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The Patti Shively Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Patti Shively Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$190k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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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 2023.

Education$791kFood & Nutrition$307kRecreation & Sports$233kYouth Development$180kHuman Services$141kEnvironment$87kReligion$30kHealth$25k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$49k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lexington Catholic High School$150,000
Gainesville Soccer Alliance$40,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Pace Center for Girls of Alachua: $150k → 19%Esperanza Inc: $30k → 15%Oak Hall Private School: $400k → 19%Lexington Catholic High School: $150k → 15%Oak Hall Private School: $340k → 19%Rex Brody Foundation: $7k → 19%Gainesville Area Rowing: $25k → 19%Girls on the Run of Alachua County: $20k → 19%The Education Foundation of Alachua: $1k → 19%Grow Hub: $273k → 19%Grow Hub: $87k → 19%Grow Hub: $55k → 19%Gainesville Soccer Alliance: $40k → 19%Grow Hub: $32k → 19%UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine: $25k → 19%Grow Hub: $29k → 19%University of Florida: $10k → 19%Grow Hub: $3k → 19%Sidney Lanier Center: $2k → 19%Gator Junior Golf Association: $11k → 19%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 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
Girls on the Run Greater Tampa Bay

Girls on the Run Greater Tampa Bay GOTR provides programming designed to enhance participants' social, emotional and physical skills to successfully navigate life experiences. Our fun, interactive lessons meet the unique needs of…

Youth Development
2
University Athletic Association Inc

Provide a championship experience with integrity on and off the field for student-athletes and the gator nation.

Recreation & Sports
3
Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida Inc

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. Girl Scouting is girl led, where girls work together and learn collaboratively and experientially. Girls work under the guidance, coaching…

Youth Development
4
University of Florida Alumni Association Inc

The mission of the university of florida alumni association, inc. ("association") is to exclusively support and enhance the mission of the university of florida ("university") of pursuing "excellence in education and research and shaping a…

Education
5
Gainesville Independent School Inc Aka Lakeview Academy

Gainesville independent school, inc. a.k.a. lakeview academy is a college-preparatory school committed to excellence in the personal growth and academic development of today's student through a partnership of school, family, and community.

Education
6
Gator Junior Golf Inc

Youth Development Programs Through the Game of Golf

Youth Development
7
Florida High School Athletic Association Inc

Operation, promotion, direction, supervision, and regulation of interscholastic athletics of member high schools in florida.

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8
Georgia High School Association

To govern athletic and academic competition among georgia high schools. to orchestrate athletic and academic tournaments and other events.

Education
9
Ucf Athletics Association Inc

To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.

Education
10
Girls On the Run of Southwest Florida

We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience based curriculum which creatively integrates running

Recreation & Sports
11
Girl Scout Council of the Florida Panhandle Inc

To teach life skills and leadership development through discover, connect, and take action philosophy

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12
Georgia Tech Athletic Association Inc

The primary purpose of the association is to promote the educational programs of georgia tech through student body participation in "healthful exercises, recreations, athletic games and contests". the association "develops the young people…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gainesville Soccer Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Citrus County 4-H Association Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAK HALL PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $740,000 · OtherOAK HALL PRIVATE SCHOOL INCIndividual grant recipient: $479,603 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPace Center for Girls of Alachua: $150,000 · OtherPace Center for Girls of AlachuaLexington Catholic High School: $150,000 · OtherLexington Catholic High School+5 more: $65,000 · OtherGAINESVILLE SOCCER ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsGainesville Area Rowing Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsStep by Step Inc: $53,500 · Human ServicesTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationESPERANZA INC: $30,000 · ReligionCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,584,603Recreation & Sports$65,000Human Services$53,500Education$51,000Religion$30,000Youth Development$10,000

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 budgetOAK HALL PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $740,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetStep by Step Inc: $53,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAINESVILLE SOCCER ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetESPERANZA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGainesville Area Rowing Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGirls on the Run of Alachua County Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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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 Patti Shively Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Patti Shively Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%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
    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 · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Patti Shively Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Patti Shively 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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