· Private foundation
Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUBLIC LIBRARY OF NEW LONDON | $50,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CHURCH CORPORATION | $28,000 |
| HIGHER EDGE INC | $12,000 |
| NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER | $12,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CT | $10,000 |
| HOPE INC | $10,000 |
| CITY OF NEW LONDON | $10,000 |
| SAFE FUTURES INC | $8,500 |
| THE COVENANT SHELTER OF NEW LONDON INC | $7,500 |
| SE CT COMMUNITY CTR FOR THE BLIND | $7,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| EXPRESSIONES CULTURAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| THAMES VALLEY CNCL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION | $5,000 |
| EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY INC | $4,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- TPThe Public Library of New London8× · 2018–2025 · $368k · revenue +55%
- SFSafe Futures Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +71%
- CACHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC5× · 2018–2022 · $68k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- SMST MARY STAR OF THE SEA CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $30k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +8%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SE CTone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
Newtown housing for the elderly, inc., ("nhe"), is a non-profit organization established to provide low cost housing for those persons aged sixty-two or older and to those persons who are handicapped or disabled. nhe operates nunnawauk…
To provide educational and recreational medium to residents of the Town of New Hartford and the Mid-York Library region.
To improve the quality of life for economically disadvantaged individuals by providing the necessary resources to increase their standard of living, foster self improvement, and to maximize self empowerment.
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
The mission of Martin House, Inc. is to provide a nurturing community where individuals of limited income who have been alone, alienated, fearful, and dispossessed can develop healthy relationships, new dignity, and a renewed life. Our…
New neighborhoods, inc.'s purpose is to develop, redevelop, own and manage quality housing for low and moderate income persons and families and to work to assist in the planning, re-planning, development and improvement of low and moderate…
To be an educational, cultural, social and recreational "safe have" of opportunity for the diverse ethnic populations of Greater Hartford
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
DVCC's role is to help those experiencing any level of domestic violence and assist them in building a safer environment for the well-being of themselves and their families. Our services include housing and financial advocacy, legal…
To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
The purpose of the Organization is to foster economic security for low-to-moderate income elderly, mobility impaired handicapped, and families by providing affordable housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New London Homeless Hospitality Center and the most unlike its peers is Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 The Public Library of New London ↗
- Who funds HIGHER EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Covenant Shelter of New London Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Thames River Community Service Inc ↗
- Who funds EXPRESSIONES CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds South East Connecticut Community Center of the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Mary E Est Tr Uw 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The New London Community Meal Center Inc — 92% of income from government
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 66% of income from government
- Thames River Community Service Inc — 62% of income from government
- The Covenant Shelter of New London Inc — 47% of income from government
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 39% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 20% of income from government
- Higher Edge Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Public Library of New London — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
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.