Kansas · Private foundation
Shaw Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $85k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Shaw Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 18 | $85k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $88k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $96k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $91k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $83k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $81k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $73k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $64k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exploration Place Inc | $75,220 | 9 | 0% |
| Union Rescue Mission of Wichita Inc | $66,702 | 8 | n/a |
| Wichita Symphony Society | $58,200 | 8 | 0% |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $54,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Wichita Art Museum Inc | $50,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Orpheum Performing Arts Centre Ltd | $50,321 | 8 | 1% |
| Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Botanica Inc | $16,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Wichita State University Foundation | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mark Arts Inc | $8,400 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shaw 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: Berry Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Ima Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Annie Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Wichita Foundation · DeVore Foundation Inc · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation
How this is measured
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About Shaw Family Foundation
- How much does Shaw Family Foundation give?
- Shaw Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $85,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shaw Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (20%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Shaw Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Exploration Place Inc ($75k), Union Rescue Mission of Wichita Inc ($67k), Wichita Symphony Society ($58k).
- Does Shaw Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shaw Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shaw Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berry Foundation Inc, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353, Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Shaw Family Foundation based?
- Shaw Family Foundation is based in KS.
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