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Community Foundation of Shelby County
To inspire donor generosity and transform it into meaningful, lasting impact through charitable gifts.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SHELBY COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 88 grants below total $6,224,265 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,291,198 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,066,933 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $158k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUSSIA LOCAL SCHOOLS | $3,516,658 |
| VILLAGE OF RUSSIA | $224,075 |
| SIDNEY-SHELBY CO YMCA | $128,455 |
| LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $107,204 |
| RAISE THE ROOF FOR ARTS | $97,415 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE-SHELBY CO | $88,426 |
| SHELBY COUNTY UNITED WAY | $88,107 |
| RUSTIC HOPE | $84,966 |
| MORGANS PLACE CEMETARY INC | $84,115 |
| HOLY ANGELS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $81,128 |
| MERCY MISSION HOUSE | $73,756 |
| AGAPE DISTRIBUTIONS | $63,893 |
| GRANTS UNDER 2500 | $63,755 |
| SHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $60,790 |
| ALPHA COMMUNITY CENTER | $59,988 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% 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.
93 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k 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
- SASIDNEY ALIVE SIDNEY ALIVE5× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +43% · 82% of their budget
- RTRAISE THE ROOF FOR THE ARTS8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +45% · 41% of their budget
- SCSIDNEY-SHELBY CTY YMCA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $874k · revenue +24% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- MMMERCY MISSION HOUSE EMERGENCYone grant, 2022 · $165k
- SJST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $53k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +74%
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.
We advocate for business growth and support the success of our members while collaborating with partners to promote shelby county as a highly desirable community in which to live, work, and play.
To aid in the fulfillment of the charitable functions of the shelby township, mi community.
Providing an inclusive public private community partnership invested in growth for city of shelby ohio.
The mission of shelby senior services, inc is to respond to the ever-changing needs of seniors and their families, to affect in positive ways their quality of life, and to assist in maintaining their independence.
The mission of the sandusky county communities foundation is to enhance the well-being of the people and communities of sandusky county by managing permanent investments for philanthropic goals.
Receive and distribute food and related items to help meet the nutritional needs of lower income area residents.
Ambulance commission
Development of business community in shelby county.
At the sheffield care center our mission, through dedicated teamwork, is to provide all who enter our doors with a clean, comfortable, home-like atmosphere where honesty, dignity, respect and genuine compassion for one another prevails.
Provide awareness in the community of mental health needs and suicide rates. provide support, education, and counseling for those in need.
To receive and accept property to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes for the benefit of the people in the henry county, ohio area
The conservancy's mission is to manage, operate, restore and improve shelby farms park in partnership with and for the public. the conservancy is responsible for daily management, fundraising to meet operational budget needs, setting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelby County United Way and the most unlike its peers is Council of Religious Education of Sidney Ohio 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 172 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 SHELBY COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIDNEY ALIVE SIDNEY ALIVE ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE ROOF FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SIDNEY-SHELBY CTY YMCA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY MISSION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALPHA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORT LORAMIE BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE CARE OF SHELBY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RUSTIC HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds WILSON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION REBIRTH INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CENTER OF SIDNEY-SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SIDNEY ATHLETIC BOOSTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ANNA RESCUE UNIT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CHOICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SIDNEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SHELBY & DARKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILMA VALENTINE CHILDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds S & H PRODUCTS ↗
- Who funds THE EDISON FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dayton Foundation Depository · Shelby County United Way · The Donald & Evelyn Bensman Foundation · The Troy Foundation · Osgood Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Tam Foundation Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · First Bank Richmond Inc Community Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Honda of America Foundation · Miami Valley Hospital
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 Community Foundation of Shelby County 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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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