· Private foundation
Bernice R Shanklin Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN IN CRISIS | $20,000 |
| UNION COUNTY CARE TRAIN | $15,000 |
| SHEPHERD CHURCH | $15,000 |
| EMBRACE FLORIDA KIDS | $12,500 |
| SANCTUARY COLLECTIVE | $12,500 |
| VIEQUES HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $10,000 |
| COREFI - CONCERNED RESIDENTS FOR IMPROVEMENT INC | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| CANCER FREEZE | $10,000 |
| SUPPORT OUR SCHOLARS (SOS) | $10,000 |
| VIEQUES HISTORICAL TRUST SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| UNION COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $10,000 |
| UNION COUNTY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $197k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHCommunity Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $135k · revenue +962%
- CFCANCER FREEZE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $77k · revenue +111%
- SCSANCTUARY COLLECTIVE6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +358%
Funded once
- TITIFIE IN CARE OF GULF AIR GROUP INCone grant, 2018 · $115k
- TTIFIEone grant, 2017 · $105k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CRESTVIEW INCone grant, 2024 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
A.farm share, inc. (the "organization") is a non-profit organization and was incorporated under the laws of the state of florida on july 8, 1992 as a 501c3 corporation that is tax-exempt under the provision of the internal revenue code.…
Improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
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To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The mission of the maui food bank is to help the hungry in maui county by collecting and distributing food through community partnerships.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whyhunger Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cancer Freeze Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 81 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Community Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER FREEZE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds CARE TRAIN OF UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CALM ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT OUR SCHOLARS (SOS) ↗
- Who funds Our Community Table - Palm City Inc ↗
- Who funds Panhandle Equine Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLINTON FARMS ↗
- Who funds Mission Love Seeds Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION ACADEMY STUDIO SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ASHA MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIEQUES CONSERVATION AND HISTORICAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MENLO PARK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marmon Valley Ministries Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Community Foundation of Union Count · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Bernice R Shanklin Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
- Manna Food Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Upcounty Hub Inc — 2% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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