· Private foundation
Jeff and Shelley Shinn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| OPERATION HEALING FORCES | $5,000 |
| THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN | $3,800 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $2,900 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCKFORD | $2,500 |
| V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $2,000 |
| ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $1,000 |
| PHANTOM REGIMENT | $500 |
| FORBES SCHOLARSHIP- UNIVERSITY CLUB OF ROCKFORD | $500 |
| YMCA | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +111% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RUROCKFORD UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +5%
- RFROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +381%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD6× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +39%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2024 · $5k
- RPROCKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -43%
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.
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois at urbana-champaign (the university) and all its alumni; to inspire lifelong loyalty and pride among…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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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…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 75 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 ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHANTOM REGIMENT INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA 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 Northern IL · Blazer Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Javon Bea Hospital · Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable Trust · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Ahlstrand Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jeff and Shelley Shinn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeff and Shelley Shinn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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