Florida · Private foundation
Shenk Family 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.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Shenk Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 12 | $66k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $52k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $67k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $68k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $62k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $47k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $39k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $55k | 22% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generation Hope | $48,775 | 6 | 0% |
| Womens Impact Fund | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Global CHE Enterprises | $38,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences | $36,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Venice Presbyterian Church | $35,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Services Along the Nile International Inc | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Untold Inc | $17,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte | $12,020 | 2 | 0% |
| Building Hope in the City | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc | $9,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shenk Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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: The Cleveland Foundation · In His Steps Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
About Shenk Family Foundation
- How much does Shenk Family Foundation give?
- Shenk Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $66,260 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shenk Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Health (27%), Education (17%).
- Who are Shenk Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Generation Hope ($49k), Womens Impact Fund ($40k), Global CHE Enterprises ($39k).
- Does Shenk Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shenk Family 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 Shenk Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, In His Steps Foundation, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Shenk Family Foundation based?
- Shenk Family Foundation is based in FL.
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