Shirley's Way Inc
Louisville, KY · EIN 90-1024077. Reported 66 grants totalling $1,893,358 to 58 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Shirley's Way Inc, the IRS classifies it as a fundraising and fund-distribution organization (NTEE T12).
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,500. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Board of Education of Jefferson County Kentucky | Louisville, KY | $171,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Little League Baseball Inc | Louisville, KY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| I Would Rather Be Reading | Louisville, KY | $118,900 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Paul Catholic Church | Louisville, KY | $84,280 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Holy Cross High School | Louisville, KY | $80,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Addie and Baylor Kirchgessner Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $77,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prp Soccer Booster Club | Louisville, KY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwest Family Ministries | Louisville, KY | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bill and Vicki Miller Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $63,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisville Metro Police Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $61,478 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Prisoners Hope Inc | Louisville, KY | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kosair Charities Committee Inc | Louisville, KY | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elevate Louisville Inc | Louisville, KY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jacobs Ladder Outreach Corporation | Simpsonville, KY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fairdale Youth Baseball | Fairdale, KY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beechmont Youth Sports Inc | Louisville, KY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whas Crusade for Children Inc | Louisville, KY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwest Community Ministries Inc | Louisville, KY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Notre Dame Academy | Louisville, KY | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childhood Cancer Family Fund Inc | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Connections Group Inc | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Norton Healthcare Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sycamore Farm Ky Inc | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prairie Village Baseball-Softball Inc | Louisville, KY | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Louisville Titans Yout Mentor Program | Louisville, KY | $21,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lesley & Rhyan Prather Foundation | Valley Sta, KY | $20,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Du Pont Manual High School Alumni Association Inc | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Health Ideas Inc | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Life Church of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peace Education Program Inc | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southend Street Angels | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Nicholas Academy | Lousville, KY | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Andrews Academy | Louisville, KY | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bernheim Middle School Cheer Boosters | Shepherdsville, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Quality USA Incorporated | Kalamazoo, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coleman Preparatory Academy Inc | Louisville, KY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Maestros Inc | Louisville, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feeding America Kentuckys Heartland Inc | Elizabethtown, KY | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwest Community Festival & Parade Committee Inc | Louisville, KY | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arthur S Kling Center Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bullitt County Public Schools | Shepherdsville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charleys Rainbow Inc | Mt Washington, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ciara's House Inc | Brandenburg, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Meade Association for Remarkable Citizens Inc | Brandenburg, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Santa and Community Events Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prp Panther Athletic Fund Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Second Chances Wildlife Center | Mt Washington, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shamrock Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Hope Buss Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Waverly Hills Histrorical Society Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends School Inc | Louisville, KY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Seths Squad | Mt Washington, KY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dupont Manual High School Baseball Boosters Inc | Louisville, KY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Options Unlimited Inc | Shepherdsvlle, KY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwest Center for the Developmentally Disabled | Louisville, KY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Highland Commerce Guild Inc | Louisville, KY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ethanalmighty S Blessings Inc | Jeffersonvlle, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louisville Dream Center Inc | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
8 of 58 (14%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 58 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12 | $134,550 | $7,200 |
| 2024 | 54 | $1,758,808 | $20,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Kentucky. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Kentucky.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Shirley's Way Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 54 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 58098, Louisville, KY, 40268.
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