Texas · Private foundation
Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $468k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $95,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 23 | $468k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $435k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $413k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $463k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $403k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $396k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $368k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $359k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 de Hirsch Sinai | $855,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Seattle University | $717,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $477,000 | 9 | n/a |
| College Success Foundation | $107,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Northwest Immigrant Rights Project | $99,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Seattle Children's Foundation | $96,300 | 8 | 0% |
| The Mockingbird Society | $92,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Service | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Sophia Way | $87,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($195k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust 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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Samis Foundation · Medina Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · Kawabe Memorial Fund · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · American Gift Fund · Gates Foundation
How this is measured
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About Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust
- How much does Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust give?
- Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust reported 23 grants totaling $468,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Religion (30%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple de Hirsch Sinai ($855k), Seattle University ($717k), University of Washington ($477k).
- Does Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Samis Foundation, Medina Foundation.
- Where is Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust based?
- Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust is based in TX.
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