· Private foundation
Sheila Fortune 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $387k
- $250k+1 grant · $336k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Francis in the Fields Episocopal Church | $336,000 |
| El Sistema Indianapolis | $15,000 |
| Barnstone Art for Kids | $15,000 |
| Beyond the Bars | $15,000 |
| Girls First | $12,000 |
| Greater Philadelphia YMCA | $12,000 |
| EcoArts Connections | $12,000 |
| Yes And Collaborative Arts | $12,000 |
| El Sistema Colorado | $12,000 |
| Moving Arts Espanola | $12,000 |
| MAS Comunidad | $12,000 |
| Musicopia | $12,000 |
| Santa Fe Teen Arts Center | $12,000 |
| Settlement Music School of Philadelphia | $12,000 |
| Norris Square Neighborhood Project | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $346k 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
- ECEcoArts Connections5× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +150%
- BABARNSTONE ART FOR KIDS5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +23%
Yes And Collaborative Arts5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $9k
- ANARTsmart New Mexicoone grant, 2021 · $8k
- DFDARLINGTON FINE ARTS CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
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.
Play on philly provides underserved children in philadelphia, a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.
Instilling a desire in young people to learn to participate in live performances of song and dance.
Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…
Challenges, engages and inspires audiences both onstage and in the classroom, through innovative, multidisciplinary storytelling in the genre of tanztheatre, which unites all art media and to achieve an all-embracing, radical change in…
To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.
Colorado nbsp;music nbsp;bridge nbsp;provides nbsp;access nbsp;to nbsp;inclusive nbsp;modern nbsp;music nbsp;education nbsp;programs nbsp;curricular nbsp;resources nbsp;and nbsp;professional nbsp;development
Inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theater, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts.
Lachey arts, inc. is focused on using the arts to build a diverse community of young artists, empowering the creative spirit and giving the confidence and tools to change the world.
The organization presents the highest quality of professional dance performance and improves the skills of emerging and professional dances and choregraphers in a nurturing environment while increasing the appreciation of dance among it's…
Colorado ballet's mission is to present exceptional classical ballet and contemporary dance through performances, training, education and community engagement while inspiring and growing an increasingly diverse audience base.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expressive Path Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roshni. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
112 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. 112 of the 139 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 EcoArts Connections ↗
- Who funds BARNSTONE ART FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO JAZZ WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds Yes And Collaborative Arts ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN INDIANA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FIRST ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds Salida Circus Outreach Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL MENTORING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE BARS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds EXPRESSIVE PATH INC ↗
- Who funds PLATTEFORUM ↗
- Who funds Keshet Dance Company ↗
- Who funds MIRROR IMAGE ↗
- Who funds NORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CLEF CLUB FOR JAZZ & PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds A CHILDS SONG INC ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE COUCH ↗
- Who funds UNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE STAR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Roshni ↗
- Who funds EL SISTEMA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Spanish Danzart Society ↗
- Who funds KORESH DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S CHOIR ↗
- Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLAY STUDIO ↗
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: The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Denver Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Rosenlund Family Foundation Inv Mgr · Ludwick Fdn · The Colorado Health Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Stockton Rush Bartol 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 Fortune 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.
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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