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Benjamin L Donnell Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Youth Development$69kHealth$54kEducation$47kFood & Nutrition$26kHuman Services$24kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,009
Median grant
2
States reached
$602k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PINE TREE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OFAMERICA$5,473
GOOD WILL-HINCKLEY FARM$3,320
WAYFINDER SCHOOLS$3,320
SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES$3,320
MAINEHEALTH$3,009
PORTLAND BOYS CLUB ASSOCIATION$3,009
CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY$3,009
GIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE$3,009
Individual grant recipient$3,009
PINE TREE SOCIETY$545
1ST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH LONG BEACH$100
WEST FALMOUTH FREE BAPTIST CHURCH$50
COMMUNITY CHURCH OF NORTH WINDHAM$40
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES: $4k → 9%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $4k → 11%SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES: $3k → 9%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES: $3k → 9%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES: $3k → 9%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES: $3k → 9%SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES: $3k → 9%SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES: $3k → 9%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES: $2k → 9%SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES: $2k → 9%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $2k → 11%CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY: $3k → 7%CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY: $3k → 7%CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY: $3k → 7%CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY: $3k → 7%CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY: $3k → 7%CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY: $3k → 7%CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY: $2k → 7%CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY: $2k → 7%CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$240k · 20 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
4

Total granted

$240k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+138%

Still filing today

35%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionOther

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

  • S
    Sweetser
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +4%
  • CM
    Catherine Morrill Day Nursery
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +43%
  • M
    MaineHealth
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • PT
    PINE TREE SOC FOR CRIPPLED
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • TF
    THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LBgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100 · revenue +138%
  • FC
    FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $100

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

04Your field

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.

1
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.

2
Waypoint Maine Inc

Waypoint Maine provides a comprehensive array of programs that each year provides essential services and support to over 1,000 children and adults with special needs.

Human Services
3
Quarry Hill

To provide a full range of living options, high-quality health services and individualized care plans designed to respect older adults' varied interests, abilities and needs and promote independence and well-being.

Health
4
Maine Life Care Retirement Community Inc

Maine Life Care Retirement Community (dba Piper Shores) offers a vibrant retirement living lifestyle that enriches residents by providing a continuum of the highest quality of care and service. Piper Shores will help all residents realize…

Housing & Shelter
5
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…

6
Southern Maine Health Care

Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.

7
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
8
Lincolnhealth

LincolnHealth is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of our communities by assuring: the very best, highest quality, and compassionate health care services from highly trained professionals; our services are cost-effective…

9
Waldo County General Hospital

Waldo County General Hospital's mission is to be the BEST - Better, Empathy, Service and Teamwork. Our goal is to ensure quality, accessible and affordable health care services and to improve the health and well-being of our community.

10
LincolnHealth Group

LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.

11
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
12
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Inc

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sweetser and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of Maine. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PORTLAND BOYS CLUB ASSOCIATION — $23,584 · OtherPORTLAND BOYS CLUB ASSOCIATIONGOOD WILL FARM — $19,800 · OtherGOOD WILL FARMIndividual grant recipient — $18,820 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPINE TREE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF — $13,335 · OtherPINE TREE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OFTHE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS AT OPPORTUNITY — $8,151 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS AT OPPORTUNITYBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 0218 PINE TREE COUNCIL INC — $8,098 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 0218 PINE TREE COUNCIL INCGOOD WILL-HINCKLEY FARM — $6,216 · OtherGOOD WILL-HINCKLEY FARMIndividual grant recipient — $4,764 · OtherPINE TREE SOC FOR CRIPPLED — $4,254 · Other+8 more — $1,610 · OtherSweetser — $26,036 · Human ServicesSweetserCatherine Morrill Day Nursery — $23,584 · Human ServicesCatherine Morrill Day NurseryWAYFINDER SCHOOLS — $17,865 · Human ServicesWAYFINDER SCHOOLSMaineHealth — $23,584 · HealthMaineHealt…GIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE — $23,584 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT…PINE TREE SOCIETY INC — $21,480 · EducationPINE TREE…THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LB — $100 · Religion
Other$108,632Human Services$67,485Health$23,584Youth Development$23,584Education$21,480Religion$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSweetser — $26,036 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCatherine Morrill Day Nursery — $23,584 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMaineHealth — $23,584 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE — $23,584 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC — $21,480 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWAYFINDER SCHOOLS — $17,865 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 0218 PINE TREE COUNCIL INC — $8,098 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LB — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Sweetser
  • Who funds Catherine Morrill Day Nursery
  • Who funds MaineHealth
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE
  • Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 0218 PINE TREE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LB

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.

Bangor Savings Bank FoundationME15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · United Way Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Benjamin L Donnell Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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