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SHELBY COUNTY UNITED FUND INC
The mission of shelby county united fund, inc.
$875k
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
1
Communities
$203k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Youth Development$3.2MHuman Services$654kHealth$474kFood & Nutrition$150kEmployment$61kOther$1.3M
02FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $688k
$54,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- GIRLS INC$202,750
- BOYS CLUB$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
02The need
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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:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $654k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 12 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
0
Total granted
$5.9M
$0
Still filing today
92%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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
- BCBOYS CLUB8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +164% · 29% of their budget
- GIGIRLS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +89% · 26% of their budget
- SCSHELBY CO CANCER ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $474k · revenue +55% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
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.
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Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Inc
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.
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2
Shelby County Arc Inc
Provide advocacy, education and leadership and support to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
Human Services
3
Shelby County Health Care Corporation
Healthcare delivery operating a public charity hospital providing inpatient and outpatient services.
Health
4
Shelby County Historical Society
Operation of shelby county historical museum.
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5
Shelby County Senior Citizens
To provide services for the elderly and disabled.
Human Services
6
Sidney-Shelby County Chamber of
To enhance the business climate in shelby county by serving, supporting, and promoting our members and community. 500+ members served.
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7
The Shelby County Memorial Hospital
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…
Health
8
Girl Scouts of Colorado
Girl scouts of colorado prepares girls and adults to create unique leadership paths, ignite change, and share a worldwide sisterhood through traditions and new experiences. girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character,…
Youth Development
9
Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
Food & Nutrition
10
Sherburne County Area United Way
Sherburne county area united way strives to drive lasting change in the sherburne county area by uniting changemakers to advocate for the common good of the community and to develop innovative solutions to local complex challenges that…
Philanthropy
11
Girl Scouts of Utah
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
Youth Development
12
Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc
Empowering girls to become leaders, confident changemakers, and champions of a better world.
Youth Development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelby County United Fund 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.
04the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Youth Development$3,231,020Other$1,294,442Human Services$654,315Health$473,700Food & Nutrition$150,200Employment$61,400
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 CLUB ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SHELBY CO CANCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CLOTHES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE ARC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES ↗
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.
Blue River Foundation IncIN20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Blue River Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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: BOYS CLUB.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~16 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 350957039 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 BOYS CLUB, 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 16 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Shelby County United Fund Inc?
Find your warmest path to Shelby County United Fund Inc 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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