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Shea Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+77%

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
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.

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%
  • SL
    STORM LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    2× · 2018–2025 · $1k · revenue +176%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2025 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

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.

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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,…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beartooth Billings Clinic Foundation; 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shea Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shea Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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