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John T Shea Charitable Foundation Xxxxx4009 at a glance

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John T Shea Charitable Foundation Xxxxx4009

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$132kCrime & Legal$85kPhilanthropy$42kHousing & Shelter$7kHealth$3k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$616k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD ADVOCATES INC$10,000
SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN (DBA ARMS WIDE)$10,000
CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND$7,980
BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN (DBA ARMS WIDE): $10k → 16%THE WOMENS HOME: $5k → 16%THE WOMENS HOME: $2k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $5k → 16%BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$256k · 8 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$256k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+44%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyCivil RightsHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CD
    CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $71k · revenue +11%
  • TW
    The Women's Resource of Greater Houston
    6× · 2018–2024 · $42k · revenue +161%
  • BB
    BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • ES
    EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +44%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
2
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
3
Casa Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc

Child Advocates of Montgomery County empowers vulnerable children through volunteer advocacy and strengthens their family and community with education, so they can flourish in a safe, nurturing environment.

Civil Rights
4
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc

Recruit, train and supervise volunteers to advocate for abused, neglected and abandoned children placed in foster homes. CASA volunteers ensure children's best interests remain the priority and their needs met while working to establish a…

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5
Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Heart of Texas

Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights
6
Casa of West CenLA Inc

Provide children representation before the judicial system

Crime & Legal
7
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
8
Casa Childrens Intervention Services Inc

Provide a voice in a court for abused and neglected children through volunteer court and appointed advocates.

Civil Rights
9
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
10
Casa of Southwest Oklahoma Inc

Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children

Crime & Legal
11
Advocates for Children and Families

Child and family advocacy related to abuse

Human Services
12
Childrens Advocacy Center of Hidalgo County Inc

The childrens advocacy center of hidalgo county, inc. provides services to abused children. services include on-site referrals for medical services. the organization follows up with authorities on efforts against the perpetrators of the…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc; the most unlike its peers is Northwest Assistance Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $71,000 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INCARMS WIDE OPEN ADOPTION SERVICES: $11,067 · OtherARMS WIDE OPEN ADOPTION SERVICESCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $67,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD ADVOCATES INCNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MI…SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · Human ServicesSPAULDING FOR CHILDRENBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $9,744 · Human ServicesBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR …THE WOMEN'S HOME: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOMEThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston: $42,302 · PhilanthropyThe Women's Resou…Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $17,980 · Civil RightsEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $3,205 · Health
Other$82,067Crime & Legal$67,000Human Services$56,744Philanthropy$42,302Civil Rights$17,980Health$3,205

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $71,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $67,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston: $42,302 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $17,980 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $9,744 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $3,205 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…The Junior League of …Charity Guild of Cath…Texas Center for Chil…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Texas Center for Child and Family Studies · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John T Shea Charitable Foundation Xxxxx4009 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John T Shea Charitable Foundation Xxxxx4009. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 10 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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