· Private foundation
David P Wheatland Charitable Trust
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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $465k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $175,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| HOUGHTON LIBRARY | $80,000 |
| LOVELANE | $55,038 |
| PEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY | $55,000 |
| PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM | $22,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of its 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.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 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
- HLHoughton Library4× · 2022–2025 · $488k
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2021–2025 · $465k
- COCOLLECTION OF HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $458k
Funded once
- CSCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +35%
- LFLoaves & Fishes Food Pantry - Ellsworthone grant, 2022 · $17k
- ISINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +4%
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 connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Marine Conservation
The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.
To educate the world about camden's rich maritime heritage and significant contributions to global shipbuilding and seafaring exploration.
The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
The mission of the museum of science is to inspire a lifelong love of science in everyone. through exhibits, curricula, programs, and events, both live and virtual, we aim to make science and scientific thinking accessible, engaging, and…
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 15 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 PEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds HANOVER IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY CORPORATION ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David P Wheatland Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David P Wheatland Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc: 10% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
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