· Private foundation
James R Shields Private Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $450k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS W DISABILITIES | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC | $50,000 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $40,000 |
| FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC | $40,000 |
| EUELL A WILSON CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| VINCENT VILLAGE INC | $25,000 |
| BISHOP LUERS HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BISHOP DWENGER HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $25,000 |
| PARKVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | $20,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
| ALLEN CO - FT WAYNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $63k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2026, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAllen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc7× · 2019–2026 · $150k · revenue +56%
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC4× · 2019–2026 · $140k · revenue +11%
- FWFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC4× · 2019–2026 · $110k · revenue +23%
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
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.
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.
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.
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PUFFERBELLY JUNCTION INC ↗
- Who funds Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds EUELL A WILSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James R Shields Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James R Shields Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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