California · Private foundation
Shellbrook Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $36k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $897k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Shellbrook Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $31k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $23k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $28k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $22k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $31k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $23k | 72% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $17k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Taft School Corporation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Montecito Union School Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Yale University | $11,693 | 3 | n/a |
| Yale University | $9,193 | 2 | n/a |
| Cate School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Laguna Blanca School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Puppy Jake Foundation | $3,625 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shellbrook 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Www Foundation · Manitou Fund · McNabb Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Shellbrook Foundation
- How much does Shellbrook Foundation give?
- Shellbrook Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $36,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Shellbrook Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (71%), Arts & Culture (7%), Food & Nutrition (5%).
- Who are Shellbrook Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: President and Fellows of Middlebury College ($15k), The Taft School Corporation ($15k), Montecito Union School Foundation ($15k).
- Does Shellbrook Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shellbrook 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 Shellbrook Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is Shellbrook Foundation based?
- Shellbrook Foundation is based in CA.
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