· Private foundation
Sally Johnson Shy Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,300 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $1,031 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,030 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $513 |
| FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $500 |
| UNC ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $290 |
| MEMPHIS GARDEN CLUB | $250 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $195 |
| CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION | $156 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SMST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL5× · 2019–2023 · $22k · revenue +20%
OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +122%- MUMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $7k
- TOTHE OAK FUND - OAK HILL SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $6k
- FXFED X ST JUDE INVITATIONALone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Providing educational services to children in grades pre-k through 7th grade
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Soar Together Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOAR TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Thomas Garrott Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Elmer & Gladys Ferguson Charitable Trust · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 organization Sally Johnson Shy Foundation 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.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.