· Private foundation
Shein Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $248k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC | $104,500 |
| SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART INC | $76,000 |
| SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC | $67,000 |
| SOUTHHOLD DANCE THEATER | $27,028 |
| RIVER BEND CANCER SERVICES | $25,000 |
| RUSALIA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| SOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCATION | $12,500 |
| 100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER SOUTH BEND | $5,000 |
| FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASN | $3,600 |
| GOBLES PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- SBSOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $325k · revenue +20%
- SBSOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART3× · 2023–2025 · $219k · revenue +24%
- TFTHE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TFTHE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSICone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SCSTANLEY CLARK SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +24%
- KTKINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS 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.
The organization is committed to the advancement and vitality of downtown south bend through offering business resources, support, initiatives, and incentives; presenting marketing and events to attract visitors; and highlighting downtown…
To lift the human spirit through the art of dance by providing: exceptional and diverse programming; high quality dance education; outreach to inspire and enrich the community; family-friendly programming including newly commissioned…
South buffalo charter school provides elementary education to students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. we are a professional learning community. our focus on learning is driven by research, data and collaborative reflection to…
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
To be a center for the interpretation of history, design, and innovation that connects and inspires the community and enthusiasts around the world. this is accomplished through programming, active collecting, and the display of vehicles,…
To provide for women the best undergraduate residential liberal arts education along with select graduate programs, in the catholic and benedictine traditions. the college fosters integrated learning, exceptional leadership for change and…
We, saint joseph regional medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc-south bend is a member of saint joseph regional…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Dedicated to advancing the art of ballet through premier education, performance, outreach and collaberation.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Bend Civic Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rusalia Research 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.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds RUSALIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY RIVERBEND CANCER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHOLD DANCE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STANLEY CLARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER SOUTH BEND ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOSEPH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds PET REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT IMPACT SOUTH BEND INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
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: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Hayes Family Foundation Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · The Rafat and Zoreen Ansari Charitable Foundation Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Everwise Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Shein Charitable Trust 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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