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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k99 grants · $231k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $234k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB | $35,000 |
| GEORGE STEVENS ACADEMY | $33,000 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION (CAMA) | $25,000 |
| KNEISEL HALL | $25,000 |
| KNEISEL HALL | $20,000 |
| KNEISEL HALL | $20,000 |
| BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST | $18,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $18,000 |
| LIFEFLIGHT OF MAINE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JACKSON LABORATORY | $15,000 |
| SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $9,000 |
| THE WARING SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
124 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 11 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
KNEISEL HALL8× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue +260%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust9× · 2017–2025 · $249k · revenue +106%- BHBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CACommunity Arts Music Associationone grant, 2024 · $25k
- SFSHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMENone grant, 2020 · $25k
- EAEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -55%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Island Workforce Housing. 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 43 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 189 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 George Stevens Academy ↗
- Who funds KNEISEL HALL ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds WARING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SHAW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Maine Museum of Photographic Arts ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEALTH & WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND NURSING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL ↗
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: 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
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 Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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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