· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS WORLD COMMITTEE FOR CONSULTATION | $100,000 |
| FAITH & PLAY STORIES | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $54,700 |
| SCHOOL OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRY | $45,000 |
| FRIENDS UNITED MEETING | $39,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,500 |
| ARCH STREET MEETING HOUSE | $30,000 |
| SANDY SPRINGS FREINDS MEETING | $18,000 |
| PUBLIC FRIENDS | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPendle Hill3× · 2020–2024 · $273k · revenue +30%
- TQTHEE QUAKER PROJECT2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +316% · 84% of their budget
- SOSCHOOL OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRY3× · 2022–2025 · $174k · revenue +13% · 77% of their budget
Funded once
- WMWellesley Monthly Meeting of Friendsone grant, 2022 · $87k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $75k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the friends council on education is to provide leadership in drawing friends schools together in unity of spirit and cooperative endeavors. the council's work nurtures the quaker life of schools, strengthens the network of…
In order to promote social harmony and inter-religious understanding, Interfaith Philadelphia equips individuals and communities for interfaith engagement, builds collaborative relationships, and stands in solidarity with our diverse…
Our yearly meeting helps local quaker communities find meaning and purpose through interconnection and engagement in a larger network of friends. shared endeavors are good ways to engage with others, and there are many ways of working…
Friends rehabilitation program, inc. is a quaker-related nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide housing and social services for low and moderate income households. in addition, the corporation is a developer and manager of…
Friends place on capitol hill is a welcoming space that offers hospitality centered in peace, civic education, and justice-based advocacy for learners and leaders of all ages.
The school's mission is to provide challenging academics in a diverse environment, drawing on the quaker testimonies, or values, of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship to empower students to go out into the…
Friends center corporation seeks to be a place that nurtures awareness of the presence of god, enlivens work for peace and justice, and invites the highest aspirations of the human spirit. as an expression of the beliefs and testimonies of…
Fair food is dedicated to bringing locally grown food to the marketplace and to promoting a humane, sustainable agriculture system for the greater philadelphia region
FASE seeks to provide quality residential, social and health services to the elderly, emphasizing independence, group initiatives and quaker values of integrity, equality, peace, community and simplicity.
Friend inc community services is a multi-services social agency that supports the well-being of those in need and is committed to strengthening the lives of families and individuals living th northeastern berks county.
Provide participatory residential experience based on the religious society of friends principles, in communal household, at moderate cost; meeting space; silent meetings and communal meals; and public education and outreach
Provide Quaker based education
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Pendle Hill ↗
- Who funds THEE QUAKER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
- Who funds Quaker Voluntary Service Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Film Office ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends Fiduciary Corporation ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC FAIR HILL INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds MEDIA-PROVIDENCE FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UJIMA FRIENDS PEACE CENTER INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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