· Private foundation
Helen R Coe Trust
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE | $10,000 |
| PAUL SMITH COLLEGE | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE | $9,000 |
| MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $9,000 |
| LOVELL UNITED CHURCH | $8,215 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,215 |
| LOVELL BRICK CHURCH FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $8,215 |
| LOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $8,215 |
| THOMAS COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - AUGUSTA | $5,308 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $4,079 |
| NEW SUNCOOK SCHOOL | $4,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Helen R Coe Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in ME; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- PSPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +6%
EMMANUEL COLLEGE3× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +22%- CHCHARLOTTE HOBBS MEMORIAL LIBRARY4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- FAFryeburg Academygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +48%
- WMWHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $9k
- NUNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELANDone grant, 2022 · $9k
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.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emmanuel College and the most unlike its peers is Stoneham Rescue Service Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 52 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 LOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE HOBBS MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CURRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Fryeburg Academy ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Davis Educational Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Helen R Coe Trust 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.
- Landmark College Inc — 6% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 1% of income from government
- Curry College — 0% of income from government
- Simmons University — 0% of income from government
- Babson College — 0% of income from government
- Endicott College — 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 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.