Gwynne Shotwell
Profile Summary
Gwynne Shotwell is a Texas-based technology executive, born in 1963, with an estimated net worth of ~$1.2B RTB. News coverage identifies her as president of SpaceX NewsAPI.
Business & SEC Activity
Shotwell was discussed in coverage of SpaceX's first earnings call alongside Elon Musk, with the reporting describing her role in explaining the company's activities on Earth NewsAPI.
Philanthropy
The Shotwell Foundation, based in Hurst, Texas, is listed with $0 in assets, revenue, expenses, and grants paid in the available foundation record ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
FEC records show at least 100 federal contributions in the most recent 100 records on file, totaling $88,172; these sampled records are not her complete contribution history FEC. The sample's party breakdown was $39,372 to Unknown, $29,400 to Republican recipients, and $19,400 to Democratic recipients FEC. The largest listed recipients were Space Exploration Technologies Corp. PAC ($31,872), Ken Calvert for Congress Committee ($8,300), Friends of Maria ($6,600), Friends of John Thune ($5,000), and NRCC ($5,000) FEC.
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
In the News
July 2026 coverage reported that Shotwell and her husband, Robert, gave $325 million in SpaceX stock to Trump Accounts; the reporting described Donald Trump thanking Shotwell for the donation NewsAPI. August 2026 coverage also focused on Shotwell's relationship with Musk during SpaceX's first earnings call NewsAPI.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
Foundations are matched to a person by name, not by trustee records — so a same-surname family foundation can land here in error. Every entity below links to its full IRS filing; if one doesn’t belong, tell us at hello@skylarkcreations.com and we’ll pull it.
Political Contributions
These figures cover the 100 most recent of 275 federal contributions on file, not the full record. The total, party split, top recipients and dates below are all computed over that sample, so each is a floor rather than a complete figure.
By Party (in the sample)
Every party in this sample is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $88,172.
Top Recipients (in the sample)
Matched by name only. These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
The filing we hold reports no grants paid. That is what the disclosure says, not a gap in our data — the source is linked below.
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
All data is sourced from public records. Each section links to its original source.