· Private foundation
James R Shields Private 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC (FWTRAILS) | $40,000 |
| TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS W DISABILITIES (TURNSTON) | $30,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (CNCHILDH) | $30,000 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (RILEY CH) | $30,000 |
| EUELL A WILSON CENTER INC (EUELL A) | $30,000 |
| PARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC (PRKVIEWF) | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL (ST JUDE) | $25,000 |
| BISHOP DWENGER HIGH SCHOOL (BISDWEHS) | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC (CHFOODNI) | $25,000 |
| FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC (FWZOOSOC) | $25,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC (MAYOCLIN) DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
| TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS W DISABILITIES (TURNSTON) | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC (JUNIORSD) | $20,000 |
| ALLEN CO - FT WAYNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $20,000 |
| CANTERBURY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ACAllen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +56%
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC3× · 2019–2021 · $90k · revenue +11%
Indiana University Foundation5× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL (STMARY)one grant, 2023 · $15k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +27%
- HOHEART OF THE CITY MISSION FOUNDATION (HEARDFD)one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Pufferbelly Junction Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 46 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 PUFFERBELLY JUNCTION INC ↗
- Who funds Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds EUELL A WILSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK 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: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Journal Gazette Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Zollner Foundation · Do It Best Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Parkview Health System 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 James R Shields Private 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.