· Private foundation
Edmund and Mary Shea Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $268k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| AUGIES QUEST TO CURE ALS INC | $117,500 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES | $100,000 |
| LAS MADRINAS OF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL | $27,000 |
| JOHN TRACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| DON BOSCO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS | $10,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PASADENA ART ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MAYFIELD SENIOR SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- AQAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $673k · revenue +38%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE2× · 2019–2024 · $251k · revenue +53%- JTJOHN TRACY CLINIC5× · 2017–2024 · $146k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- CHCAROLINAS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION - THE PINSTRIPES FUNDone grant, 2018 · $125k
- OLOUR LADY OF MT CARMELone grant, 2023 · $50k
- NBNEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -91%
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 association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Vistamar school empowers students, preparing them to contribute and excel in higher education and in life, and commits to: a broad and balanced program that challenges and engages students, building their individual skills and inspiring a…
Our mission is to "empower children to fulfill their unlimited, god-given potential as fearless scholars and conscientious citizens."
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.
Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy and the most unlike its peers is Never Give Up Foundation. 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 53 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 95 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 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHN & COLLEEN MORRISSEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PASADENA ART ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DON BOSCO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · The Green Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Gail G Ellis 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 Edmund and Mary Shea Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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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