New York · Private foundation
Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $268,166
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 82
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 65 | $2.3M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $2.4M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $3.0M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $2.3M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 75 | $2.2M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $1.9M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 68 | $1.8M | 9% |
| FY2018 | 82 | $2.4M | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reg Lenna Center for the Arts Inc | $2,173,946 | 9 | 42% |
| Chautauqua Institution | $1,254,650 | 9 | 1% |
| Chautauqua Striders Inc | $685,500 | 9 | 11% |
| Jamestown Community Learning Council | $670,500 | 9 | 9% |
| National Comedy Center Inc | $585,250 | 6 | 9% |
| Jamestown Community College Foundation Inc | $429,440 | 7 | 5% |
| Jamestown Renaissance Corporation | $383,000 | 9 | 21% |
| James Prendergast Library Association | $363,660 | 9 | 10% |
| Jamestown Center City Development Corporation | $358,750 | 8 | 5% |
| The Salvation Army | $295,950 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc · Holmberg Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Northern Chautauqua Community Found · Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation · The Snow Family Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc
- How much does Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc give?
- Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc reported 66 grants totaling $2,275,847 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 82 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Environment (16%), Education (11%).
- Who are Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Reg Lenna Center for the Arts Inc ($2.2M), Chautauqua Institution ($1.3M), Chautauqua Striders Inc ($686k).
- Does Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc, Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation, Carnahan-Jackson Foundation.
- Where is Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc based?
- Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc is based in NY.
Play a game based on Ralph C Sheldon’s filings →