California · Private foundation
Shayne 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.
- $627k
- Granted FY2018
- 33
- Grants FY2018
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2018
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2018
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of Shayne Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Shayne Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $627k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2018
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2018
- $155,550
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2018
- States reached, FY2018
- 6
- Total assets, FY2018
- $7.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2018, 13% of the organizations Shayne Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2018 | 30 | $448k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $390k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lgbtq Fund of Vermont Incorporated | $1,422,350 | 9 | 89% |
| The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc | $421,794 | 9 | 5% |
| World Education Inc | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University School of Nashville | $166,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Meharry Medical College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple Congregation Ohabai Sholom | $91,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Vanderbilt University | $74,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Vermont Works for Women Inc | $58,217 | 3 | 3% |
| Nashville Public Television Inc | $49,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($127k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shayne Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Shayne Foundation
- How much does Shayne Foundation give?
- Shayne Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $626,685 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
- What does Shayne Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (68%), Education (12%), International (5%).
- Who are Shayne Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lgbtq Fund of Vermont Incorporated ($1.4M), The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc ($422k), World Education Inc ($175k).
- Does Shayne Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2018, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shayne 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 Shayne Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Blum Family Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is Shayne Foundation based?
- Shayne Foundation is based in CA.
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