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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LANGLADE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
CLARA R MCKENNA AQUATIC CENTER$25,000
TOWN OF ANTIGO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$5,560
WILLIAMS HOUSE OF HOPE$5,000
ANTIGO MUSIC ASSOCIATION$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Langlade County Historical Society Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC: $15,000 · AnimalsBLACK HAWK HILL HORSE PARK INC: $6,100 · Public BenefitWILLIAMS HOUSE OF HOPE INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,141,426Arts & Culture$87,501Education$35,000Youth Development$15,000Animals$15,000Public Benefit$6,100Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBLACK HAWK HILL HORSE PARK INC: $6,100 over 3y, 3.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds RAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK HAWK HILL HORSE PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS HOUSE OF HOPE INCORPORATED ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Andy L & Leone Sheldon Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andy L & Leone Sheldon Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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