· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LABOURE CENTER | $75,000 |
| RCAB CLERGY BENEFIT FUNDING TRUST | $50,000 |
| SOUTH BOSTON CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE | $22,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FUND | $20,000 |
| ALMA CARES INC | $15,000 |
| MY BROTHER'S KEEPER | $10,000 |
| RODMAN FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| THE IRELAND FUNDS FBO MANOOTH UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS | $10,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF BOSTON | $5,000 |
| TEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND INC | $5,000 |
| POPE ST JOHN XXIII NATIONAL SEMINARY | $5,000 |
| FATHER BILL'S AND MAINSPRING | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RBRon Burton Training Village Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $314k · revenue +447%
- TLTEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND INC8× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +113%
- FBFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC7× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FTFOUNDATION TO BE NAMED LATERone grant, 2020 · $16k
- SYSQUANTUM YACHT CLUBone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -14%
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.
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Striving to help cure neurological diseases, while empowering communities to build a healthier world.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
To assist charitable organizations that demonstrate a commitment to enhancing the quality of life for children and their families throughout new england. the foundation focuses on organizations that are concentrated on academics,…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To reach, inspire, support & empower individuals with spinal cord injuries
Massachusetts biomedical initiatives, inc. ("mbi or the organization") is a private non-profit corporation focusing on building up central massachusetts as a global biomanufacturing hub. our mission of being a partner for fostering…
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
The mission of the fund is to raise money through an annual charity golf tournament with all proceeds received being donated to children's hospital corporation d/b/a boston children's hospital (or other affiliated or non-affiliated…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 79 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds ALMA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC ↗
- Who funds GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SQUANTUM YACHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON WINTER BALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WINTHROP CHARITIES TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FUND OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shaughnessy Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shaughnessy Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- South Boston Collaborative Center Inc: 41% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc: 24% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
- Gavin Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc: 1% of income from government
- Als One Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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