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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| KNEISEL HALL | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION (CAMA) | $25,000 |
| KNEISEL HALL | $20,000 |
| KNEISEL HALL | $20,000 |
| BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST | $18,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $18,000 |
| JACKSON LABORATORY | $15,000 |
| LIFEFLIGHT OF MAINE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| THE WARING SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $9,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
128 repeat relationships: 70 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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
- EAEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -55%
- CACommunity Arts Music Associationone grant, 2024 · $25k
- SFSHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMENone grant, 2020 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 176 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- 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 THE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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