Nevada · Private foundation
The Shuster Family Foundation
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.
- $132k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 57
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The Shuster Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 12 | $70k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $107k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $104k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $131k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $125k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $91k | 49% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $93k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $65k | 97% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Bat Yahm | $438,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Southern Methodist University | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mater Dei High School Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange | $22,500 | 4 | n/a |
| The Just One Project | $17,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Keep Memory Alive | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tyler Robinson Foundation | $9,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Vista del Mar Child and Family Services | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Breakaway Cycling Inc | $6,875 | 3 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $6,125 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Shuster Family Foundation 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.
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How this is measured
About The Shuster Family Foundation
- How much does The Shuster Family Foundation give?
- The Shuster Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $131,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Shuster Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Religion (31%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are The Shuster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple Bat Yahm ($438k), Southern Methodist University ($80k), Mater Dei High School Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange ($23k).
- Does The Shuster Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shuster 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 Shuster Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gordon Foundation, NV Energy Charitable Foundation, Wynn Resorts Foundation.
- Where is The Shuster Family Foundation based?
- The Shuster Family Foundation is based in NV.
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