· Private foundation
Fred Schelben Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of FRED SCHELBEN FOUNDATION’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $2,250 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON | $2,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC | $1,000 |
| HODDING CARTER MEMORIAL YMCA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $850 |
| COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER | $850 |
| DELTA'S CHILDREN MUSEUM | $800 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $600 |
| DELTA COTTON BELLES | $450 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $250 |
| DELTA CENTER STAGE | $250 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $150 |
| MISSISSIPPI KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 29%. 0% of your 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY7× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +81%
- DCDELTA COTTON BELLES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +74%
- OHOUR HOUSE INC2× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- BGBOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB OF WASHINGTON COone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $2k
- GGGREATER GREENVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
To promote and assist in economic development, job creation and job training for washington county, ms and surrounding areas. to promote and assist existing businesses in the area.
The mission of the Washington County Work Ready Association is to promote, support, and provide innovative programs that provide workforce development skill training for high demand and high growth industry sectors to residents of…
The boys and girls club of southwest alabama actively works with local youth of all backgrounds to develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and future leaders in our community.
Provide a low cost theatre options for the community of washington
Providing healthy activities in a supporting environment for youth, families and the community.
Provide a safe place for youth to go for recreational and educational programs.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens
Program serves to develop boys and girls in kingsville.
Walker County Childrens Advocacy Center, Inc. will provide services to child victims of physical and sexual abuse, severely neglected children and children who have witnessed a violent crime. The Center will work every day to try and stop…
Provided a safe place for area youth to use as a recreational facility and to conduct educational reinforcement classes for "at risk" youth
Restoring hope through the message of the gospel, and restoring community through the power of relationships
Outpatient mental health in a Christian atmosphere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Washington County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Delta Center Stage Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 31 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 UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Hodding Carter Memorial YMCA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA COTTON BELLES INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA CENTER STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI KIDNEY FOUNDATION 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.
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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 Fred Schelben 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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