How much did RALPH C SHELDON FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of RALPH C SHELDON FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

park directorminister's directorbldgcarewny

2019

minister's directorsummerjps

2020

staff grantsegrantse discmembership

2021

surveillancemembershipprojectdirector staff

2022

strategic partnershipchautprojectsdirector staffmembership duescampaigndirector staff

2023

director's grantdirectorgrantdirector staffstrategic partnershipbuildingbuildingdirector staffmembership duescare

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k34 grants · $59k
$10k–50k20 grants · $512k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
$250k+2 grants · $595k

$10,500

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER$326,750
CHAUT LAKE & WATERSHED MGMT ALLIANCE$268,166
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION$217,500
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUT CO$183,350
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUT CO$160,500
REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$153,500
YMCA$94,000
UNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK (UCAN)$83,500
CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS$82,000
YWCA$70,500
JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL$70,000
INFINITY PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM INC$66,250
JAMESTOWN CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$51,000
JAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORP$50,000
JAMESTOWN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$47,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$17M · 99 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

99 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$921k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

Still filing today

38%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

JC
JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +34% · 34% of their budget
CI
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +83%
CS
CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS
8× · 2017–2024 · $615k · revenue +4%

Funded once

CC
CHAUTAUQUA CO LAND BANK CORP
one grant, 2021 · $301k
UW
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA CO
one grant, 2017 · $161k · revenue +4%
YO
YWCA OF JAMESTOWN
one grant, 2017 · $74k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce

To create a business environment in the region where our members can thrive.

Community Improvement

Chautauqua Foundation Inc

The preservation, the appropriate use, and the growth of endowment funds.

Philanthropy

Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation &

Improve the housing stock of chautauqua county and the living conditions of its low-income residents.

Housing & Shelter

Chautauqua Lake and Watershed

The alliance was formed for the purpose of working in collaboration with lake and watershed-related organizations, municipalities, and other stakeholders in chautauqua county, ny, to promote and facilitate implementation of recommendations…

Environment

Chautauqua County Land Bank Corporation

To reverse the trend of further deterioration of the County of Chautauqua's housing and commercial stock; control and modestly improve promising properties so that reputable buyers can be attracted.

Housing & Shelter

Upmc Chautauqua At Wca

To improve the health and well-being of the people of chautauqua county and the surrounding area in a way that includes compassion, dedication, a commitment to quality and patient safety while maintaining economic viability and a vision…

Health

The Chautauqua Center Inc

To provide quality health care services by operating diagnostic and treatment facilities pursuant to article 28 of the public health law of new york state. the center operates clinics in dunkirk, new york, jamestown, new york, gowanda, new…

Health

Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus

Education

Ridgway Chautauqua

To offer and support programs that promote lifelong learning, the arts, culture and community, embody the chautauqua tradition and advance the creative economic vitality of our region.

Arts & Culture

Chautauqua Region Economic

The main purpose of chautauqua region economic development corporation is to promote job growth in the community.

Community Improvement

Chautauqua County Humane Society Inc

To promote the adoption of animals, prevent all forms of animal cruelty and neglect and shelter

Animals

Chautauqua Women's Club Inc

The chautauqua women's club provides innovative programming, dynamic events, leadership opportunities for women, and life changing scholarships for students.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chautauqua Region Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Chautauqua Lake Triathlon. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/73

the rest of the field

33/751

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/64

Grantees still filing

40/64

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$11,982,366Education$2,501,707Arts & Culture$1,683,590Youth Development$773,350Community Improvement$738,450Environment$297,471Philanthropy$245,100

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.

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.

Chautauqua Region Community FoundationNY96.5× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · United Way of Southern Chautauqua · Holmberg Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Gebbie Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern Chautauqua C · The Snow Family Foundation

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 organisation RALPH C SHELDON FOUNDATION INC 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 161191893 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 34% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RALPH C SHELDON FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

RALPH C SHELDON FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph