Maine · Private foundation
Helen R Coe Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $130k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 19
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Helen R Coe Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $138k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $140k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $152k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $126k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $106k | 79% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lovell Historical Society | $46,215 | 5 | 25% |
| Paul Smith College | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Emmanuel College | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library | $22,014 | 4 | n/a |
| Sunshine Backpack Food Program | $21,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Bowdoin College | $20,220 | 3 | 0% |
| Thomas College | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Simmons College | $15,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Curry College | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Great Bay Community College | $11,500 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lovell Historical Society | $46,215 | 5 | 25% |
| Paul Smith College | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Emmanuel College | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library | $22,014 | 4 | n/a |
| Sunshine Backpack Food Program | $21,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Bowdoin College | $20,220 | 3 | 0% |
| Thomas College | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Simmons College | $15,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Curry College | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Great Bay Community College | $11,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Fryeburg Academy | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Giving Tree Foundation | $9,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Maine Maritime Academy | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Savannah College of Art and Design | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Endicott College | $7,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Colby Sawyer College | $7,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Maine College of Art | $7,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Landmark College | $7,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Babson College | $7,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Stonehill College | $7,600 | 1 | 0% |
| American University | $5,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Lewis Dana Hill Memorial Library | $3,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Clarkson University | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stoneham Rescue Service | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lovell Area Food Pantry | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| United Ambulance Service | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sweden Food Pantry | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($423k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helen R Coe Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Helen R Coe Trust
- How much does Helen R Coe Trust give?
- Helen R Coe Trust reported 23 grants totaling $130,247 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Helen R Coe Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Arts & Culture (11%), Public Safety & Disaster (6%).
- Who are Helen R Coe Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lovell Historical Society ($46k), Paul Smith College ($26k), Emmanuel College ($25k).
- Does Helen R Coe Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen R Coe Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen R Coe Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Davis Educational Foundation, Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc, Davis Family Foundation.
- Where is Helen R Coe Trust based?
- Helen R Coe Trust is based in ME.
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