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Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
47%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 19
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$523k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$19k23%
FY202319$28k47%
FY202218$39k83%
FY20215$6k40%
FY20204$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$34kEducation$15kYouth Development$10kAnimals$8kReligion$6kEmployment$6kHuman Services$5kEnvironment$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shreveport Symphony Inc$15,00030%
Robinsons Rescue Inc$6,00030%
Geaux 4 Kids$4,00040%
Common Ground Community Inc$4,00030%
Northwest Louisiana Food Bank$1,83320%
Shreveport Regional Arts Council$1,75030%
Sihaf K12 Learning Academy Inc$1,00021%
American Rose Society$1,00030%
A Visual Sound & Movement Co$1,0003n/a
Gertrudes Gifts$5002n/a
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All grantees of Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shreveport Symphony Inc$15,00030%
Robinsons Rescue Inc$6,00030%
Geaux 4 Kids$4,00040%
Common Ground Community Inc$4,00030%
Northwest Louisiana Food Bank$1,83320%
Shreveport Regional Arts Council$1,75030%
Sihaf K12 Learning Academy Inc$1,00021%
American Rose Society$1,00030%
A Visual Sound & Movement Co$1,0003n/a
Gertrudes Gifts$5002n/a
Settled Inn Village$50020%
Shreveport Bossier Animal Rescue Inc$50021%
Evolution Twirls$2502n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShreveport Symphony Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRobinsons Rescue Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGeaux 4 Kids: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCommon Ground Community Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNorthwest Louisiana Food Bank: $1,833 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShreveport Regional Arts Council: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSihaf K12 Learning Academy Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Rose Society: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSettled Inn Village: $500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetShreveport Bossier Animal Rescue Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Kilpatrick Rose-Neath Foundation Inc · The Powers Foundation Inc · The Crow Foundation · Grayson Foundation Inc · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust

How much does Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust give?
Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust reported 13 grants totaling $19,483 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (15%), Youth Development (10%).
Who are Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Shreveport Symphony Inc ($15k), Robinsons Rescue Inc ($6k), Geaux 4 Kids ($4k).
Does Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Louisiana, Kilpatrick Rose-Neath Foundation Inc, The Powers Foundation Inc.
Where is Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust based?
Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust is based in LA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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