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Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust

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.

$46k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,025
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$840k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$46k19%
FY202419$46k21%
FY202319$40k21%
FY202224$29k29%
FY202123$38k43%
FY202022$16k55%
FY201912$22k42%
FY201810$25k80%
78% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$161kFood & Nutrition$38kHealth$20kEnvironment$14kEducation$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kScience & Tech$4kReligion$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CA
KY
VA
NC
DC
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $95,470 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Harvest Ltd: $36,790 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOpening Act Inc: $19,885 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPeconic Land Trust Inc: $9,287 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $8,212 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Louvre Inc: $6,529 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetQueens College Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $4,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Uffizi Gallery: $3,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $2,560 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Prado Museum: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCarle Place Education Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetOyster Bay Railroad Museum: $1,650 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $1,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe V Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Cole Historic House: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Olana Partnership: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildfund International USA: $263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Baldrick's Foundation Inc: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of the Berkshire Museum: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust

How much does Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust give?
Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust reported 21 grants totaling $45,903 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Health (7%).
Who are Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($95k), Island Harvest Ltd ($37k), Opening Act Inc ($20k).
Does Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust based?
Maurice J Cotter & Muriel J Sheahan Charitable Foundation Trust is based in NY.

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 64 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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