· Private foundation
Shelby Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Homeless Children IRC | $8,000 |
| Duke - Hardin Family ALS | $5,000 |
| Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation | $5,000 |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina | $5,000 |
| North Carolina Ballet | $2,500 |
| Ackland Art Museum | $2,000 |
| Vero Beach Museum of Art | $2,000 |
| Larimer Humane Society | $2,000 |
| Youth Sailing Foundation | $2,000 |
| Rocky Mountain Raptor Program | $2,000 |
| The Cedars Education Program | $1,500 |
| Playmakers Repertory Company | $1,000 |
| Carolina Performing Arts | $1,000 |
| Off the Hook Arts | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue ×12
- NHNoco Humane6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +93%
CAROLINA BALLET INC7× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- OCORCA CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +83%
- CHCOLORADO HORSE RESCUEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +299%
- NCNorthern Colorado Beekeepers Associone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
Community radio for northern colorado's (crnc) mission is to strengthen our community by cultivating the mind and spirit - informing, inspiring, and entertaining. crnc strives to meet its mission by operating two public media services -…
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 64 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Noco Humane ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TABLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds NO BARRIERS USA ↗
- Who funds CEDARS EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Off the Hook Arts ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shelby Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shelby Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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