· Private foundation
The Shelby 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE'S | $10,000 |
| AMERICA'S CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| WE CARE | $5,000 |
| MALVIA WASHINGTON YOUTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JASYMN | $5,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| WJCT | $5,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $5,000 |
| UNICEF | $5,000 |
| CARE | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $5,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $5,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SULZBACHER CENTER | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TAThe Arc Jacksonville Inc4× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +25%
- CACATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC4× · 2019–2023 · $32k · revenue +147%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES4× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN KYone grant, 2021 · $35k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…
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…
Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America's Charities and the most unlike its peers is Summit County Rescue Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 56 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Arc Jacksonville Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION & FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds WJCT INC ↗
- Who funds Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LJD JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Dubow Family Foundation Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Csx Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Joan & H Ronald Levin Family Foundation · Ronnie & Jerrold Rosenbaum Family Foundation Inc · Vestcor Family Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Shelby 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.
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Anthony's Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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.