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Chester & Muriel Dawes Charitable Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND | $100,000 |
| BOOTHBAY REGION YMCA | $100,000 |
| Hearty Roots | $50,000 |
| BOOTHBAY HARBOR ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BOOTHBAY REGION FOOD PANTRY | $4,484 |
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 (FY20–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- BRBOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN4× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +102%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region5× · 2020–2025 · $235k · revenue +37%
- MSMaine Seacoast Mission4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +1%
- LPLOCKER PROJECT (Maine)one grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Preserving our Maritime Heritage by supporting working waterfront, promoting sustainable practices, and embracing the educational opportunities this stewardship provides.
The organization aims to enhance the traditional character of Boothbay Harbor, with a particular focus on protecting the working waterfront and expanding public access to the water for the benefit of both residents and visitors.
Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust conserves and stewards vital natural areas, supports a vibrant local food system, and connects people with the natural world through inclusive education and recreation programs. Our goal is to protect our…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Promotion of the boothbay harbor area of maine for tourism and industry and maintenance of a regional information center for the general public.
The mission of the boothbay sea and science center is the advancement of sailing, boating and ocean sciences by minimizing economic and physical obstacles and further to develop independence, self-confidence, teamwork and volunteerism in…
To build affordable homes for working men and women.
The mission of the boothbay railway village is to conserve, display and interpret artifacts, authentic period structures and technologies utilized in maine during the historical period of the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as responsible, productive and caring citizens.
To encourage all aspects of yachting in the boothbay harbor region of maine.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
The primary purpose of this organization is to bring heating, food, monetary, and housing assistance to low income individuals and families providing a community navigator to help guide these families to other available assistance and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boothbay Region Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is James L Mckeown Boys and Girls Club of Woburn Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds HEARTY ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Region Land Trust ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club Foundation I ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn · Palmer Walbridge Foundation · Schacknow Family Foundation Inc · A R and Marylouise Tandy Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Chester & Muriel Dawes Charitable Foundation 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 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.
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