· Public charity
Shelby County United Fund Inc
The mission of shelby county united fund, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $804,935 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $874,584 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $69,649 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $688k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS CLUB | $202,750 |
| GIRLS INC | $202,750 |
| SHELBY SENIOR SERVICES | $90,515 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $74,300 |
| SHELBY CO CANCER ASSOCIATION | $63,200 |
| TURNING POINT | $54,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $32,400 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $28,000 |
| THE ARC | $21,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $19,800 |
| HUMAN SERVICES | $8,200 |
| PROJECT CLOTHES FOR KIDS | $8,020 |
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 (FY17–24, $654k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHELBY COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +164% · 29% of their budget
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SHELBYVILLE SHELBY COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +89% · 26% of their budget
- SSSHELBY SENIOR SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $654k · revenue +18%
Funded once
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.
We advocate for business growth and support the success of our members while collaborating with partners to promote shelby county as a highly desirable community in which to live, work, and play.
To enhance the business climate in shelby county by serving, supporting, and promoting our members and community. 500+ members served.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
To maintain a patient-centered environment that encourages and supports innovation and teamwork in achieving excellence. to maximize customer satisfaction by meeting the highest standards of value, service, and performance. to provide…
To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
Provide awareness in the community of mental health needs and suicide rates. provide support, education, and counseling for those in need.
Promote sheboygan county business development.
Operation of shelby county historical museum.
Temporary shelter for abused spouses and their children.
We focus on three primary needs in our community: investing in children and youth, promoting health and independence, and helping families in crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelby Senior Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shelby County Meals On Wheels. 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 12 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SHELBYVILLE SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHELBY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS REGIONAL SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF INDIANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES 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.
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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 Shelby County United Fund 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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