· Private foundation
Chester & Muriel Dawes Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region ↗
- Who funds HEARTY ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chester & Muriel Dawes Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chester & Muriel Dawes Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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