Colorado · Private foundation
Shamrock Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $361k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Shamrock Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $361k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $296k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $280k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $335k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $577k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $182k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $293k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $423k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Mill Dog Rescue | $627,250 | 4 | 17% |
| Helping Hands Ministries Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Institute for Creation Research | $400,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Life Network | $175,000 | 2 | 1% |
| National Christian Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado State University | $91,050 | 6 | n/a |
| Vista Grande Baptist Church | $31,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Focus on the Family | $30,500 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $24,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $23,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($768k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shamrock Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · El Pomar Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Shamrock Foundation
- How much does Shamrock Foundation give?
- Shamrock Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $361,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shamrock Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Education (23%), Animals (23%).
- Who are Shamrock Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Mill Dog Rescue ($627k), Helping Hands Ministries Inc ($600k), Institute for Creation Research ($400k).
- Does Shamrock Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shamrock Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shamrock Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Pikes Peak Community Foundation, Servant Foundation.
- Where is Shamrock Foundation based?
- Shamrock Foundation is based in CO.
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