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Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc

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.

$673k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
55
Grants FY2025
47
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
36 to 47
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyReligionRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving54$668k48%
FY202447$341k38%
FY202336$369k56%
FY202237$289k30%
FY202140$514k40%
FY202036$160k39%
FY201937$255k32%
FY201842$192k45%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.3MHealth$816kHuman Services$275kReligion$214kRecreation & Sports$99kYouth Development$85kHousing & Shelter$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$39kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc$400,00060%
St Timothy Catholic Church$100,0003n/a
Gloria M Silverio Foundation$69,20094%
Operation Healing Forces Inc$65,00060%
Sisters of St Thomas Aquinas Inc$48,5005n/a
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$41,00030%
Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc$37,50030%
Gold Shield Foundation Inc$35,70079%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$35,0002n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$33,57530%
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All grantees of Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc$400,00060%
St Timothy Catholic Church$100,0003n/a
Gloria M Silverio Foundation$69,20094%
Operation Healing Forces Inc$65,00060%
Sisters of St Thomas Aquinas Inc$48,5005n/a
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$41,00030%
Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc$37,50030%
Gold Shield Foundation Inc$35,70079%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$35,0002n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$33,57530%
Tampa Bay Area Chiefs of Police Foundation Inc$33,00097%
Quantum Leap Farm Inc$30,40081%
Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc$27,50060%
Mary Lees House Inc$22,51581%
Bullard Family Foundation Inc$22,50041%
Cardiac Society for Bridging Medical Silos Inc$20,000210%
Desire Street Ministries$18,00031%
General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum$17,50050%
Wuerffel Foundation Inc$13,75022%
Diocese of St Petersburg$12,0006n/a
Trinity Cafe Inc$9,35521%
Score International Inc$8,50030%
The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc$8,11060%
The Libertore Fund for Children Inc$8,00041%
Cristo Rey New York High School$7,50040%
Gary Sinise Foundation$7,00030%
Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc$5,90040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,75030%
Bible Study Media Inc$5,5002n/a
Nova Southeastern University Inc$5,00010%
The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc$5,00010%
New York Yankees Foundation Inc$5,00011%
New Life Village Inc$5,00010%
Stanley British Primary School$3,00030%
Tampa Lighthouse for the Blind Inc$3,00020%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$2,5001n/a
National Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Florida Council on Economic Education Inc$1,20010%
Florida Rising Stars Foundation Inc$1,1502n/a
Positive Coaching Alliance$1,10010%
The DEA Educational Foundation$1,00010%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,00010%
St Mary's Community Services$1,00010%
Tampa Firefighters Charity Fund Inc$1,00011%
The Winged Foot Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$1,00010%
Hollyrod Foundation$1,00010%
The Victory Ship Inc$1,00010%
Operation Wounded Warriors Inc$1,00010%
Beat Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Friends of Golf Inc$1,0001n/a
Appreciate Your Service Corporation$1,00011%
Corbett Preparatory School of Ids Inc$1,00010%
The Club Inc of Tampa Bay$1,0001n/a
Tampa Police Benevolent Association Charity Fund Inc$60021%
Children's Health Defense$50010%
Covenant House$50010%
Marion County Children's Alliance Inc$50010%
Northwest Tampa Church of Christ$5001n/a
South Brevard Women's Center Inc$50010%
Guiding Star Tampa$5001n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$50010%
Starting Right Now$3501n/a
Friends of Joshua House Foundation$30010%
Captain Billek Foundation Inc$25011%
PTA Florida Congress Yvonne McKitrick Elementary PTA$25010%
Veterans Golf Club of Southern Oregon$20010%
Outreach to America's Youth Inc$15010%
Play for Pink Inc$15010%
Mjh Children's Charities Inc$1501n/a
Seminole High School Baseball Boosters$1501n/a
Okaloosa AIDS Support and Informational Services Inc- Oasis$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 100 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHoratio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc: $400,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGloria M Silverio Foundation: $69,200 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetOperation Healing Forces Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGold Shield Foundation Inc: $35,700 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $33,575 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTampa Bay Area Chiefs of Police Foundation Inc: $33,000 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetQuantum Leap Farm Inc: $30,400 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc: $27,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMary Lees House Inc: $22,515 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBullard Family Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCardiac Society for Bridging Medical Silos Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetDesire Street Ministries: $18,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGeneral Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum: $17,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWuerffel Foundation Inc: $13,750 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTrinity Cafe Inc: $9,355 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetScore International Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Spring of Tampa Bay Inc: $8,110 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Libertore Fund for Children Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCristo Rey New York High School: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy Prep Center of Tampa Inc: $5,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Yankees Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNew Life Village Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStanley British Primary School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTampa Lighthouse for the Blind Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Council on Economic Education Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPositive Coaching Alliance: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe DEA Educational Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Community Services: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTampa Firefighters Charity Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Winged Foot Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHollyrod Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Victory Ship Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Wounded Warriors Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBeat Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAppreciate Your Service Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCorbett Preparatory School of Ids Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTampa Police Benevolent Association Charity Fund Inc: $600 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetChildren's Health Defense: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 58.

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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.

Community Foundation of Tampa Bay IncFL28.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Lightning Foundation · Mary & Bob Sierra Family Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc · The Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring Inc · Chris T Sullivan Foundation Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc

How much does Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc give?
Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc reported 55 grants totaling $673,333 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (27%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc ($400k), St Timothy Catholic Church ($100k), Gloria M Silverio Foundation ($69k).
Does Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc 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 Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc, Lightning Foundation, Mary & Bob Sierra Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc based?
Tom and Kathy Shannon Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 174 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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