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Shein Charitable Trust at a glance

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Shein Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$338k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$815kEnvironment$120kHealth$60kEducation$42kPhilanthropy$12kCivil Rights$10kHuman Services$5kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $248k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOBLES PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2k → 14%KINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $8k → 13%100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER SOUTH BEND: $5k → 13%100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER SOUTH BEND: $5k → 13%RIVER BEND CANCER SERVICES: $35k → 13%RIVER BEND CANCER SERVICES: $25k → 13%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOS VALLE: $5k → 13%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOS VALLEY: $5k → 13%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOS VALLEY: $2k → 13%THE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC: $30k → 13%FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASN: $27k → 13%FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASN: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $3k → 13%SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $105k → 13%SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $90k → 13%SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $85k → 13%SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART INC: $76k → 13%SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART INC: $75k → 13%SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC: $67k → 13%RUSALIA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $65k → 13%SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC: $50k → 13%RUSALIA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 13%SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC: $30k → 13%SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART INC: $30k → 13%SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART INC: $30k → 13%SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $25k → 13%SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $20k → 13%RUSALIA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 13%SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC: $15k → 13%SOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCATION: $13k → 13%SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART INC: $8k → 13%SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC: $5k → 13%SOUTHHOLD DANCE THEATER: $27k → 13%SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC: $2k → 13%SOUTHHOLD DANCE THEATER: $16k → 13%PROJECT IMPACT SOUTH BEND INC: $5k → 13%STANLEY CLARK SCHOOL: $19k → 13%PET REFUGE INC: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$975k · 8 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$975k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SB
    SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $325k · revenue +20%
  • SB
    SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2023–2025 · $219k · revenue +24%
  • TF
    THE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • SC
    STANLEY CLARK SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +24%
  • KT
    KINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Grand Rapids Ballet

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…

Arts & Culture
3
South Buffalo Charter School

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…

Education
4
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
College of Saint Benedict

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…

Education
7
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center- South Bend Campus Inc

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…

Health
8
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
9
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Springfield Ballet Inc

Dedicated to advancing the art of ballet through premier education, performance, outreach and collaberation.

Arts & Culture
11
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

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.

Education
12
Benedictine University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Bend Civic Theatre Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $324,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INCSOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART: $218,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ARTSOUTHOLD DANCE THEATER INC: $43,028 · Arts & CultureSOUTHOLD DANCE THEATER INCTHE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $30,100 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC: $169,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH BEND CIVIC …RUSALIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · EducationRUSALIA RESEARC…STANLEY CLARK SCHOOL INC: $19,000 · EducationSTANLEY CLARK S…+1 more: $3,000 · EducationCANCER SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY RIVERBEND CANCER SERVICES: $60,000 · OtherCANCER SOCIE…THE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC: $30,000 · OtherTHE FISCHOFF…SOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 · OtherSOUTH BEND A…JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOSEPH VALLEY INC: $7,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDER…JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOS VALLE: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · Other100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER SOUTH BEND: $10,000 · Civil RightsKINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $8,000 · HealthPROJECT IMPACT SOUTH BEND INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPET REFUGE INC: $5,000 · Animals
Arts & Culture$616,128Community Improvement$169,000Education$142,000Other$116,500Civil Rights$10,000Health$8,000Youth Development$5,000Animals$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $324,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetSOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART: $218,500 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetSOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC: $169,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetRUSALIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 3y, 94% of budgetCANCER SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY RIVERBEND CANCER SERVICES: $60,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetSOUTHOLD DANCE THEATER INC: $43,028 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $30,100 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSTANLEY CLARK SCHOOL INC: $19,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 12% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER SOUTH BEND: $10,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetKINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOSEPH VALLEY INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT IMPACT SOUTH BEND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPET REFUGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …1st Source Bank Found…Judd Leighton Foundat…University of Notre D…Hayes Family Foundati…The Pokagon Fund IncThe Rafat and Zoreen …Carroll F V Char Tr-M…Everwise Foundation I…Baird Foundation IncRenaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…
Community Foundation of St Joseph County IncIN26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shein Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shein Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Shein Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Shein Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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