Montana · Private foundation
James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $275k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $20k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $13k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $16k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $17k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $19k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $17k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lords Cupboard | $11,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Good Shepherd Clinic Inc | $8,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Bella Pregnancy Resource Center | $7,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Adams Museum & House Inc | $6,800 | 7 | 1% |
| Teen Court | $6,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Twin City Clothing Center | $4,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Historic Homestake Opera House Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northern Hills Area Casa Program | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
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: Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust
- How much does James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust give?
- James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (63%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Animals (8%).
- Who are James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Lords Cupboard ($11k), Good Shepherd Clinic Inc ($9k), Bella Pregnancy Resource Center ($8k).
- Does James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust based?
- James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust is based in MT.
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