Shook Hardy & Bacon Foundation
This organization is a private foundation dedicated to supporting educational initiatives, primarily through scholarships for law schools. Its mission centers around enhancing access to legal education, thereby fostering the development of future legal professionals. The foundation predominantly serves students pursuing legal studies at various universities and law schools across the United States. It has a strong commitment to higher education, as evidenced by its consistent funding of scholarships to institutions such as the University of Miami School of Law and the University of Missouri Law School Foundation.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A law-school scholarship fund or university endowment (or a fiscal-sponsoring charity) that can accept restricted scholarship awards and that can be nominated or otherwise brought to the foundation’s attention.
Good Fit
- • Programs that administer law-student scholarships at accredited law schools or university endowments.
- • Ability to accept $5K–$10K scholarship awards and to report on scholarship use.
- • Existing relationship or nomination pathway from board members, trustees, or affiliated institutions.
- • Located in or connected to states the foundation has funded (MO, CA, FL, KS).
Geography
Giving in the latest year spanned four states (foundation state plus three others), showing a multi-state footprint rather than a single-city or single-county focus.
Recipient Variety
The latest year shows seven distinct independent recipients (mostly university law-school funds), so the number of supported organizations is moderate, but mission focus is narrow (scholarships for law students).
New Applicants
Direct evidence of recipient turnover is limited but the latest year included six new grantees, indicating new entrants are added; however the foundation states it funds only preselected grantees and there is no public application portal, so unsolicited applicants would likely face friction.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
