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Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee

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.

$465k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
110
Grants FY2025
70
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
70 to 90
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$162k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving77$464k9%
FY202470$375k20%
FY202385$502k7%
FY202290$571k14%
FY202183$592k31%
FY202084$599k17%
FY201983$603k17%
FY201870$453k16%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$935kEnvironment$706kHealth$595kHuman Services$364kCommunity Improvement$192kFood & Nutrition$144kAnimals$126kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 110 grantees
All grantees of Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
George Stevens Academy$313,50091%
Kneisel Hall$300,50085%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$248,50090%
Blue Hill Heritage Trust$223,00093%
The Jackson Laboratory$190,50080%
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc$190,00083%
Waring School Inc$171,50090%
Gfwc Naples Woman's Club Inc$167,000510%
New England Aquarium Corporation$117,50080%
Trustees of Deerfield Academy$89,00090%
Children's Hospital Corporation$88,00090%
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc$74,00040%
Fairleigh Dickinson University$64,50050%
Blue Hill Public Library$63,50052%
Shaw Institute$62,50094%
WGBH Educational Foundation$60,50090%
Peninsula Ambulance Corps$55,00091%
Concord Academy$45,30090%
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries$43,50091%
New England Conservatory of Music$40,00090%
Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts Inc$40,00050%
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts$39,00099%
Island Health & Wellness Foundation$39,00093%
Yale University$35,2504n/a
Lobero Theatre Foundation$35,00050%
Island Nursing Home Inc$35,00040%
The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital$30,00040%
College of the Atlantic$30,00040%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$29,5005n/a
Island Institute$28,00070%
Friends of Blue Hill Bay$28,0009n/a
Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Yale University$24,6504n/a
Island Workforce Housing$20,00032%
Oceana Inc$19,00080%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$18,00060%
Yale University$17,5503n/a
Center for Contemporary Art$17,40031%
Town of Blue Hill Maine$17,0004n/a
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc$16,50090%
Compassion & Choices$16,50060%
Island Community Center Inc$16,00091%
Connecticut College$16,00090%
Downeast Community Partners Inc$15,00040%
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts$14,00090%
Downeast Family Young Mens Christian Association$14,00030%
Memorial Ambulance Corps$14,00091%
Maine Farmland Trust$13,00090%
Boca Grande Health Clinic Fndtn Inc$12,50050%
Friends in Action$12,50071%
Mory's Preservation Inc$12,00072%
Opera House Arts$11,50090%
The Fay School Inc$10,50050%
Blue Hill Historical Society$10,5009n/a
First Congregational Church of Blue Hill Maine$10,0002n/a
Blue Hill Fire Company$10,00052%
Maine Island Trail Association$9,00090%
Northern Light Health Foundation$8,50010%
Kollegewidgwok Sailing and Education Association$8,4001n/a
Drug Policy Alliance$8,00060%
Opiate Free Island Partnership Inc$8,00048%
Groton School$7,00090%
Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc$6,00010%
LifeFlight Foundation$6,00040%
Old Dartmouth Historical Society$6,00020%
The Santa Barbara Choral Society$5,00012%
Healthy Island Project Inc$5,00050%
Mercy Corps$5,00030%
Hancock County Agricultural Society$5,0001n/a
Friends of the Gardenaerial Inc$4,50021%
Rhode Island School of Design$4,30070%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$4,0001n/a
Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking Inc$4,00070%
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association$4,00040%
Bank Street College of Education$4,00040%
California Fire Foundation$4,00040%
Boca Grande Health Clinic Inc$4,00020%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$3,75040%
Sailors for the Sea Inc$3,50010%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$3,50040%
Pratt Institute$3,00070%
Live It Learn It$3,00030%
Equal Justice Initiative$3,00010%
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation$3,00030%
Engineers Without Borders-Usainc$3,00030%
Central City Concern$2,50030%
Ny Writers Coalition Inc$2,50050%
Growing Gardens$2,50030%
Brooklyn Public Library$2,50040%
The Pew Charitable Trusts$2,50010%
Wellspring House Inc$2,50010%
Gasparilla Isl Conser & Improve Assn$2,50010%
University of Rochester$2,50010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$2,00030%
Friend Memorial Public Library$2,0001n/a
The Fenn School$2,00060%
Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Friends of the Wellesley Free Libraries Inc$1,80041%
Call of the Sea$1,60010%
First Church of Deerfield$1,2503n/a
Historic Deerfield Inc$1,00020%
Boca Grande United Methodist Church$1,0001n/a
Bridges to Independence$1,00010%
The Loveland Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
The Advent School Corporation$1,00010%
Coastal Mountains Land Trust$1,00010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc$1,00020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$50010%
Tilton Fund Inc$50011%
Homeless Children's Playtime Project$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGeorge Stevens Academy: $313,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetKneisel Hall: $300,500 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $248,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBlue Hill Heritage Trust: $223,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetThe Jackson Laboratory: $190,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc: $190,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetWaring School Inc: $171,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetGfwc Naples Woman's Club Inc: $167,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetNew England Aquarium Corporation: $117,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Deerfield Academy: $89,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $88,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: $74,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $64,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Hill Public Library: $63,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetShaw Institute: $62,500 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $60,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPeninsula Ambulance Corps: $55,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetConcord Academy: $45,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $43,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetNew England Conservatory of Music: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Museum of Photographic Arts: $39,000 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetIsland Health & Wellness Foundation: $39,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetLobero Theatre Foundation: $35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetIsland Nursing Home Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of the Atlantic: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute: $28,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEmergency Assistance Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Workforce Housing: $20,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetOceana Inc: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Contemporary Art: $17,400 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $16,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Community Center Inc: $16,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetConnecticut College: $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDowneast Community Partners Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHaystack Mountain School of Crafts: $14,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDowneast Family Young Mens Christian Association: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMemorial Ambulance Corps: $14,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $13,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBoca Grande Health Clinic Fndtn Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends in Action: $12,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetMory's Preservation Inc: $12,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetOpera House Arts: $11,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetThe Fay School Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Hill Fire Company: $10,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 94.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME50.2× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Prior Family Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Raymond F and Judith K McCaskey 2003 Charitable Trust · The Martin Foundation · The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc · Hickrill Foundation Inc · Lawrence Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Sasco Foundation Xxxxx0008 · Laurence B Flood Foundation Inc

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.

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About Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee

How much does Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee give?
Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee reported 110 grants totaling $465,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 90 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (20%), Environment (15%).
Who are Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: George Stevens Academy ($314k), Kneisel Hall ($301k), Maine Coast Heritage Trust ($249k).
Does Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, The Clements Family Charitable Trust, Prior Family Foundation.
Where is Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee based?
Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee is based in FL.

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 176 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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