· Private foundation
Sheehan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $146k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKING THE BOAT | $40,000 |
| EAGLES WINGS | $25,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $10,500 |
| SAVE THE SOUND | $10,000 |
| ONE CHANCE TO GROW UP | $10,000 |
| HORIZON FOR HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| STEM ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE SOUND | $10,000 |
| FIELDS FOR KIDS PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD COMMUNITY FISH | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF NORTHSHORE | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATRE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
43 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue +19%
- SASTEM ALLIANCE OF LARCHMONT- MAMARONECK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +13%
YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CTCONTRIBUTION TO COLLEGE OF HOLY CROSSone grant, 2020 · $25k
- LWLITTLE WOMEN'S FUND OF GR MILWAUKEEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- GTGrant to Jones River Watershed Associationone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
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.
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
Making the arts accessible to all
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
The milwaukee public museum inspires curiosity, excites minds and increases desire to preserve and protect our world's natural and cultural diversity through exhibitions, educational programs, collections and research.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 111 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STEM ALLIANCE OF LARCHMONT- MAMARONECK INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sheehan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheehan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc: 6% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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