· Public charity
United Fund of Shelby Inc
The organization's primary purpose is to raise funds in the community to assist charitable organizations in the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $121,438 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $140,658 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,220 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
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $35,775 |
| Shelby Help Line | $34,732 |
| Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring | $13,330 |
| Third Street Community Clinic | $9,906 |
| Catalyst Life Services | $7,636 |
| Shelby Community Center | $7,295 |
| Shelby Foundation | $7,250 |
| The Domestic Violence Shelter | $5,514 |
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 (FY18–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MYMID-OHIO YOUTH MENTORING8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +136%
- RTRAEMELTON THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +36%
- SSSHELBY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- SCShelby City School Districtone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
At the sheffield care center our mission, through dedicated teamwork, is to provide all who enter our doors with a clean, comfortable, home-like atmosphere where honesty, dignity, respect and genuine compassion for one another prevails.
The mission of shelby senior services, inc is to respond to the ever-changing needs of seniors and their families, to affect in positive ways their quality of life, and to assist in maintaining their independence.
Our mission is to provide affordable housing for older adults in a community setting.
To maintain a patient-centered environment that encourages and supports innovation and teamwork in achieving excellence. to maximize customer satisfaction by meeting the highest standards of value, service, and performance. to provide…
Methodist manor retirement community is a multi-level services community for older adults providing quality care in a loving christian environment.
Elimination of drug addiction and abuse.
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
Hill view's mission, within a framework of christian values, is to enable each individual it serves to realize his or her highest level of physical, psychological and social fulfillment in an atmosphere of respect, dignity, and caring.
Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.
The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelby Ohio Community Foundation of Richland County and the most unlike its peers is Shelby Senior Citizens Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 SHELBY Y COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mansfield Memorial Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds MID-OHIO YOUTH MENTORING ↗
- Who funds RAEMELTON THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY OHIO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF RICHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHELBY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Third Street Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER 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: Richland County Foundation · United Way of Richland County · The Milliron Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 United Fund of Shelby Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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