· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINE TREE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OFAMERICA | $5,473 |
| WAYFINDER SCHOOLS | $3,320 |
| SWEETSER CHILDREN SERVICES | $3,320 |
| GOOD WILL-HINCKLEY FARM | $3,320 |
| PORTLAND BOYS CLUB ASSOCIATION | $3,009 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE | $3,009 |
| MAINEHEALTH | $3,009 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,009 |
| CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY | $3,009 |
| PINE TREE SOCIETY | $545 |
| 1ST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH LONG BEACH | $100 |
| WEST FALMOUTH FREE BAPTIST CHURCH | $50 |
| COMMUNITY CHURCH OF NORTH WINDHAM | $40 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSweetser9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +4%
- MMaineHealth9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +239%
- CMCatherine Morrill Day Nursery9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- PTPINE TREE SOC FOR CRIPPLEDone grant, 2017 · $4k
- TFTHE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LBgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100 · revenue +138%
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $100
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.
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.
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…
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.
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
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…
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Benjamin L Donnell Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benjamin L Donnell Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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