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THE CARROLL SHELBY FOUNDATION
Support of health care and education, support for an automotive museum for public benefit.
$257k
Granted FY2021
10
Grants
6
Communities
$90k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Philanthropy$315kArts & Culture$311kHuman Services$116kHealth$76kOther$190k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
organ transplant
2019
—
2020
—
2021
—
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDTN$90,000
- CHILDREN'S ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION$50,000
- THE ELI HOME INC$40,000
- DFW NCDA CHARITIES INC$15,000
- GIFT OF LIFE INC$10,000
- LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH$10,000
- DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
- CHILDREN'S MERCY$10,000
- CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
- CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH OF UPMC$10,000
02The need
04
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 (FY17–21, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$942k · 8 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
3
Total granted
$942k
$36k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
-1%
+179%
Still filing today
75%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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
- NTNORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDTN8× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +68%
- TETHE ELI HOME INC8× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +476%
- CMCHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL2× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TCTEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +58%
- CCCOOK CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +412979%
- OONELEGACYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +179%
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
Cook Children's Medical Center
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Health
2
The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation
To provide support for the activities and mission of The Children's Mercy Hospital.
Health
3
Children's Physicians
Children's physicians is the leading pediatric primary care practice dedicated to caring for all children in omaha and the surrounding areas, while supporting education and research.
Health
4
Cook Children's Physician Network
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Health
5
Texas Children's Health Plan the Center
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
Health
6
Children's Hospital Corporation
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Health
7
North Central Texas Medical Foundation
Health
8
Children's Hospital Colorado
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
Health
9
Children's Hospital Medical Center
Provision of pediatric healthcare to patients.
Health
10
Cook Children's Health Care System
We strive to be an extension of your family, growing with your child from baby steps to adulthood. We keep our Promise - to improve the well-being of every child in our communities - by instilling kindness, imagination and respect into…
Health
11
Wi Cook Foundation Inc
Cook Children's is more than a health care system: we strive to be an extension of your family, growing with your child from their first steps to adulthood. By collaborating to deliver on our Promise to improve the well-being of every…
Health
12
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation Fka Cmc Foundation of Central Texas and the most unlike its peers is Shelby Automotive Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$315,000Arts & Culture$311,267Other$190,000Human Services$115,500Health$75,740
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 SHELBY AUTOMOTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDTN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION (COTA) ↗
- Who funds THE ELI HOME INC ↗
- Who funds DFW NCDA CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOK CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ONELEGACY ↗
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.
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX13.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation THE CARROLL SHELBY FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DFW NCDA CHARITIES INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 460739895 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on DFW NCDA CHARITIES INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Carroll Shelby Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Carroll Shelby Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines