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Sheila E Daley Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$161kHuman Services$80kInternational$75kEducation$60kEmployment$10kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$10,000
NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN$10,000
ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION$10,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION$10,000
MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY$10,000
SCIBOSTON$5,000
PROSPECTOR THEATRE$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SCIBOSTON: $5k → 8%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%SCIBOSTON: $5k → 8%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%SCIBOSTON: $5k → 8%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY & ENRICHMENT INC: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$341k · 6 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$341k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalHealthEducationRecreation & 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

  • ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +49%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +90%
  • MW
    MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • PO
    PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +138%
  • TK
    THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON CHAPTER OF UNITED SPINAL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

1
Disabilityin

The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…

Community Improvement
2
Sign Fracture Care International

Sign partners with overseas surgeons to build sustainable orthopaedic capacity by donating education, instruments, and implants. by working with teaching hospitals and hosting educational conferences worldwide, sign equips surgeons to heal…

Health
3
Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation

Cparf funds us-based research to change what's possible for people with cerebral palsy, implements proven science, and advances innovation to benefit all people with disabilities around the world.

Health
4
Limbs International Inc

Engaging communities and transforming lives through sustainable prosthetic solutions.

Health
5
Chair the Hope Inc

Providing wheelchairs to individuals worldwide

Philanthropy
6
Spinal Cord Injury Network International

Spinal cord injury network helps individuals and their families overwhelmed by the trauma of spinal cord injury to live healthy, productive lives making the difficult road of spinal cord injury easier

Health
7
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
8
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.

9
Keralink International Inc

Keralink international works to end avoidable blindness by developing, delivering, and scaling affordable solutions for all, powered by innovative technology and partnerships.

Health
10
American Foundation for the Blind Inc

The mission of the american foundation for the blind afb is to create equal opportunities and expand possibilities through advocacy thought leadership and strategic partnerships.

Human Services
11
Ability Beyond Disability

The mission of ability beyond is to discover, build, and celebrate the ability in all people. with approximately 1,100 full-time and part-time employees, ability beyond serves more than 3,000 individuals with disabilities each year.we…

Health
12
Global Mobility

The organization was instrumental in providing mobility, education, and advocacy for children and adults in need in the following georgraphic areas of israel north america, and indonesia. global mobility has the freedom and flexibility to…

Health

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

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION…SCIBOSTON INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSCIBOSTON INCPROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND E…SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $65,000 · OtherSHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHIL…GREATER BOSTON CHAPTER OF UNITED SPINAL — $10,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON CHAPTER OF U…UPC WHEELS FOR HUMANITY — $10,000 · OtherUPC WHEELS FOR HUMANITYPROSPECTOR THEATRE — $5,000 · OtherPROSPECTOR — $5,000 · OtherAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION…HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 · InternationalHANDICAP INTERNATIONA…MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY — $60,500 · HealthMOMENTUM WHEELS F…NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · EducationNORWALK COMMUNITY…THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$95,000Other$95,000International$75,000Health$60,500Education$60,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC — $70,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY — $60,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSCIBOSTON INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHANDICAP INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY
  • Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SCIBOSTON INC
  • Who funds PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC
  • Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Sheila E Daley 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Sheila E Daley Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sheila E Daley 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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