New York · Private foundation
The Shin Creek Trust
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.
- $268k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Shin Creek Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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 | 32 | $263k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $243k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $273k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $220k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $313k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $219k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $187k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $205k | 54% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radio Workshop US Inc | $393,608 | 9 | 22% |
| The Brotherhood Sister Sol Inc | $240,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated | $170,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Lawrence University | $120,200 | 8 | 0% |
| Global Goods Partners Inc | $98,200 | 9 | 4% |
| University of Richmond | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Billion Oyster Project Inc | $76,500 | 5 | 0% |
| International Cardiac Alliance Inc | $40,602 | 9 | 1% |
| The Lunchbox Fund | $39,675 | 8 | 2% |
| World Bicycle Relief Nfp | $30,515 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($539k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Shin Creek Trust 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: The New York Community Trust · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Express Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Soros Fund Charitable Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
About The Shin Creek Trust
- How much does The Shin Creek Trust give?
- The Shin Creek Trust reported 34 grants totaling $268,074 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Shin Creek Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Shin Creek Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Radio Workshop US Inc ($394k), The Brotherhood Sister Sol Inc ($241k), Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated ($170k).
- Does The Shin Creek Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shin Creek Trust 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 Shin Creek Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Viking Global Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is The Shin Creek Trust based?
- The Shin Creek Trust is based in NY.
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