· Private foundation
Shelp Charitable Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kentucky Humane Society | $2,000 |
| Primate Rescue Center | $2,000 |
| Second Chances Wildlife Center | $2,000 |
| Can Do Canines | $2,000 |
| Southeastern Guide Dogs | $1,500 |
| Leader Dogs for the Blind | $1,500 |
| Paws With A Cause | $1,500 |
| The Elephant Sanctuary | $1,500 |
| Humane Society of Oldham County | $1,000 |
| Wildcat Sanctuary | $1,000 |
| Saving Paws Animal Rescue | $750 |
| Kentucky Pets Alive | $750 |
| Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- PWPAWS WITH PURPOSE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $18k · revenue +65%
- SCSECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +89%
- PRPRIMATE RESCUE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- PPPacific Primate Societyone grant, 2024 · $750
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARYone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +7%
- ICIndiana Canine Assisstance Networkone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.
Animal Welfare
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Animal Rescue
A sanctuary for unfortunate animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wildcat Sanctuary and the most unlike its peers is Paws With Purpose Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 PAWS WITH PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRIMATE RESCUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds COL POTTER CAIRN RESCUE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OLDHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Medical Mutts Service Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL NATION 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 Shelp Charitable Foundation 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.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% 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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