· Private foundation
Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | $125,146 |
| Alzheimer & Parkinson Assoc | $10,000 |
| World War Veterans Committee | $4,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club Indian River County | $3,000 |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $3,000 |
| Turning Point USA | $2,000 |
| Indian River Community Foundation | $1,000 |
| Landmark Legal Foundation | $1,000 |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| American Cornerstone Institute | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +62% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +917%
- UAUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $31k · revenue +13%
- RTRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +90%
Funded once
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +49%- BRBird Rock Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +519% · 32% of their budget
- AHALLINA HEALTH SYSTEMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +28%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
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To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Council of Indian River County and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 36 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bird Rock Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-SOLDIER PLATOON INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds WHALE TRUST ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Landmark Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH 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.
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
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 Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 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.
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance 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.