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Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$208k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
77%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 77% of the organizations Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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 arriving7$208k43%
FY202313$643k77%
FY202211$592k55%
FY20218$272k50%
FY202012$321k33%
FY201914$447k29%
FY201813$307k38%
FY201717$515kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.2MYouth Development$263kHuman Services$261kHealth$102kHousing & Shelter$52kInternational$37kEducation$37kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
IA
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
AZ
TN
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
FresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc$155,00061%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$100,00010%
Young Life$97,50040%
Spread Truth Ministries Inc$45,00013%
Institute for Affordable Transportation$35,00035%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$30,00010%
Life 360 Church$24,0004n/a
Living Water of the Valley Church$23,5002n/a
Children's Cup$21,00040%
East Valley Athletes for Christ Inc$10,00017%
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
FresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc$155,00061%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$100,00010%
Young Life$97,50040%
Spread Truth Ministries Inc$45,00013%
Institute for Affordable Transportation$35,00035%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$30,00010%
Life 360 Church$24,0004n/a
Living Water of the Valley Church$23,5002n/a
Children's Cup$21,00040%
East Valley Athletes for Christ Inc$10,00017%
Parenting Special Kids Network Inc$10,000114%
Joni and Friends$10,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$10,00010%
The Sherrard Institute$10,00015%
Magi Initiative$10,0001n/a
Life Church Inc$10,0001n/a
Hope and a Future Inc$10,00011%
Meals From the Heartland Inc$5,00010%
Orchard Africa$4,5002n/a
Calvary Commission Inc$2,50010%
Congo Initiative USA Inc$2,50010%
Matthew 22 39$2,0001n/a
H10 Ministries$2,00012%
Ascended Life Ministries$2,0001n/a
Christian Care Center Inc$1,00010%
Blessman International Inc$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc: $155,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life: $97,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpread Truth Ministries Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetInstitute for Affordable Transportation: $35,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetGlobal Empowerment Mission Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Cup: $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEast Valley Athletes for Christ Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetParenting Special Kids Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetJoni and Friends: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sherrard Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHope and a Future Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMeals From the Heartland Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCalvary Commission Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCongo Initiative USA Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetH10 Ministries: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetChristian Care Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlessman International Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 19.

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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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl

How much does Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl give?
Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl reported 7 grants totaling $208,033 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Food & Nutrition (35%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: FresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc ($155k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($100k), Young Life ($98k).
Does Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl based?
Rb and Twyla Sheldahl Foundation Sheldahl is based in AZ.

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 53 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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