Colorado · Private foundation
The Shamos 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.
- $20k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Shamos Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 1 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $41k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $169k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $186k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $283k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $204k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $336k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $364k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan Counseling Center | $291,350 | 6 | 7% |
| St Johns College in Santa Fe | $250,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Colorado Academy | $225,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Elizabeth's School | $96,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Opera Colorado | $95,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Yale University | $32,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Theatre Communications Group Inc | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Human Rights First | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dalton Schools Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($282k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Shamos Family 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Margulf Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Boettcher Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
How this is measured
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About The Shamos Family Foundation
- How much does The Shamos Family Foundation give?
- The Shamos Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Shamos Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (30%), Health (18%).
- Who are The Shamos Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Samaritan Counseling Center ($291k), St Johns College in Santa Fe ($250k), Colorado Academy ($225k).
- Does The Shamos Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shamos 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 The Shamos Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is The Shamos Family Foundation based?
- The Shamos Family Foundation is based in CO.
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