New York · Private foundation
The Shanks 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.
- $42k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $213k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Shanks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 11 | $42k | 91% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $37k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $15k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $57,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Operation Masks Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| High Hopes Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Equal Vote Coalition | $2,500 | 1 | 3% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| National Pku Alliance Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $57,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Operation Masks Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| High Hopes Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Equal Vote Coalition | $2,500 | 1 | 3% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| National Pku Alliance Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| California Western School of Law | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Shanks 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: American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Shanks Family Foundation
- How much does The Shanks Family Foundation give?
- The Shanks Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $42,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Shanks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (36%), Philanthropy (10%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Shanks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($57k), United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee Inc ($6k), Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation ($6k).
- Does The Shanks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shanks 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 Shanks Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Shanks Family Foundation based?
- The Shanks Family Foundation is based in NY.
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