The Shanfield Family Foundation concentrates its giving on a very small set of community-focused nonprofits, providing multi-thousand-dollar grants—often repeated—to organizations carrying out direct-service charitable work. Their largest recipients are grassroots entities that appear to deliver social support and nutrition/healthy‑living programs, suggesting an emphasis on community welfare and basic needs rather than broad institutional philanthropy.
Concentrated and relationship-driven: a handful of relatively large grants (several six-figure awards in aggregate) to a small number of repeat grantees, favoring operating/program support over one-off, widely distributed gifts.
Shanfield Family Foundation’s recent giving is defined by repeated support for a small number of local nonprofits, including a $100,000 grant in 2025 to Emanuel Jackson Sr Project Inc and a $60,000 grant the same year to Eat Better Live Better Inc. The foundation’s grants are framed as support “to carry on charitable organization’s activities,” which points to flexible backing for core operations rather than a narrow project-only approach. Across the latest grants on file, the pattern is consistent: a few community-based organizations receive substantial awards over multiple years, with Emanuel Jackson Sr Project Inc appearing in both 2024 and 2025 and Eat Better Live Better Inc appearing in 2024 and 2025. That repeated support suggests relationships built around continuity rather than one-time transactions. The recipients named in the recent grants list also indicate the kind of work the foundation backs: direct community services and basic-needs programming delivered by small nonprofits. The foundation’s public footprint is compact, but the dollar amounts are meaningful relative to that size, reinforcing a grantmaking style centered on concentrated local support.
The foundation’s cause areas cluster around direct community service. In one stream of giving, it supported Emanuel Jackson Sr Project Inc with $100,000 in 2025 for the organization’s charitable activities, following a $62,500 grant in 2024 for the same purpose. Another line of support went to Eat Better Live Better Inc, which received $60,000 in 2025 and $25,000 in 2024, also to carry on its charitable activities. The existing focus areas point to nutrition, healthy-eating education, and food access programs, and the grant record is consistent with that emphasis on basic needs. The pattern also shows general operating or unrestricted support for small local nonprofits, since the stated purpose is broad rather than tied to a single project. Overall, the foundation backs community-based organizations that deliver practical social support.
Typical grant size is tightly clustered: the p25 is $50,000, the median is $60,000, and the p75 is $62,500. That narrow spread indicates a fairly consistent award range, with one larger outlier at $100,000. The recent record also shows repeat support across years, especially for the same organizations appearing in 2024 and 2025. The foundation appears to function as a family foundation, and the grant language points to unrestricted or core operating support rather than project-specific funding. No application process is described in the data provided.
$160K
$2.1M
$82K
$165K
Most grants fall between $50K and $63K, with a median of $60K.
25th Percentile
$50K
Median
$60K
75th Percentile
$63K
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Notable grantees: Emanuel Jackson Sr Project / Emanuel Jackson Sr Project Inc, Eat Better Live Better Inc, (Representative small/local direct-service nonprofits)
Grantmaking is entirely local and entirely in Florida: 100% of grants went to recipients in the HQ state, which is also the top state by grant count. The recent grants are concentrated in two South Florida cities, Boynton Beach and Delray Beach. Boynton Beach appears in the larger Emanuel Jackson Sr Project Inc awards, while Delray Beach appears in the Eat Better Live Better Inc grants and in one earlier Emanuel Jackson Sr Project listing. The recipient-country distribution is fully U.S.-based, with 5 grants in the United States.
It supports small community-based nonprofits doing direct-service charitable work. The recent grants list includes Emanuel Jackson Sr Project Inc and Eat Better Live Better Inc, and the grant purposes are broad, pointing to core support for their activities rather than narrow project funding.
Its grant sizes are fairly concentrated around a mid-$50,000 to low-$60,000 range. The provided distribution shows a p25 of $50,000, a median of $60,000, and a p75 of $62,500.
Yes. Emanuel Jackson Sr Project Inc appears in 2024 and 2025, and Eat Better Live Better Inc appears in 2024 and 2025. That repeated pattern suggests ongoing relationships with a small set of local nonprofits.
Its giving is local and entirely in Florida. All 5 recent grants went to recipients in the United States, and 100% of grants were awarded to organizations in Florida.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMANUEL JACKSON SR PROJECT INC | BOYNTON BEACH, FL | $100,000 | 2025 | TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES |
| EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER INC | DELRAY BEACH, FL | $60,000 | 2025 | TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES |
| EMANUEL JACKSON SR PROJECT INC | BOYNTON BEACH, FL | $62,500 | 2024 | TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES |
| EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER INC | DELRAY BEACH, FL | $25,000 | 2024 | TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES |
| EMANUAL JACKSON SR PROJECT | DELRAY BEACH, FL | $50,000 | 2023 | TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES |
EMANUEL JACKSON SR PROJECT INC
$100,000TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES
EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER INC
$60,000TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES
TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES
EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER INC
$25,000TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES
TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION'S ACTIVITIES