Kansas · Private foundation
The Shumaker Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 93
- Grants FY2024
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $37,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 90
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations The Shumaker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k 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 | 90 | $1.0M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 90 | $1.0M | 37% |
| FY2022 | 88 | $1.1M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $891k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 82 | $919k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 85 | $799k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 69 | $750k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 65 | $631k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridging the Gap Inc | $322,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Kansas City Pet Project | $195,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation | $152,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Newhouse Inc | $151,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Douglas County Casa Program Inc | $143,500 | 8 | 7% |
| Green Works In Kansas City | $140,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Rose Brooks Center Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc | $116,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Jackson County Casa | $112,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Artstech | $108,000 | 6 | 3% |
Show all 169 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Shumaker Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 145 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: Health Forward Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The H & R Block Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Sherman Family Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Commerce Bancshares Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Shumaker Family Foundation
- How much does The Shumaker Family Foundation give?
- The Shumaker Family Foundation reported 93 grants totaling $1,032,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Shumaker Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (16%), Human Services (13%), Environment (12%).
- Who are The Shumaker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bridging the Gap Inc ($323k), Kansas City Pet Project ($195k), Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation ($152k).
- Does The Shumaker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shumaker Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Shumaker Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Health Forward Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.
- Where is The Shumaker Family Foundation based?
- The Shumaker Family Foundation is based in KS.
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