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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.

$181k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$29M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthRecreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving31$181k29%
FY202325$327k24%
FY202219$317k26%
FY202118$234k39%
FY202025$252k68%
FY201928$123k64%
FY201819$157k63%
FY201712$26kn/a
81% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.1MRecreation & Sports$98kHuman Services$78kEducation$72kArts & Culture$55kFood & Nutrition$54kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaineHealth: $1,000,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $101,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCamp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc: $68,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWindham Neighbors Helping Neighbors: $49,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWalk a Mile in Their Shoes: $17,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $15,100 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetChildren's Museum and Theatre of Maine: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPine Tree Society Inc: $7,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Aopa Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Historical Society: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Maine Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTravis Mills Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Regional Chamber: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSpecial Olympics Maine Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Grieving Children: $2,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresumpscot Regional Land Trust: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCamp O-AT-KA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRiding to the Top: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCumberland Farmers Club: $800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Farm Bureau Association: $534 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoon Echo Land Trust Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $250 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 28.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME25.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc

How much does Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc give?
Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $181,389 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (70%), Recreation & Sports (6%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: MaineHealth ($1.0M), LifeFlight Foundation ($101k), Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc ($69k).
Does Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc 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 Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation, Davis Family Foundation.
Where is Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc based?
Shaw Brothers Family Foundation Inc is based in ME.

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 86 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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