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Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
31%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$4.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2025still arriving14$175k14%
FY202416$172k31%
FY202314$210k57%
FY202213$170k0%
FY202114$175k0%
FY202017$176k6%
FY201917$185k29%
FY201815$170kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$481kFood & Nutrition$189kHousing & Shelter$168kHuman Services$159kScience & Tech$135kReligion$114kPublic Safety & Disaster$53kArts & Culture$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, 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 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($556k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Public Library of New London: $367,600 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetHigher Edge Inc: $74,000 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $73,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetChild and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: $67,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe New London Community Meal Center Inc: $54,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetThe Covenant Shelter of New London Inc: $49,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetNew London Area Food Pantry: $46,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetThames River Community Service Inc: $25,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetExpressiones Cultural Center Inc: $23,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetNew London Homeless Hospitality Center: $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra Incorporated: $14,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHigh Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetConnecticut College: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Norwich Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouth East Connecticut Community Center of the Blind Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNew England Science & Sailing Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 17.

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.

Chelsea Groton FoundationCT36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · R S Gernon Trust · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Helios Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable 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 Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw

How much does Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw give?
Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw reported 14 grants totaling $175,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
Who are Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Public Library of New London ($368k), Higher Edge Inc ($74k), Safe Futures Inc ($73k).
Does Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chelsea Groton Foundation, The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc, Dime Bank Foundation Inc.
Where is Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw based?
Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw is based in TX.

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 36 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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