Texas · Private foundation
The Shaver 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.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Shaver Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 22 | $78k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $77k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $56k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $36k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $37k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $38k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $46k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $52k | 26% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $124,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Big Fish Foundation | $40,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Agnes Irwin School | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University | $10,568 | 5 | 0% |
| North Houston Catholic High School | $10,047 | 6 | 0% |
| Villanova University | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $6,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $6,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Star of Hope Mission | $6,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($104k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Shaver Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Marek Family Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · United Way Worldwide
How this is measured
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About The Shaver Family Foundation
- How much does The Shaver Family Foundation give?
- The Shaver Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $77,797 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Shaver Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Education (23%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Shaver Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ducks Unlimited Inc ($124k), Big Fish Foundation ($41k), The Agnes Irwin School ($23k).
- Does The Shaver Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shaver 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 Shaver Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc, Marek Family Foundation.
- Where is The Shaver Family Foundation based?
- The Shaver Family Foundation is based in TX.
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