Who are Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Central Asia Institute ($31k), Creative Action ($25k), The Refugee Collective ($24k).

Does Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Shield-Ayres Foundation, United Way for Greater Austin.

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Texas · Private foundation

Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$99k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 19
Grants FY2025: 19
Organizations funded FY2024: 21%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 21; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $2.5M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalReligionPublic Safety & DisasterHealthCivil RightsEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	19	$99k	21%
FY2024	19	$90k	21%
FY2023	17	$89k	24%
FY2022	21	$81k	29%
FY2021	19	$71k	32%
FY2020	21	$60k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$178kArts & Culture$49kYouth Development$43kReligion$43kHuman Services$37kCommunity Improvement$35kHousing & Shelter$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kOther$0

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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Central Asia Institute	$30,500	5	0%
Creative Action	$25,000	4	0%
The Refugee Collective	$24,000	6	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$23,500	6	0%
Austin Classical Guitar Society	$23,000	6	0%
Women for Women International	$22,300	5	0%
Caritas of Austin	$22,000	6	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc	$20,000	3	1%
Shanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc	$19,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Central Asia Institute	$30,500	5	0%
Creative Action	$25,000	4	0%
The Refugee Collective	$24,000	6	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$23,500	6	0%
Austin Classical Guitar Society	$23,000	6	0%
Women for Women International	$22,300	5	0%
Caritas of Austin	$22,000	6	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc	$20,000	3	1%
Shanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc	$19,000	4	0%
United States Association for UNHCR	$13,000	4	0%
James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts	$11,500	4	0%
Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc	$10,738	3	0%
Interfaith Action of Central Texas	$10,000	2	n/a
The American India Foundation	$9,384	2	0%
Anthropos Arts	$8,500	3	2%
Health in Harmony	$5,000	1	0%
Unfinished International	$3,811	2	n/a
Equity Kids	$3,500	1	6%
Museum at Eldridge Street	$3,000	1	0%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Texas Tribune Inc	$3,000	1	n/a
Justice For All Immigrants	$2,500	1	0%
Huston-Tillotson University	$2,500	1	0%
Austin Region Jfon	$2,500	1	n/a
Girlforward	$2,323	1	0%
Youth and Family Alliance	$2,125	1	0%
Rappahannock Tribe Foundation	$2,000	1	2%
United States Fund for Unicef	$2,000	1	0%
Lulac Institute Inc	$2,000	1	0%
National Fair Housing Alliance	$2,000	1	0%
High Plains Food Bank	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($155k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · St David's Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Seawell Elam Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Moody Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding

How much does Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding give?: Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding reported 19 grants totaling $98,823 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (36%), Arts & Culture (10%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Central Asia Institute ($31k), Creative Action ($25k), The Refugee Collective ($24k).
Does Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Shield-Ayres Foundation, United Way for Greater Austin.
Where is Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding based?: Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding is based in TX.