Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Shaw Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $247k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Shaw Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $1.5M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $1.3M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $1.1M | 45% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $1.3M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabethtown College | $2,413,400 | 6 | 1% |
| Brethren Village | $2,101,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Gettysburg College | $2,082,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Lancaster Farmland Trust | $1,098,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $660,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Lancaster County Conservancy | $463,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Rock Ford Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 4% |
| United Churches Elizabethtown Area | $30,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabethtown College | $2,413,400 | 6 | 1% |
| Brethren Village | $2,101,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Gettysburg College | $2,082,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Lancaster Farmland Trust | $1,098,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $660,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Lancaster County Conservancy | $463,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Rock Ford Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 4% |
| United Churches Elizabethtown Area | $30,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sechler Family Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Messiah University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Elizabethtown Football Club Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Church of the Covenant | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($371k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Shaw 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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Shaw Family Foundation
- How much does The Shaw Family Foundation give?
- The Shaw Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $1,338,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Shaw Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Human Services (22%), Environment (17%).
- Who are The Shaw Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Elizabethtown College ($2.4M), Brethren Village ($2.1M), Gettysburg College ($2.1M).
- Does The Shaw Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shaw Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Shaw Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Shaw Family Foundation based?
- The Shaw Family Foundation is based in PA.
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