· Private foundation
Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $340k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINEY WOOD SCHOOL | $184,000 |
| HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| MID-COAST HEALTH NET INC (KNOX CLINIC) | $125,000 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE JACKSON LABORATORY | $82,500 |
| MAINEHEALTH | $55,000 |
| UNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP | $50,000 |
| Ethel Walker School Inc | $50,000 |
| WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART | $50,000 |
| SAIL MAINE | $50,000 |
| DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK HEALTH | $50,000 |
| PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| APPLE BLOSSOM SCHOOL AND FAMILY CENTER | $35,000 |
| WILD LANDSCAPES INC | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $247k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TJTHE JACKSON LABORATORY8× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +51%
- PWPiney Woods School8× · 2018–2025 · $928k · revenue +22%
- HFHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2025 · $535k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- HHomeworthygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +140%
- CNCAMDEN NATIONAL BANKone grant, 2022 · $110k
- NFNODEHEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue -52% · 33% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ↗
- Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NODEHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc — 33% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Real Organic Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- St Luke's Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Sharon Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.