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· Private foundation
SHEIN CHARITABLE TRUST
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$303k
Granted FY2024
11
Grants
1
Communities
$85k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Arts & Culture$333kEducation$124kCommunity Improvement$102kHealth$8kYouth Development$5kCivil Rights$5kAnimals$5kOther$123k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2022
performing arts
2023
educationseriesbend symphonysymphony orchestra
2024
bend museummuseum arteducationbend civiccivic theatre
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
$26,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC$85,000
- SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC$50,000
- RUSALIA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC$40,000
- RIVER BEND CANCER SERVICES$35,000
- SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART INC$30,000
- FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASN$26,500
- SOUTHHOLD DANCE THEATER$16,000
- KINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS$8,000
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOS VALLEY$5,000
- 100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER SOUTH BEND$5,000
- SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC$2,000
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$547k · 5 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
6
Total granted
$547k
$67k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+52%
+55%
Still filing today
80%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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 ASSOC2× · 2023–2024 · $220k · revenue +23%
- SBSOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART INC2× · 2023–2024 · $113k · revenue +52%
- RRRUSALIA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $105k · revenue +289% · 94% of their budget
Funded once
- TFTHE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSICone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SCSTANLEY CLARK SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +47%
- PIPROJECT IMPACT SOUTH BEND INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +317%
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
South Bend Medical Foundation
To provide high-quality pathology and blood services to those we serve, keeping in mind there is a life behind everything we do.
Health
2
South Bend Montessori High
We exist to meet the developmental needs of adolescents by educating high school students through the montessori method in a mixed-income, community-oriented environment.
Education
3
Downtown South Bend Inc Foundation
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…
Philanthropy
4
Studebaker National Museum Inc
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,…
Arts & Culture
5
Michiana Partnership Inc
The south bend - elkhart regional partnership focuses on a long-term systemic approach to advance the region's economy by aligning the efforts of various stakeholders around five key areas: educating a world-class workforce, recruiting and…
Community Improvement
6
Fort Bend History Association
To promote public interest in the history of fort bend county, texas through the operation of a historical park and the establishiment and maintenance of a historical museum.
Arts & Culture
7
Grand Rapids Ballet
To lift the human spirit through the art of dance.
Arts & Culture
8
Kiwanis Club of South Bend Inc
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9
School of American Ballet Inc
In fy 2024, the school of american ballet passed knowledge of the balanchine ballet tradition from 20 gifted faculty members to some 845 students in its programs. these faculty members were augmented by a selected new york city ballet…
Arts & Culture
10
South Bend Empowerment Zone Inc
The empowerment zone nurtures the mind, body, and spirit of each child by embracing equity, learning, and change for students, staff, and families. we harness the power of community and relationships to ignite transformation.
Education
11
South Bend Alumni Association Inc
Support south bend community schools & scholarships
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12
Indianapolis Ballet Inc
Indianapolis ballet embraces the history and future of classical ballet through dynamic performances, visionary new works, extraordinary training, and by providing transformative community outreach programs to the widest possible…
Arts & Culture
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.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$332,500Education$124,000Other$122,500Community Improvement$102,000Health$8,000Youth Development$5,000Civil Rights$5,000Animals$5,000
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 ASSOC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds RUSALIA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds STANLEY CLARK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT IMPACT SOUTH BEND INC ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER SOUTH BEND ↗
- Who funds PET REFUGE INC ↗
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.
Judd Leighton Foundation IncIN18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · 1st Source Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Hayes Family Foundation Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · 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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RUSALIA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~50 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 850913626 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on RUSALIA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 50 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Shein Charitable Trust?
Find your warmest path to Shein Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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