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The Sh and Rl Detlefs Family Fdn Inc at a glance

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The Sh and Rl Detlefs Family Fdn Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$236kHealth$35kReligion$18kHousing & Shelter$11kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$310k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$10,000
MAYO CLINIC$2,000
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VISION CASHIERS: $10k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
IN
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$278k · 11 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$278k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-16%

Still filing today

64%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthPublic Safety & DisasterHuman 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

  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +30%
  • TS
    TRINITY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +39%
  • BM
    BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED
    5× · 2019–2023 · $2k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • LW
    LITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +33%
  • PM
    PROJECT MAIN ST
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • VC
    VISION CASHIERS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +21%
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
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
2
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.

Education
10
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
11
Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical (continued on…

Science & Tech
12
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $114,500 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $73,000 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONTRINITY SCHOOL INC: $18,000 · EducationTRINITY SCHOOL INCWAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $30,700 · OtherWAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MED…CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $11,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHE…PROJECT MAIN ST: $10,000 · OtherPROJECT MAIN STKAIROS CHURCH: $7,000 · OtherKAIROS CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…NOVANT HEALTH WOMENS OB GYN: $2,500 · Other+6 more: $5,000 · Other+6 moreProject Main Street Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyProject Ma…LITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLITTLE WAR…VISION CASHIERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAYO CLINIC: $2,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR SAFER TRUCKING: $500 · Public Safety & DisasterTREES ATLANTA INC: $200 · Environment
Education$205,500Other$71,200Philanthropy$30,000Human Services$10,000Health$2,100Public Safety & Disaster$500Environment$200

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 budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $114,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $73,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProject Main Street Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTRINITY SCHOOL INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVISION CASHIERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROAD SAFE AMERICA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SAFER TRUCKING: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Project Main Street Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VISION CASHIERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ROAD SAFE AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SAFER TRUCKING ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗

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.

Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sh and Rl Detlefs Family Fdn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sh and Rl Detlefs Family Fdn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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.

    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 22 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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