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Shea Family 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$178kHealth$21kHuman Services$18kEducation$16kReligion$15kEnvironment$14kAnimals$11kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$18,090
Median grant
1
States reached
$83k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIWANIS FOUNDATION$18,090
BUENA VISTA COUNTY SOIL & WATER$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS: $3k → 13%PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS: $3k → 13%PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS: $3k → 13%PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS: $3k → 13%PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS: $3k → 13%PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$286k · 19 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$286k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+70%

Still filing today

42%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +141%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    7× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +94%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    2× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +70%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2025 · $1k
  • SL
    STORM LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    2× · 2018–2025 · $1k · revenue +176%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Billings Clinic

Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.

Health
2
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
3
Methodist Fremont Health

The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…

Health
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Physicians Clinic Inc

Methodist physicians clinic provides accessible, quality medical care through its integrated team of health professionals, including specialists in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery,…

Health
6
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Inc

We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint alphonsus regional medical center is a member of saint…

Health
7
Nebraska Heart Hospital

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

8
Straith Hospital for Special Surgery

To improve the health status of our patients and provide high levels of satisfaction to our physicians.

Health
9
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health

Nebraska methodist college of nursing & allied health is a health professions institution providing education in healthcare related fields.

10
Brodstone Memorial Hospital

Our mission is to provide exceptional and progressive healthcare to the communities we serve.

Health
11
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

12
Sturdy Memorial Hospital Inc

The hospital's mission is to provide high quality care to the sick and injured, on both an inpatient and outpatient basis, without regard to race, creed, national origin, age, gender, disability, or ability to pay. (continued on schedule…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beartooth Billings Clinic Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Buena Vista County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KIWANIS FOUNDATION — $175,704 · OtherKIWANIS FOUNDATIONBUENA VISTA COUNTY SOIL & WATER — $13,500 · OtherTLC ANIMAL SHELTER CANINE CENTER — $10,500 · OtherBUENA VISTA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER-WOMENS' CENTER-CIRCLE OF LIFE — $10,500 · OtherLAKESIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $9,000 · Other+10 more — $35,900 · Other+10 morePARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS INC — $18,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT ALS INC — $3,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,100 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $1,100 · HealthMEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $1,100 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $500 · HealthDIRECT RELIEF — $7,200 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationS O S THRIFT STORE — $500 · EducationBEARTOOTH BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION — $400 · Philanthropy
Other$255,104Human Services$18,000Health$7,800International$7,200Education$2,500Philanthropy$400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS INC — $18,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $7,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION — $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTORM LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetS O S THRIFT STORE — $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEARTOOTH BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION — $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS INC
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF
  • Who funds BUENA VISTA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds PROJECT ALS INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds STORM LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
  • Who funds S O S THRIFT STORE
  • Who funds BEARTOOTH BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Shea Family Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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