Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Sheftel Foundation Inc
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.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $529k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations The Sheftel Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 25 | $30k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $29k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $19k | 65% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $23k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $31k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $29k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $24k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $18k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nephcure Kidney International | $48,325 | 9 | 0% |
| Congregation Sha Aray Shalom | $14,671 | 8 | n/a |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Sports Center for the Disabled Inc | $7,000 | 8 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory at Gothic | $5,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $4,518 | 4 | 0% |
| Mountain Family Center | $4,500 | 5 | 0% |
| National Brain Tumor Society Inc | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sheftel Foundation Inc 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 · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sheftel Foundation Inc
- How much does The Sheftel Foundation Inc give?
- The Sheftel Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $35,190 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sheftel Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (26%), Religion (9%).
- Who are The Sheftel Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nephcure Kidney International ($48k), Congregation Sha Aray Shalom ($15k), Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ($9k).
- Does The Sheftel Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sheftel Foundation Inc 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 Sheftel Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Sheftel Foundation Inc based?
- The Sheftel Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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