· Private foundation
The Shaw Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRETHREN VILLAGE | $400,000 |
| THE LANCASTER CONSERVANCY | $398,000 |
| GETTYSBURG COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST | $150,000 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| SECHLER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MESSIAH UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Shaw Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BVBRETHREN VILLAGE7× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +44%
- GCGETTYSBURG COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +18%
- LFLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +95%
Funded once
- PFPENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -3%
- TPTHE POTTER'S HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
To preserve, steward, and connect people to the land in northern chester county pennsylvania. see additional information on schedule o.french & pickering is recognized as a leader in regional land conservation, the organization is…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
Cedar crest college is a liberal arts college primarily for women dedicated to the education of the next generation of leaders. the college prepares students for life in a global community by educating the whole student at all stages of…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
See schedule oper the bylaws of the delaware & lehigh national heritage corridor(which were updated by the merged board of the national canal musuem and the d&l), our mission is to work with government entities, non-profit organizations…
The mission of the willowsford conservancy is to protect our land and promote conservation and sustainable farming so that our community discovers a deeper connection to nature and each other.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCHES ELIZABETHTOWN AREA ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SECHLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Elizabethtown Football Club Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shaw Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shaw Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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