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Shelly Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$3.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Shelly Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$90k31%
FY202311$85k9%
FY202213$90k38%
FY202114$96k29%
FY202014$92k14%
FY201915$96k40%
FY201814$96k100%
FY201720$96kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$741kPhilanthropy$15kEmployment$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Ohio State University$40,0005n/a
Concord University$21,0004n/a
The Board of Directors of Wittenberg College$20,00040%
Malone University$20,00040%
The University of Findlay$20,00030%
Capital University$15,00030%
Ohio Dominican University$15,00030%
Otterbein University$15,00020%
Central Ohio Technical College$15,0003n/a
Muskingum University$12,00040%
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All grantees of Shelly Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Ohio State University$40,0005n/a
Concord University$21,0004n/a
The Board of Directors of Wittenberg College$20,00040%
Malone University$20,00040%
The University of Findlay$20,00030%
Capital University$15,00030%
Ohio Dominican University$15,00030%
Otterbein University$15,00020%
Central Ohio Technical College$15,0003n/a
Muskingum University$12,00040%
Ohio Wesleyan University$10,00020%
University of Northwestern Ohio$10,00020%
Denison University$10,00010%
Heidelberg University$10,00020%
Hobart Institute of Welding Technology$5,00010%
Franklin University$5,00010%
Cedarville University$5,00010%
University of Dayton$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($489k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shelly Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Board of Directors of Wittenberg College: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMalone University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Findlay: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCapital University: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Dominican University: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOtterbein University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuskingum University: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Wesleyan University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Northwestern Ohio: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDenison University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeidelberg University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHobart Institute of Welding Technology: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFranklin University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Columbus FoundationOH18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust · Clapper Scholarship Fund · Ella Weiss Educational Fund · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Folds of Honor Foundation · A K Stephenson Fdn Char Tr Agy · Ritton Family Foundation · Coshocton Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Dayton Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Shelly Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shelly Family Foundation 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.

About Shelly Family Foundation

How much does Shelly Family Foundation give?
Shelly Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $105,338 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Shelly Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (97%), Philanthropy (2%), Employment (1%).
Who are Shelly Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Ohio State University ($40k), Concord University ($21k), The Board of Directors of Wittenberg College ($20k).
Does Shelly Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Shelly Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shelly Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust, Clapper Scholarship Fund.
Where is Shelly Family Foundation based?
Shelly Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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