Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN
SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being MANAGERS OF BOSTON PORT AND SEAMEN'S AID SOCIETY ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Shaw Fund for Mariners' Children does
Program
To provide assistance to needy mariners, their widows and children, in the commonwealth of massachusetts and elsewhere.
$909,306 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $19M to $15M (−20%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mary Ann Macaulay
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN?
- SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being MANAGERS OF BOSTON PORT AND SEAMEN'S AID SOCIETY ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17,500 in grants to SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN?
- MANAGERS OF BOSTON PORT AND SEAMEN'S AID SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHAW FUND FOR MARINERS' CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing