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The Shackelford Family Foundation

THE SHACKELFORD FAMILY FOUNDATION is a supporting organization of the columbus foundation.

$374k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$5.0MArts & Culture$2.2MPhilanthropy$370kHealth$115kReligion$110kAnimals$67kHousing & Shelter$62kEnvironment$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $340,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $374,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALING TOWERS$50,000
STAR HOUSE$50,000
MOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC$50,000
END FUND INC$50,000
COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART$30,000
I KNOW I CAN$30,000
THURBER HOUSE INCORPORATED$25,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC$25,000
HARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC$20,000
RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OHIO BUCKEYE REGION: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
MD
AZ
SC
FL

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 23 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
25

Total granted

$5.2M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+42%

Still filing today

78%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +17%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $570k · revenue +36%
  • MI
    MOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NANTUCKET EDUCATION TRUST INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • GS
    GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -62%
  • OP
    Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -59%

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
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
2
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
5
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
6
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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7
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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8
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Oberlin College

Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…

Education
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
12
Columbus Association of Realtors

The columbus association of realtors is a local level, not-for-profit trade association. founded in 1908, columbus association of realtors is comprised of more than 9,100 real estate professionals engaged in residential sales and leasing,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr12%6%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr20%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr21%7%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr20%64%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,253

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $2,535,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $253,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC+2 more — $53,000 · PhilanthropyDENISON UNIVERSITY — $2,010,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $570,200 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+3 more — $37,000 · EducationCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART — $1,287,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ARTMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC — $380,000 · Arts & CultureMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC+10 more — $69,750 · Arts & CultureTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $170,000 · OtherI KNOW I CAN — $162,000 · OtherTHE NANTUCKET EDUCATION TRUST INC — $50,000 · OtherBROAD STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $48,300 · OtherNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $43,000 · OtherThe End Fund Inc — $50,000 · OtherOhio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund — $25,000 · Other+17 more — $90,100 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $58,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $20,000 · HealthNETCARE CORPORATION — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $200 · HealthGIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS — $40,000 · AnimalsNetwork for Animals USA Inc — $25,000 · Animals+1 more — $1,600 · AnimalsHEALING TOWERS INC — $60,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$2,841,000Education$2,617,200Arts & Culture$1,736,750Other$638,400Health$83,200Animals$66,600Religion$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $2,535,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY — $2,010,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART — $1,287,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $570,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC — $380,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $253,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $170,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetI KNOW I CAN — $162,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHEALING TOWERS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $58,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR HOUSE — $51,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe End Fund Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NANTUCKET EDUCATION TRUST INC — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $43,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNetwork for Animals USA Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE THURBER HOUSE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE OWEN ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetJAZZ ARTS GROUP — $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWilliams College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FOR COLUMBUS AND FRANKLIN COUNTY — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADING HOME INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETCARE CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER — $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET METROPOLITAN INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPERA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DREXEL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN LAWN CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC — $650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Orance County Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Columbus FoundationCardinal Health Found…L Brands FoundationIngram-White Castle F…United Way of Central…Margaret and Robert W…Siemer Family Foundat…American Electric Pow…Columbus Jewish Found…Meuse Family Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Hinson Family Trust F…
Columbus FoundationOH47.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Meuse Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Hinson Family Trust 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 organization The Shackelford Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Shackelford Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Shackelford Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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