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Shelburne Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS (HURRICANE IAN) | $20,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER PA AND WEST VIRGINIA | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $9,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION - ERIE CHAPTER | $1,000 |
| MERCER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| LAKEVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,000 |
| STORM HARBOR EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $1,000 |
| SKYE'S SPIRIT WILDLIFE AND REHABILITATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| MERCER AREA YOUTH SOCCER | $1,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED MISSIONS OF MERCER COUNTY | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTORS (NEW KENSINGTON) | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- MFMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +1%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +99%- FFFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION6× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UCUPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $9k
- PFPARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +48%
- LCLAKEVIEW CHURCH OF GODone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The pennsylvania medical society is the voice of pennsylvania's physicians and the patients they serve. we advance quality patient care and the ethical practice of medicine. we promote physician leadership, education, professional…
The mission of the pa aap is to promote the equitable health and well-being of all pennsylvania children. as experts in pediatric healthcare, we are committed to fostering collaboration among pediatricians, families, and community partners…
The mission of the philadelphia county medical society (pcms) is to aggressively advance and support the interests of physicians and their patients. pcms is pennsylvania's premier county medical organization.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.
Pcua provides advocacy, resources and solutions for member credit unions
The make-a-wish foundation of the mid-atlantic creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…
Inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners for Quality Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Special Equestrians Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 40 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 Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON CENTER VOLUNTEER FIRE CO ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley ↗
- Who funds Special Equestrians Inc ↗
- Who funds World Ocean School Inc ↗
- Who funds SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER AREA LIBRARY 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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Shelburne Charitable Foundation 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.
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
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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