Texas · Private foundation
Shelton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $876k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $166,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Shelton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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 | 30 | $851k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $953k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $1.1M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $794k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $792k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $908k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $771k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 63 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abilene Education Foundation | $990,550 | 6 | 44% |
| Kenley School Inc | $506,000 | 8 | 17% |
| National Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat | $350,100 | 8 | 11% |
| Food Bank of West Central Texas | $320,000 | 8 | 2% |
| BCFS Health and Human Services | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rescue the Animals Inc | $226,000 | 8 | 8% |
| McMurry University | $206,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Restored Hope Ministries Inc | $200,000 | 8 | 4% |
| The Tstc Foundation | $180,000 | 4 | 3% |
| United Way of Abilene Inc | $134,700 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shelton Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · The Legett Foundation · Barber Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · United Way of Abilene Inc · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Directors Foundation
How this is measured
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About Shelton Family Foundation
- How much does Shelton Family Foundation give?
- Shelton Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $875,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shelton Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (24%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Shelton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Abilene Education Foundation ($991k), Kenley School Inc ($506k), National Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat ($350k).
- Does Shelton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shelton Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shelton Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dian Graves Owen Foundation, Community Foundation of Abilene, The Legett Foundation.
- Where is Shelton Family Foundation based?
- Shelton Family Foundation is based in TX.
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