· Private foundation
William and Gertrude Shelley Family
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP TAKUMTA | $25,000 |
| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $20,000 |
| THE MERRYMAC FARM SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| PREECLAMPSIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AUNT DOT'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| LAURA'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ORANGE COUNTY'S HOMELESS PETS | $5,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND | $5,000 |
| LIVE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| DORSET EQUINE RESCUE | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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 +8% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- VCVERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA7× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +15%
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS7× · 2019–2025 · $140k · revenue +5%- TFTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $140k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SFSTOREYBROOK FARM SANCTUARY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -18%
- UUVMone grant, 2020 · $5k
- UUSCRIone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The animal rescue league of boston's vision is to confront animal cruelty and neglect at its root causes. through programs, services, and facilities focused on accessible animal care, public advocacy, and sustained anti-cruelty efforts...…
Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Orange Countys Homeless Pets. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 50 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 VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PREECLAMPSIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Merrymac Farm Sanctuary Incorporated ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Aunt Dot's Place Inc ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIVE LOVE ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds STOREYBROOK FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Little Red Dog Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ORANGE COUNTYS HOMELESS PETS ↗
- Who funds Wellesley Conservation Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMBOREE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds DARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST 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: National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 William and Gertrude Shelley Family 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.
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Preeclampsia Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.
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