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The Carroll Shelby Foundation

Support of health care and education, support for automotive vocational programs for public benefit.

$257k
Granted FY2021
10
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$311kEducation$290kHealth$266kHuman Services$116kPhilanthropy$25k
02FY2021 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHILDREN'S MERCY$10,000
DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH OF UPMC$10,000
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ELI HOME INC: $40k → 10%THE ELI HOME INC: $25k → 10%THE ELI HOME INC: $20k → 10%THE ELI HOME INC: $20k → 10%THE ELI HOME INC: $11k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+38%
+105%

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NT
    NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +38%
  • TE
    THE ELI HOME INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +476%
  • DN
    DFW NCDA CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +239% · 97% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +105%
  • CC
    Cook Children's Medical Center - Prospergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue ×5,406
  • OF
    ONELEGACY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -47%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Cook Children's Health Plan

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
3
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
4
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
5
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
6
Child Study Center

The child study center (csc) provides children with complex developmental and behavioral disabilities the highest quality diagnosis, treatment and education to help them achieve their full potential.

Education
7
Cook Children's Home Health

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
8
Wi Cook Foundation Inc

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
9
Texas Children's Health Plan

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
10
Texas Children's Urgent Care

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
11
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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12
Cook Children's Health Care System

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $290,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE F…DFW NCDA CHARITIES INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyDFW NCDA CHARITIES INCSHELBY AUTOMOTIVE FOUNDATION: $311,267 · Arts & CultureSHELBY AUTOMOTIVE FOUNDATIONCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $135,000 · OtherCOTA - Children's Org…UPMC: $25,000 · OtherUPMCLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY…DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE ELI HOME INC: $115,500 · Human ServicesTHE ELI HOME…Texas Children's Hospital: $25,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $20,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE INC: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCook Children's Medical Center - Prosper: $7,240 · HealthONELEGACY FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Health
Philanthropy$315,000Arts & Culture$311,267Other$190,000Human Services$115,500Health$75,740

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $290,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $135,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ELI HOME INC: $115,500 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetDFW NCDA CHARITIES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONELEGACY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carroll Shelby Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carroll Shelby Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Carroll Shelby Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Carroll Shelby Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $271k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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