California · Private foundation
The Shelby and Frederick Gans 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $318k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Shelby and Frederick Gans Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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 | 30 | $1.6M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $1.4M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $985k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $926k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $857k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $811k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $140k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $229k | 83% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Ballet Association | $940,700 | 7 | 1% |
| The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute | $721,900 | 7 | 6% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $711,433 | 8 | 0% |
| Discalced Inc | $587,633 | 7 | 2% |
| Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc | $392,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Crowden Music Center | $335,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Meals on Wheels of San Francisco Inc | $241,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Alonzo King Lines Ballet | $230,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $228,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Shelby and Frederick Gans 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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Shelby and Frederick Gans Foundation
- How much does The Shelby and Frederick Gans Foundation give?
- The Shelby and Frederick Gans Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $1,660,830 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Shelby and Frederick Gans Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Shelby and Frederick Gans Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Francisco Ballet Association ($941k), The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ($722k), Smithsonian Institution ($711k).
- Does The Shelby and Frederick Gans Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shelby and Frederick Gans 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 Shelby and Frederick Gans Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Impactassetsinc, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Shelby and Frederick Gans Foundation based?
- The Shelby and Frederick Gans Foundation is based in CA.
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