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The Shilling Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Shilling Foundation 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.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$572kReligion$109kEducation$73kEnvironment$67kEmployment$59kHuman Services$30kYouth Development$28kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RING DOG RESCUE$76,000
COMPUTERS FOR KIDS$20,000
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$15,000
KINDNESS CVILLE$10,000
BROOKS FAMILY YMCA$9,000
THE COVENANT SCHOOL$5,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$4,000
BENNET'S VILLAGE$3,000
LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA$3,000
UVA CHILDREN'S HEALTH$2,000
VIRGINIA PRISON BIRTH PROJECT$2,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VA$1,500
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$1,000
VIA CENTERS FOR NEURODEVELOPMENT$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%COMPUTERS FOR KIDS: $20k → 8%THE COVENANT SCHOOL: $26k → 8%RING DOG RESCUE: $79k → 9%FNCAS: $3k → 13%COMPUTERS FOR KIDS: $8k → 8%KINDNESS CVILLE: $25k → 8%RING DOG RESCUE: $78k → 9%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $20k → 8%RING DOG RESCUE: $78k → 9%KINDNESS CVILLE: $10k → 8%RING DOG RESCUE: $78k → 9%THE COVENANT SCHOOL: $10k → 8%RING DOG RESCUE: $76k → 9%BROOKS FAMILY YMCA: $9k → 8%RING DOG RESCUE: $68k → 9%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $8k → 8%RING DOG RESCUE: $59k → 9%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $8k → 8%RING DOG RESCUE: $53k → 9%KINDNESS CVILLE: $8k → 8%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $7k → 8%BROOKS FAMILY YMCA: $6k → 8%BROOKS FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 8%KINDNESS CVILLE: $5k → 8%THE COVENANT SCHOOL: $5k → 8%KINDNESS CVILLE: $5k → 8%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $5k → 8%BROOKS FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 8%KINDNESS CVILLE: $5k → 8%THE BRIDGE PAI: $4k → 8%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $4k → 8%ON OUR OWN: $3k → 8%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $3k → 8%WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $26k → 8%WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15k → 8%WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15k → 8%WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $14k → 8%WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $13k → 8%WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $13k → 8%WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $12k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VA: $5k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VA: $5k → 8%BENNET'S VILLAGE: $5k → 8%VIRGINIA PRISON BIRTH PROJECT: $5k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VA: $5k → 8%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 8%WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%JABA PHILANTHROPY: $4k → 8%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$991k · 18 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$991k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+24%

Still filing today

72%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHealthEmploymentYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • RD
    Ring Dog Rescue Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $567k · revenue +97%
  • KC
    Kindness Cville
    7× · 2019–2025 · $59k · revenue +95%
  • TP
    THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • OO
    ON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -6%
  • F
    FNCAS
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
2
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
3
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.

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4
Virginia Capital Trail Foundation

The virginia capital trail foundation exists to protect, promote, and enhance the virginia capital trail and engage communities around it.

Recreation & Sports
5
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
6
Children's Home Society of Virginia

The mission of CHSVA is to build strong permanent families and lifelong relationships for Virginia's at risk children and youth.

Human Services
7
For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services
8
Wild Virginia Incorporated

Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.

Environment
9
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
10
Virginia Conservation Network

Vcn is a facilitator of strategic action, a resource for network partners statewide, and a constant preservation presence in richmond. playing a unique role in virginia's conservation community, vcn helps the community speak with one…

Environment
11
Charlottesville Community Bikes

Charlottesville community bikes promotes environmentally-sound transportation, recycles bicycles, and makes cycling accessible in charlottesville, va. we work to create innovative, community-rooted solutions to address community mobility…

Recreation & Sports
12
Chip of Virginia

Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Land Trust of Virginia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis 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

17 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. 17 of the 27 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ring Dog Rescue Inc: $567,464 · AnimalsRing Dog Rescue Inc+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $109,361 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHU…THE COVENANT SCHOOL INC: $42,661 · OtherTHE COVENANT SCHOOL INCBROOKS FAMILY YMCA: $30,000 · OtherBROOKS FAMILY YMCABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VA: $21,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTR…THE BRIDGE PAI: $11,450 · Other+14 more: $39,233 · Other+14 moreTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $58,200 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC: $7,964 · EnvironmentKindness Cville: $58,500 · EmploymentCOMPUTERS FOR KIDS INC: $29,500 · PhilanthropyBENNETT'S VILLAGE INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsVIRGINIA PRISON BIRTH PROJECT: $14,000 · Crime & Legal
Animals$568,464Other$254,205Environment$66,164Employment$58,500Philanthropy$29,500Recreation & Sports$15,000Crime & Legal$14,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRing Dog Rescue Inc: $567,464 over 8y, 17% of budgetKindness Cville: $58,500 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $58,200 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COVENANT SCHOOL INC: $42,661 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPUTERS FOR KIDS INC: $29,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBENNETT'S VILLAGE INC: $15,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetVIRGINIA PRISON BIRTH PROJECT: $14,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE PAI: $11,450 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC: $7,964 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $6,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $3,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC: $3,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $750 over 3y, 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 Ring Dog Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds Kindness Cville ↗
  • Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPUTERS FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BENNETT'S VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA PRISON BIRTH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE PAI ↗
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS ↗
  • Who funds ON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOWS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL 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.

Charlottesville Area …Perry Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Shilling Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shilling Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 27 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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