· Private foundation
Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE | $21,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF ME | $10,000 |
| WALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES | $7,000 |
| SUSAN CURTIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AOPA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE | $5,000 |
| TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PINE TREE COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| MAINE 4H FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| CRESSEY ROAD UNITED METHODIST | $2,000 |
| REED ALLEN COMMUNITY FUND | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MMaineHealth7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +167%
- CSCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +12%
- WNWINDHAM NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS6× · 2017–2023 · $49k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- MCMORRISON CENTER - OPPORTUNITY FARMone grant, 2019 · $50k
- MHMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +39%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.
Maine Cancer Foundation is dedicated to reducing cancer incidence and mortality rates in Maine. 100% of funds raised by the Foundation are used to benefit the people of Maine.
The Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Walk a Mile in Their Shoes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES ↗
- Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND REGIONAL CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Westbrook Gorham ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds Presumpscot Regional Land Trust ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Martin's Point Health Care Inc · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Lunder Foundation · Narragansett Number One Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundation · Libra Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.