Virginia · Private foundation
The Shen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations The Shen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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 | 28 | $1.2M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $1.1M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $1.2M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.2M | 5% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $2.5M | 14% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $1.8M | 41% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York City Ballet Inc | $1,992,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc | $1,912,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Yale University | $738,020 | 6 | n/a |
| The Washington Ballet | $325,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Packer Collegiate Institute | $320,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | $316,550 | 2 | 0% |
| Princeton Ballet Society | $302,500 | 4 | 2% |
| New York City Center Inc | $285,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Roundabout Theatre Company Inc | $225,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Yale University | $210,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Shen Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jerome Robbins Foundation · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Michael Tuch Foundation Inc · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
About The Shen Family Foundation
- How much does The Shen Family Foundation give?
- The Shen Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,230,835 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Shen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (80%), Education (12%), Health (5%).
- Who are The Shen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York City Ballet Inc ($2.0M), Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc ($1.9M), Yale University ($738k).
- Does The Shen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shen 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 Shen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shubert Foundation Inc, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is The Shen Family Foundation based?
- The Shen Family Foundation is based in VA.
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