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The Sharing of Blessings Foundation

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.

$122k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$12k
Largest
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.

Religion$501kEducation$189kHealth$97kPhilanthropy$82kRecreation & Sports$37kFood & Nutrition$23kArts & Culture$21kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k51 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Henry Church$12,457
Special Operations Foundation of FL$10,000
Windermere Prep Volunteer Assoc$10,000
A Heart to Give$8,000
Harpeth Hall School$6,000
St Cecilias Church$5,250
Regents of Univ of Michigan$5,000
The Boundless Trailer$5,000
St Patrick's - Grand HavenMI$4,000
Wings of Mercy$4,000
Rosary High School$3,000
Blessed Trinity Catholic School$3,000
Holy Name Cathedral$3,000
St Jude Children's Hospital$2,600
Loras College$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Green Beret Foundation: $3k → 16%The Chad Tough Foundation: $1k → 14%Lazarus House: $5k → 8%Green Beret Foundation: $3k → 16%The Chad Tough Foundation: $1k → 14%Lazarus House: $2k → 8%The Chad Tough Foundation: $1k → 14%Lazarus House: $2k → 8%The Chad Tough Foundation: $1k → 14%Lazarus House: $1k → 8%Night Stalker Foundation: $500 → 14%Lazarus House: $1k → 8%Lazarus House: $1k → 8%Leader Dogs for the Blind: $100 → 8%Lazarus House: $1k → 8%Lazarus House: $1k → 8%Waterleaf Womens Center: $5k → 7%Waterleaf Womens Center: $5k → 7%Wings of Mercy: $4k → 8%Waterleaf Womens Center: $2k → 7%Wings of Mercy: $4k → 8%Waterleaf Womens Center: $2k → 7%Wings of Mercy: $2k → 8%Waterleaf Womens Center: $2k → 7%Wings of Mercy: $2k → 8%Waterleaf Womens Center: $1k → 7%Wings of Mercy: $1k → 8%Waterleaf Womens Center: $1k → 7%Wings of Mercy: $1k → 8%Wings of Mercy: $1k → 8%Wings of Mercy: $1k → 8%Waterleaf Womens Center: $200 → 7%Wings of Mercy: $1k → 8%Kids Beating Cancer: $1k → 13%Kids Beating Cancer: $1k → 13%Matthews Hope Ministries: $1k → 13%Wounded Warrior Project: $500 → 14%Matthews Hope Ministries: $1k → 13%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
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$996k · 96 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
61

Total granted

$996k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+33%

Still filing today

45%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • WP
    WINDERMERE PREP VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue +67%
  • WW
    Waterleaf Women's Center Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +55%
  • HF
    HOPE FOR HAITIANS INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • GP
    GRAMERCY PARK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF DUBUQUE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +16%
  • FO
    FOCUS-Fellowship of Cath UnivStuden
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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 Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
9
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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10
Vitalant

Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.

Health
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Dominican American National 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

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 167 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
55/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Holy Cross Church of Batavia: $166,750 · OtherHoly Cross Church of BataviaSt Henry Church: $94,293 · OtherSt Henry ChurchLUMEN CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOL: $46,000 · OtherLUMEN CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOLA HEART TO GIVE INC: $42,500 · OtherBOUNDLESS TRAILER INC: $32,000 · OtherWINDERMERE UNION CHURCH: $28,860 · Other+125 more: $434,823 · Other+125 moreWaterleaf Women's Center Inc: $18,400 · Human ServicesWINGS OF MERCY INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HOUSE: $14,000 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $14,000 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $5,800 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Human Services+7 more: $6,700 · Human ServicesWINDERMERE PREP VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION: $27,350 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $8,000 · EducationNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,300 · Education+1 more: $1,540 · EducationFox Valley Pregnancy Center: $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,600 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,123 · HealthBROOKS STRONG FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,730 · Health+4 more: $1,700 · HealthHOPE FOR HAITIANS INC: $16,900 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalThe Humanity Share Inc: $1,000 · InternationalSpecial Operations Foundation: $16,500 · PhilanthropyMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $2,000 · PhilanthropyHOLY FAMILY RADIO: $9,500 · ReligionSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL: $2,700 · Religion+1 more: $100 · Religion
Other$845,226Human Services$79,400Education$49,190Health$40,153International$19,900Philanthropy$18,500Religion$12,300

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 budgetWINDERMERE PREP VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION: $27,350 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetWaterleaf Women's Center Inc: $18,400 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITIANS INC: $16,900 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWINGS OF MERCY INC: $16,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSpecial Operations Foundation: $16,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetFox Valley Pregnancy Center: $15,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetLORAS COLLEGE: $14,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE: $14,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY RADIO: $9,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNorthwestern University: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $5,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBATAVIA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $4,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,123 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLEWATCH INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $3,283 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE MICHIGAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $2,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL: $2,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS BEATING CANCER INC: $2,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $2,282 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKS STRONG FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMATTHEW'S HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA BAY WATCH INC: $1,918 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,730 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $1,680 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,623 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,460 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST PATRICK'S RESIDENCE: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humanity Share Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND HAVEN COAST GUARD FESTIVAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnd Then There Were None: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $600 over 2y, 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 WINDERMERE PREP VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Waterleaf Women's Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HAITIANS INC ↗
  • Who funds WINGS OF MERCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Special Operations Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Fox Valley Pregnancy Center ↗
  • Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY RADIO ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation of the Fox River ValleyIL15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Florida Railroad Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Matthew's Hope Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to The Sharing of Blessings Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sharing of Blessings 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 167 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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