Nevada · Private foundation
The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $672k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $636,019
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $308k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation 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; $28k 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 | 16 | $672k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $51k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $132k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $49k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $90k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $74k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $38k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $34k | 31% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Shirley Family Foundation | $636,019 | 1 | 97% |
| Cabrillo College Foundation | $150,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Darby Rodeo Association | $58,150 | 8 | 7% |
| Sigma Alpha Chapter of Omega Nu | $33,300 | 7 | 4% |
| Safe Haven Wildlife Sanctuary | $25,500 | 5 | 1% |
| University of Houston Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pepper Foundation | $20,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Bitter Root Land Trust | $16,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc | $12,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($122k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Crystal Family Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Rapp Family Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation give?
- The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $672,169 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (55%), Education (17%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
- Who are The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Shirley Family Foundation ($636k), Cabrillo College Foundation ($151k), Darby Rodeo Association ($58k).
- Does The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Crystal Family Foundation, Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation, Rapp Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation based?
- The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation is based in NV.
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