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Andy L & Leone Sheldon Charitable Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Youth Development$559kRecreation & Sports$334kArts & Culture$304kEducation$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kAnimals$15kPublic Benefit$15kHealth$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANGLADE CO INC$61,275
ELCHO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$25,000
CLARA R MCKENNA AQUATIC CENTER$25,000
LANGLADE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
TOWN OF ANTIGO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$5,560
WILLIAMS HOUSE OF HOPE$5,000
ANTIGO MUSIC ASSOCIATION$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WILLIAMS HOUSE OF HOPE: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$983k · 8 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$983k
$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+15%

Still filing today

50%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EH
    ELCHO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +9% · 41% of their budget
  • AG
    ANTIGO GRIDIRON CLUB INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +80% · 35% of their budget
  • AM
    ANTIGO MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Holt county historical society

Holt co history

Arts & Culture
2
Mohican Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Bureau County Historical Society
4
Alfred & Lois Kelch Aviation Museum
Arts & Culture
5
Black Rock Historical Society
Arts & Culture
6
Elizabeth Twp Historical Society

Society formed for the preservation of history of Elizabeth Township.

7
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
8
Belchertown Historical Assoc Inc
9
Williamsburg Iowa Historical Society
Arts & Culture
10
Kenosha Co Archaeological Society
Arts & Culture
11
Aviation Historical Society of Central New York Inc

Historical society providing education on local aviation.

Recreation & Sports
12
Osceola Historical Society
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Langlade County Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Hawk Hill Horse Park Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANGLADE CO INC — $366,275 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANGLADE CO INCCLARA R MCKENNA AQUATIC CENTER — $256,184 · OtherCLARA R MCKENNA AQUATIC CENTERLanglade County Historical Society Inc — $216,194 · OtherLanglade County Historical Society IncBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF — $60,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF — $55,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $50,000 · Other+11 more — $137,773 · Other+11 moreELCHO HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $65,001 · Arts & CultureANTIGO MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC — $22,500 · Arts & CultureANTIGO GRIDIRON CLUB INC — $35,000 · EducationRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC — $15,000 · AnimalsBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLACK HAWK HILL HORSE PARK INC — $6,100 · Public BenefitWILLIAMS HOUSE OF HOPE INCORPORATED — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,141,426Arts & Culture$87,501Education$35,000Animals$15,000Youth Development$15,000Public Benefit$6,100Human Services$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLanglade County Historical Society Inc — $216,194 over 9y, 57% of budgetELCHO HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $65,001 over 3y, 41% of budgetANTIGO GRIDIRON CLUB INC — $35,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetANTIGO MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC — $22,500 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBLACK HAWK HILL HORSE PARK INC — $6,100 over 3y, 3.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Langlade County Historical Society Inc
  • Who funds ELCHO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds ANTIGO GRIDIRON CLUB INC
  • Who funds ANTIGO MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds RAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC
  • Who funds BLACK HAWK HILL HORSE PARK INC
  • Who funds WILLIAMS HOUSE OF HOPE INCORPORATED

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Elwyn Remington FoundationWI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elwyn Remington Foundation · Gerald & Dorothy Volm Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Andy L & Leone Sheldon Charitable Tr funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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