Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC
THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,586 to it, the largest being PROFFITT BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $671k
What The Derek Sheely Foundation Inc does
Mission
To increase awareness and research of traumatic brain injuries, with a focus on youth sports.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Concussion awareness kits are provided to athletes and their families to educate them on the signs, symptoms, dangers, and prevention of traumatic brain injuries. Approximately 100 kits were distributed in 2025.
$1,673 spent9% of program spendingScholarships are available for students of frostburg state university with a grade point average of 3.4 or higher who exemplify leadership qualities and provide 40 hours of community service to increase awareness of concussions and traumatic brain injuries in sports.
$16,000 spentof which $16,000 as grants91% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,673.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $623k to $705k (+13%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
26% of THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kristen Sheely
Exec director/treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $101 → $89.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $440 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC?
- THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,586 to it, the largest being PROFFITT BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,586 in grants to THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC?
- PROFFITT BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing