Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding
Austin, TX · EIN 27-3365638. Reported 19 grants totalling $90,238 to 19 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,738 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $7,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Asia Institute | Bozeman, MT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Karuna Center F Peacebuilding | Greenfied, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Iact | Austin, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Austin Classical Guitar Society | Austin, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caritas of Austin | Austin, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Irc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lifeworks | Austin, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Multicultural Refugee Coalition | Austin, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shanti Bhavan Childrens Project | Bellevue, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women F Women International | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yes | Berkeley, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| MEN4CHOICE | Northbrook, IL | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mobile Loaves and Fishes | Dallas, TX | $3,738 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Equity Kids | Austin, TX | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| James Dick Foundation | Round Top, TX | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Justice for All Immigrants | Houston, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| High Plains Food Bank | Amarillo, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Karuna Center F Peacebuilding
International and domestic peace initiatives through structured dialogue - Central Asia Institute
Bringing education to girls and women in the high Himalayas - Iact
Various programs to bring people of different faiths together visiting other faiths congregations dialogue etc. - Yes
Teaching leadership skills to people from different walks of life and ethnicities through "JAM" workshops to create a more harmonious work and neighborhood environment. - Lifeworks
Transitioning foster youth from foster care to independent housing and life skills. - Multicultural Refugee Coalition
Integrating refugees from different countries through language agricultural and sewing skills.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 9 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 54% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 92558, Austin, TX, 78709. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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