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Shey 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.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$1.1MHealth$117kArts & Culture$68kPhilanthropy$32kHuman Services$15kYouth Development$10kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
U of F Foundation$57,500
Gainesville Chamber Orchestra$10,000
STOP Chjildren's Cancer$10,000
Santa Fe College Endowment Fund$10,000
Recovery Rx$5,000
Peaceful Paths$2,500
Meredian Behav Health$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Peaceful Paths: $3k → 19%Peaceful Paths: $3k → 19%Peaceful Paths: $3k → 19%Peaceful Paths: $3k → 19%Peaceful Paths: $3k → 19%Peaceful Paths: $3k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$938k · 13 repeat orgs$377k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$938k
$377k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+56%

Still filing today

54%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SC
    STOP CHILDREN'S CANCER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +47%
  • GC
    GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +166%
  • SA
    SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $17k · revenue +177%

Funded once

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $320k · revenue +56%
  • GC
    Gainesville Community Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • UO
    Univ of Florida Ctr for Performing Arts
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

1
Florida Research Center for Agricultural Sustainability Inc
Philanthropy
2
Recovery Connections of Central Florida

Through empathetic compassion, we ae committed to connecting individuals and families to resources that offer multiple pathways to long-term, sustainable recovery.

Human Services
3
Florida Alliance of Children's Councils & Trusts Inc

To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…

4
Florida Network of Children's Advocacy Centers Inc

To improve florida's response to child abuse by supporting the development, growth and continuation of the children's advocacy centers around florida.

Human Services
5
Florida Council for Behavioral Healthcare Inc

The council promotes the improvement of mental health, alcoholism and drug abuse services in florida through the encouragement of sound legislation for the welfare of patients and member agencies.

6
Florida Council Against Sexual Violence Inc

Sexual violence shatters lives, wounds communities and perpetuates injustice. the florida council against sexual violence leads, informs and inspires the people of florida to create safe and just communities.

Health
7
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
8
First Coast Crime Stoppers Inc

First Coast Crime Stoppers, Inc., is a civilian volunteer organization formed in 2002 to better serve the citizens of the First Coast in the fight against crime. The Board of Directors is made up of concerned citizens who administer the…

Crime & Legal
9
Bioflorida Inc

From concept to consumer, bioflorida is the premier source for supporting the florida life sciences industry. we provide comprehensive resources and advocacy, while fostering a thriving community that leads in innovation and groundbreaking…

10
Celebrities Fore Kids Inc

The organization's mission is to make a difference in the lives of children affected by cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. we strive to improve the quality of life and well-being for them and their families by offering financial…

Human Services
11
Florida Foundation for Correctional Excellence Inc

The purpose of the foundation is to serve as a catalyst to identify and address critical issues which impact public safety, programs, and the reentry of inmates and offenders who are under the supervision of the florida department of…

Crime & Legal
12
Florida Justice Reform Institute Inc

To promote public awareness of the benefits of meaningful tort reform for the state of florida.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pace Center for Girlsinc and the most unlike its peers is Rock By the Sea. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
12/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

U of F Foundation — $624,000 · OtherU of F FoundationSanta Fe College Endowment Fund — $100,000 · OtherSanta Fe College Endowment FundSTOP CHILDREN'S CANCER INC — $60,500 · OtherSTOP CHILDREN'S CANCER INC+8 more — $96,000 · Other+8 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $320,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA F…+1 more — $2,000 · EducationRECOVERY RX CORP — $17,500 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $16,500 · HealthGAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $33,000 · Arts & CulturePEACEFUL PATHS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesROCK BY THE SEA — $12,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RON AND DIANNE FARB CLIMB FOR CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentChild Advocacy Center Inc — $5,000 · Crime & LegalCreated Gainesville Inc — $300 · Crime & Legal
Other$880,500Education$322,000Health$34,000Arts & Culture$33,000Human Services$15,000Philanthropy$14,500Youth Development$10,000Crime & Legal$5,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $320,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTOP CHILDREN'S CANCER INC — $60,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetGAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $33,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetRECOVERY RX CORP — $17,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEFUL PATHS INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROCK BY THE SEA — $12,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChild Advocacy Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RON AND DIANNE FARB CLIMB FOR CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCreated Gainesville Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds STOP CHILDREN'S CANCER INC
  • Who funds GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds RECOVERY RX CORP
  • Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds PEACEFUL PATHS INC
  • Who funds ROCK BY THE SEA
  • Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC
  • Who funds Child Advocacy Center Inc
  • Who funds THE RON AND DIANNE FARB CLIMB FOR CANCER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Created Gainesville 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.

State Chartered Credit Unions in FloridaFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: State Chartered Credit Unions in Florida · United Way of North Central Florida Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Florida · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Shey 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Child Advocacy Center Inc40% of income from government
  • Peaceful Paths Inc39% of income from government
  • Created Gainesville Inc9% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation2% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Shey Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Shey Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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