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Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$152k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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83% of Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

14
’20
5
’21
4
’22
4
’23
8
’24
6
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$125,146
Organizations funded a year
5 to 15
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$6.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving9$26k44%
FY202412$36k50%
FY20236$24k50%
FY20226$52k67%
FY20215$47k40%
FY202015$137kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.7MArts & Culture$88kEducation$66kHuman Services$66kHealth$44kCrime & Legal$16kPublic Benefit$13kYouth Development$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
HI
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVero Beach Museum of Art Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Against Poverty Inc: $31,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRiverside Theatre Inc: $30,900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDuke University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBird Rock Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetJohn's Island Community Service League Inc: $15,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAllina Health System: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt-A-Soldier Platoon Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetNorthside Achievement Zone: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Indian River County Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWhale Trust: $5,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetScholarship Foundation of Indian River County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIndian River Land Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCultural Council of Indian River County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Learning Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWesley Village: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe National World War II Museum Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Corps Heritage Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQuail Valley Charities Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $250 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 25.

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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.

Indian River Community Foundation IncFL17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The McCord Family Foundation Inc · The Ron and Nancy Rosner Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ned and Emily Sherwood Family Foundation · The Berghorst Foundation Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · Higgs Family Foundation · Eugene & Carol Atkinson Family Foundation · The Carwill Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund

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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About Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901

How much does Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 give?
Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 reported 11 grants totaling $152,146 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (85%), Arts & Culture (4%), Education (3%).
Who are Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Vero Beach Museum of Art Inc ($50k), United Against Poverty Inc ($31k), Riverside Theatre Inc ($31k).
Does Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Indian River Community Foundation Inc, The McCord Family Foundation Inc, The Ron and Nancy Rosner Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 based?
Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 is based in CT.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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