Massachusetts · Private foundation
Shaughnessy Charitable 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.
- $321k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Shaughnessy Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 19 | $321k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $238k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $346k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $359k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $339k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $313k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $264k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $194k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Burton Training Village Inc | $314,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Rodman For Kids Inc | $236,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Boston College High School | $175,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Catholic Schools Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Archdiocese of Boston Clergy Benefit Funding Trust | $100,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Teamsters Local 25 Autism Fund Inc | $76,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Archbishop Williams High School Inc | $60,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc | $57,500 | 7 | 0% |
| My Brothers Keeper Inc | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Alma Cares Inc | $52,500 | 6 | 30% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shaughnessy Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Wolf & Company Charitable Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation
How this is measured
About Shaughnessy Charitable Trust
- How much does Shaughnessy Charitable Trust give?
- Shaughnessy Charitable Trust reported 19 grants totaling $320,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shaughnessy Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (23%), Education (23%), Religion (16%).
- Who are Shaughnessy Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ron Burton Training Village Inc ($314k), Rodman For Kids Inc ($236k), Boston College High School ($175k).
- Does Shaughnessy Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shaughnessy Charitable 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 Shaughnessy Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arbella Insurance Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Shaughnessy Charitable Trust based?
- Shaughnessy Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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