How much does Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 give?

Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 reported 44 grants totaling $1,428,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (26%), Science & Tech (14%).

Who are Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Jackson Laboratory ($1.4M), Piney Woods School ($928k), Honorhealth Foundation ($535k).

Does Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Fisher Charitable Foundation.

Where is Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 based?

Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 44
Grants FY2025: 40
Organizations funded FY2024: 38%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $184,000
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 40; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 12
Total assets, FY2025: $8.8M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	42	$1.4M	26%
FY2024	40	$1.2M	38%
FY2023	25	$1.0M	40%
FY2022	17	$1.2M	35%
FY2021	17	$1.1M	12%
FY2020	26	$1.2M	42%
FY2019	29	$1.4M	28%
FY2018	36	$951k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$3.1MEducation$2.5MScience & Tech$1.4MArts & Culture$628kCommunity Improvement$430kEnvironment$406kInternational$282kRecreation & Sports$217kOther$0

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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Jackson Laboratory	$1,368,500	8	0%
Piney Woods School	$928,000	8	4%
Honorhealth Foundation	$535,000	5	1%
Ethel Walker School Inc	$505,000	5	1%
Maine Maritime Academy	$468,750	6	n/a
MaineHealth	$345,000	6	0%
Hope 4 Kids International	$250,000	5	2%
Portland Museum of Art	$250,000	8	0%
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health	$225,000	6	1%
Westover School Inc	$220,000	8	1%

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All grantees of Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Jackson Laboratory	$1,368,500	8	0%
Piney Woods School	$928,000	8	4%
Honorhealth Foundation	$535,000	5	1%
Ethel Walker School Inc	$505,000	5	1%
Maine Maritime Academy	$468,750	6	n/a
MaineHealth	$345,000	6	0%
Hope 4 Kids International	$250,000	5	2%
Portland Museum of Art	$250,000	8	0%
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health	$225,000	6	1%
Westover School Inc	$220,000	8	1%
Bring Change 2 Mind	$210,000	3	8%
Barrow Neurological Foundation	$160,000	3	0%
Homeworthy	$150,000	1	7%
The Hotchkiss School	$125,000	6	0%
Nodehealth Foundation	$110,000	1	33%
LifeFlight Foundation	$108,500	4	3%
National Kidney Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	0%
United States Sailing Association Inc	$100,000	2	1%
Sail Maine	$90,000	3	2%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc	$75,000	1	2%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$60,000	3	0%
Coastal Mountains Land Trust	$60,000	3	1%
Hands Across the Sea Inc	$60,000	4	6%
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital	$58,000	3	0%
Penobscot Marine Museum	$55,000	3	3%
Machias Bay Chamber Concerts Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
The Apple Blossom School and Family Center Inc	$50,000	2	4%
Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine	$50,000	2	1%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$50,000	2	n/a
Ding Darling Wildlife Society Inc	$45,000	3	1%
Parachute Bridge	$35,000	1	25%
St Luke's Foundation Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Anns Place Inc	$30,000	3	1%
The Camden Childrens House Montessori School	$26,000	5	2%
Penobscot Bay YMCA	$25,000	1	0%
Children's Hospital Corporation	$25,000	1	0%
Defenders of Wildlife	$25,000	1	0%
Finding Our Voices	$25,000	1	n/a
Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine	$20,000	1	4%
Staniel Cay St Lukes Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Real Organic Project Inc	$20,000	1	1%
The New Canaan Country School Incorporated	$15,000	3	0%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$14,000	1	n/a
Partners for World Health	$13,000	4	1%
Rockland Main Street Inc	$12,000	1	11%
Peopleplace	$11,000	3	2%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School	$10,000	1	0%
The Sharon Academy Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Piston Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Georgetown University	$10,000	1	0%
The Hurricane Island Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Maine Behavioral Healthcare	$10,000	1	n/a
Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship	$10,000	1	1%
The Center for Cartoon Studies	$8,000	1	1%
Family Planning Association of Maine Inc	$6,000	3	0%
Riley School	$6,000	4	0%
Shelburne Farms	$5,000	1	0%
Mid-Coast Recreation Center Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Abbe Museum	$5,000	1	0%
The Tanzanian Childrens Fund Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Milton Academy	$2,000	1	0%
Camden Conference	$1,500	2	0%
Maine Cancer Foundation	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 61.

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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.

Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000IL41.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000 · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001

How much does Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 give?: Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 reported 44 grants totaling $1,428,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (26%), Science & Tech (14%).
Who are Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Jackson Laboratory ($1.4M), Piney Woods School ($928k), Honorhealth Foundation ($535k).
Does Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Fisher Charitable Foundation.
Where is Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 based?: Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 is based in IL.