Maryland · Private foundation
William J Shaw 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.
- $170k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
83% of William J Shaw Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year William J Shaw Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $170k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations William J Shaw Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $170k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $276k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $198k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $380k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $156k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $346k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $176k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $253k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dvs Legal Services Inc | $375,000 | 9 | 59% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington | $340,159 | 4 | 0% |
| Academy of the Holy Cross Inc | $262,045 | 5 | n/a |
| All About U Adoptions Inc | $225,000 | 8 | 7% |
| St Bartholomew Catholic Church | $150,565 | 4 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $147,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Connelly School of the Holy Child | $117,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc | $103,752 | 1 | 3% |
| Bullis School | $72,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William J Shaw Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
About William J Shaw Family Foundation
- How much does William J Shaw Family Foundation give?
- William J Shaw Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $169,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does William J Shaw Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (32%), Human Services (19%), Education (16%).
- Who are William J Shaw Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dvs Legal Services Inc ($375k), Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington ($340k), Academy of the Holy Cross Inc ($262k).
- Does William J Shaw Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William J Shaw 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 William J Shaw Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
- Where is William J Shaw Family Foundation based?
- William J Shaw Family Foundation is based in MD.
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