Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $112,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $1.0M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $1.1M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $813k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $917k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $595k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $540k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads for Kids Inc | $633,800 | 6 | 4% |
| The Valedictorian Project Inc | $360,000 | 4 | 20% |
| School on Wheels of Massachusetts Inc | $310,000 | 5 | 6% |
| House of Possibilities Inc | $275,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Community Servings Inc | $260,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Charity Guild Inc | $220,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Spoonfuls | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Starting Right Now | $172,060 | 4 | 2% |
| The Cape and Islands Veterans Outreach Center Inc | $168,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc | $153,200 | 4 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($433k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation
- How much does The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation give?
- The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,016,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (20%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Education (19%).
- Who are The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Crossroads for Kids Inc ($634k), The Valedictorian Project Inc ($360k), School on Wheels of Massachusetts Inc ($310k).
- Does The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc, Arbella Insurance Foundation.
- Where is The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation based?
- The Jack and Kathy Shields Family Foundation is based in MA.
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