Delaware · Private foundation
Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd
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.
- $414k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $39,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 9 | $414k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $681k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $690k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $383k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $189k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $697k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $176k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pendle Hill | $272,952 | 3 | 4% |
| Thee Quaker Project | $250,000 | 2 | 84% |
| School of the Spirit Ministry | $174,088 | 3 | 77% |
| Earlham College Inc | $166,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Faith & Play Stories | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Quaker Voluntary Service Inc | $140,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Friends Publishing Corporation | $125,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Greater Philadelphia Film Office | $120,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Beacon Hill Friends House Inc | $87,500 | 2 | 8% |
| Friends General Conference | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pendle Hill | $272,952 | 3 | 4% |
| Thee Quaker Project | $250,000 | 2 | 84% |
| School of the Spirit Ministry | $174,088 | 3 | 77% |
| Earlham College Inc | $166,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Faith & Play Stories | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Quaker Voluntary Service Inc | $140,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Friends Publishing Corporation | $125,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Greater Philadelphia Film Office | $120,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Beacon Hill Friends House Inc | $87,500 | 2 | 8% |
| Friends General Conference | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends United Meeting Inc | $39,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Westtown School | $28,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Historic Fair Hill Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Philabundance | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Home | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Media-Providence Friends School | $19,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Public Friends | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends Service Committee | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Action Agency of Delaware County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ujima Friends Peace Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Caring for Friends | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Making a Change Group | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Feast of Justice | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heeding Gods Call | $4,500 | 2 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 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: Friends Fiduciary Corporation · Snave Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Friends Foundation for the Aging · Obadiah Browns Benevolent Fund · D'Olier Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd
- How much does Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd give?
- Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd reported 9 grants totaling $414,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Arts & Culture (10%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Pendle Hill ($273k), Thee Quaker Project ($250k), School of the Spirit Ministry ($174k).
- Does Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd 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 Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Friends Fiduciary Corporation, Snave Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd based?
- Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd is based in DE.
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