Massachusetts · Private foundation
Sheehan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $241k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 97%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $728k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 97% of the organizations Sheehan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 44 | $241k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $170k | 97% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $122k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $79k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $68k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $170k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $191k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocking the Boat Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Keys Children's Foundation Inc | $25,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $21,000 | 2 | 0% |
| STEM Alliance of Larchmont- Mamaroneck Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Save the Sound | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YMCA of the North Shore Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Harwich Conservation Trust | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| First Stage Milwaukee | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($801k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sheehan Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Sheehan Family Foundation
- How much does Sheehan Family Foundation give?
- Sheehan Family Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $241,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sheehan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Human Services (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Sheehan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rocking the Boat Inc ($80k), Keys Children's Foundation Inc ($26k), Milwaukee Art Museum Inc ($21k).
- Does Sheehan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 97% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sheehan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sheehan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sheehan Family Foundation based?
- Sheehan Family Foundation is based in MA.
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