· Private foundation
Charles & Sylvia Day Charitable 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 |
|---|---|
| Lustgarten Foundation | $5,000 |
| Lions Club Scarborough | $100 |
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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MLMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue -16%
- CNCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +19%
- ECEtz Chaim Synagogue8× · 2017–2024 · $4k
Funded once
- CMChildren's Museumone grant, 2022 · $475
- CMChildren's Museum Theatre of Maineone grant, 2021 · $350
- HOHospice of Southern Mainegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue +67%
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.
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.
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
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…
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…
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
The Maine Jewish Film Festival celebrates filmmakinginspiring conversation through the lens of global Jewish experience. Innovative programming invites a diverse statewide audience into the dialogue. Many of our programs include guest…
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Camp Casco builds community for families affected by childhood cancer in New England through free camps and social opportunities.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 22 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.
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Lunder Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles & Sylvia Day Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles & Sylvia Day Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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