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Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 at a glance

· Private foundation

Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$184k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

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
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Ethel Walker School Inc$50,000
WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART$50,000
SAIL MAINE$50,000
DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK HEALTH$50,000
OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP$50,000
UNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION$50,000
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
APPLE BLOSSOM SCHOOL AND FAMILY CENTER$35,000
WILD LANDSCAPES INC$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $3k → 8%ANNS PLACE INC: $10k → 9%ANNS PLACE INC: $10k → 9%ANNS PLACE INC: $10k → 9%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $25k → 11%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $150k → 11%ROCKLAND MAIN STREET INC: $12k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
MS
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 48 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
40

Total granted

$8.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $247k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +51%
  • PW
    Piney Woods School
    8× · 2018–2025 · $928k · revenue +22%
  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2025 · $535k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • H
    Homeworthygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +140%
  • NF
    NODEHEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue -52% · 33% of their budget
  • CN
    CAMDEN NATIONAL BANK
    one grant, 2022 · $110k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
3
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
4
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
5
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
9
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

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…

—
10
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
University of New Haven

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine; 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.
04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/67
Grantees still filing
45/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $1,368,500 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORYHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $535,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONMaineHealth: $345,000 · HealthMaineHealthDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $225,000 · HealthDartmouth-Hitchcock HealthBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $210,000 · HealthBRING CHANGE 2 MINDBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Health+11 more: $592,500 · Health+11 morePEN BAY WALDO HEALTHCARE: $540,000 · OtherPEN BAY WALDO HEALTHCAREMAINE MARITIME ACADEMY: $468,750 · OtherMAINE MARITIME ACADEMYWILD LANDSCAPES INC: $198,000 · OtherWILD LANDSCAPES INCMAINEHEALTH: $180,000 · OtherMAINEHEALTHOLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP: $150,000 · OtherMID-COAST HEALTH NET INC (KNOX CLINIC): $126,000 · OtherCAMDEN NATIONAL BANK: $110,000 · OtherMANUFACTURERS & TRADERS TRUST CO: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherUNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Other+36 more: $886,500 · Other+36 morePiney Woods School: $928,000 · EducationPiney Woods SchoolETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $505,000 · EducationETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INCWESTOVER SCHOOL INC: $220,000 · EducationWESTOVER SCHOOL INCTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $125,000 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL+14 more: $213,000 · Education+14 morePortland Museum of Art: $250,000 · Arts & CultureSAIL MAINE: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC: $75,000 · Arts & CulturePENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $250,000 · InternationalPartners for World Health: $13,000 · InternationalHomeworthy: $150,000 · Human ServicesANNS PLACE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $25,000 · Human ServicesROCKLAND MAIN STREET INC: $12,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $60,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND: $25,000 · EnvironmentReal Organic Project Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $10,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $5,000 · Environment
Health$3,436,000Other$2,959,250Education$1,991,000Arts & Culture$555,000International$263,000Human Services$219,500Environment$120,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $1,368,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPiney Woods School: $928,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $535,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $505,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMaineHealth: $345,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $250,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $250,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $225,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWESTOVER SCHOOL INC: $220,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $210,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHomeworthy: $150,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNODEHEALTH FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $108,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAIL MAINE: $90,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC: $60,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $58,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM: $55,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE APPLE BLOSSOM SCHOOL AND FAMILY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetParachute Bridge: $35,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANNS PLACE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CAMDEN CHILDRENS HOUSE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $26,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetReal Organic Project Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners for World Health: $13,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetROCKLAND MAIN STREET INC: $12,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPEOPLEPLACE: $11,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHARON ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PISTON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital ↗
  • Who funds PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE APPLE BLOSSOM SCHOOL AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗

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 Found…Maine Community Found…Fisher Charitable Fou…Sam L Cohen FoundationOnion FoundationElmina B Sewall Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Widgeon Point Cha…Middlecott FoundationSaco & Biddeford Savi…Davis Family Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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