Washington · Private foundation
The Jon and Mary Shirley 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.
- $9.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 50 | $9.7M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $2.7M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $2.4M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $3.0M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $2.3M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $5.2M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $4.3M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $1.4M | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Art Museum | $10,557,024 | 9 | 7% |
| Calder Foundation | $5,235,405 | 6 | 6% |
| United Way of King County | $2,125,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Hill School | $1,055,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $910,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $665,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $550,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Artist Trust | $525,000 | 9 | 7% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $430,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 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: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · The Conru Foundation · The Bernstein Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Klorfine Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Grousemont Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation with peer funders
About The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation
- How much does The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation give?
- The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $9,656,920 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Education (24%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Seattle Art Museum ($11M), Calder Foundation ($5.2M), United Way of King County ($2.1M).
- Does The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jon and Mary Shirley 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 The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Artsfund.
- Where is The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation based?
- The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation is based in WA.
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