Texas · Private foundation
Shield-Ayres Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 121
- Grants FY2024
- 114
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 112 to 126
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $19M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Shield-Ayres Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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 | 113 | $2.1M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 114 | $1.4M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 112 | $1.5M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 119 | $2.3M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 126 | $2.5M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 125 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Foundation at Shield Ranch | $1,700,000 | 3 | 33% |
| Bread for the World Institute | $190,000 | 4 | 1% |
| El Buen Samaritano Inc | $150,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Texas Land Trust Council | $140,000 | 6 | 13% |
| The Great Springs Project Inc (Audit) | $110,000 | 5 | 2% |
| American Youthworks | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center | $105,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Land Trust Alliance Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $96,666 | 3 | 0% |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 199 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shield-Ayres Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 187 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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Topfer Family Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation
How this is measured
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About Shield-Ayres Foundation
- How much does Shield-Ayres Foundation give?
- Shield-Ayres Foundation reported 121 grants totaling $2,137,925 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 112 and 126 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Shield-Ayres Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (16%), Environment (15%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Shield-Ayres Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Foundation at Shield Ranch ($1.7M), Bread for the World Institute ($190k), El Buen Samaritano Inc ($150k).
- Does Shield-Ayres Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shield-Ayres Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shield-Ayres Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, St David's Foundation, United Way for Greater Austin.
- Where is Shield-Ayres Foundation based?
- Shield-Ayres Foundation is based in TX.
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