California · Public charity
Shinnyo-En Foundation
Promote global peace through service by nurturing future generations through supporting community-based organizations and educational institutions that promote and engage youth in meaningful acts of service.
- $346k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $325k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Shinnyo-En Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 18 | $325k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $387k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $347k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $438k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $387k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $469k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $474k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $471k | 31% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Redwood City | $438,750 | 9 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $421,122 | 8 | n/a |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | $405,000 | 9 | 0% |
| National Youth Leadership Council | $400,000 | 9 | 19% |
| Seattle University | $355,543 | 7 | 0% |
| Youth Community Services Inc | $285,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Chapman University | $263,265 | 5 | 0% |
| Putney School Inc | $181,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Brothers on the Rise | $102,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Environmental Science Center | $92,500 | 9 | 4% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shinnyo-En 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The California Endowment · Tides Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Shinnyo-En Foundation
- How much does Shinnyo-En Foundation give?
- Shinnyo-En Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $324,500, out of $345,882 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shinnyo-En Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Youth Development (26%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Shinnyo-En Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Redwood City ($439k), Regents of the University of California at Berkeley ($421k), George Mason University Foundation Inc ($405k).
- Does Shinnyo-En Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shinnyo-En Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
- Where is Shinnyo-En Foundation based?
- Shinnyo-En Foundation is based in CA.
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