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The Shipley Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$219k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$954k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Shipley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$219k7%
FY202415$184k27%
FY202315$269k20%
FY202212$269k8%
FY202117$411k47%
FY202013$383k31%
FY20199$310k44%
FY20187$270k29%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.6MArts & Culture$350kHuman Services$170kHealth$99kHousing & Shelter$55kCommunity Improvement$35kRecreation & Sports$35kCivil Rights$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
York College of Pennsylvania$640,00070%
Pennsylvania State University$620,0008n/a
Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center Inc$60,00030%
Keystone Kidspace$60,00064%
Pennsylvania Orphan Care Alliance$50,0001n/a
Logos Academy$40,00050%
Jewish Community Centre of York Pennsylvania$40,00020%
Leg Up Farm Inc$40,00050%
York City Parks Conservancy$35,00062%
Keystone Christian Academy$30,0001n/a
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($640k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Shipley Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYork College of Pennsylvania: $640,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetStrand-Capitol Performing Arts Center Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKeystone Kidspace: $60,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetLogos Academy: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Community Centre of York Pennsylvania: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLeg Up Farm Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYork City Parks Conservancy: $35,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of South Central Pa: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYork Academy Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCrispus Attucks Association of York Pa: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCornerstone Youth Home: $25,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetYork County History Center: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSteam Into History Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKeystones Oral Histories: $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetBell Socialization Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYork Community Resource Center: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHoffman Homes Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYork County Library System: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPink Power: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

York County Community FoundationPA36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: York County Community Foundation · Powder Mill Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · Kinsley Foundation · The Graham Foundation · The Stewart Foundation · United Way of York County · White Rose Leadership Institute · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Shipley Family Foundation

How much does The Shipley Family Foundation give?
The Shipley Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $219,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Shipley Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Arts & Culture (14%), Human Services (7%).
Who are The Shipley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: York College of Pennsylvania ($640k), Pennsylvania State University ($620k), Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center Inc ($60k).
Does The Shipley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Shipley Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Shipley Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include York County Community Foundation, Powder Mill Foundation, The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation.
Where is The Shipley Family Foundation based?
The Shipley Family Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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