Texas · Private foundation
Shraman 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.
- $4.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
83% of Shraman Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2024
- $4.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $14,300
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $571M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Shraman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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 | 41 | $657k | 76% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $142k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $7k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $14k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarrant County College Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Houston Community College Foundation | $14,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Earth Day Texas Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trees for the Future Inc | $272 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Trees Foundation | $234 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($789k), not named here.
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Shraman Foundation
- How much does Shraman Foundation give?
- Shraman Foundation reported 42 itemized grants totaling $4,657,362, out of $4,826,735 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Shraman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Science & Tech (4%), Education (1%).
- Who are Shraman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tarrant County College Foundation ($20k), Houston Community College Foundation ($14k), Earth Day Texas Inc ($10k).
- Does Shraman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shraman 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 Shraman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Shraman Foundation based?
- Shraman Foundation is based in TX.
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