Shaw helped found the Friends of the La Trobe Library, now incorporated as the State Library Foundation,[REF] and was President of the C.J. La Trobe Society[REF] from 2002 to 2003.
He was a benefactor to Melbourne Opera,[REF] and, due to his long association through art connections of his wife, Peggy Perrins Shaw (1917-2009), a major supporter and benefactor of the National Gallery of Victoria, creating the Shaw Research Library, now home to over 50,000 volumes [REF].