New York · Private foundation
Shanken Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $426k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $147,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Shanken Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k 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 | 14 | $426k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $624k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $445k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $440k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $472k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $705k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $637k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $614k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Els for Autism Foundation | $1,241,715 | 8 | 3% |
| Congregation Emanuel | $452,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Film at Lincoln Center Inc | $374,118 | 8 | 1% |
| Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology | $272,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation | $107,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($697k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shanken Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Shanken Family Foundation
- How much does Shanken Family Foundation give?
- Shanken Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $425,938 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Shanken Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (58%), Religion (11%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Shanken Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Els for Autism Foundation ($1.2M), Congregation Emanuel ($453k), Film at Lincoln Center Inc ($374k).
- Does Shanken Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shanken Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shanken Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Shanken Family Foundation based?
- Shanken Family Foundation is based in NY.
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