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Helen R Coe Trust at a glance

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Helen R Coe Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$513kArts & Culture$81kPublic Safety & Disaster$44kFood & Nutrition$38kYouth Development$35kReligion$12kRecreation & Sports$10kPhilanthropy$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$7,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$10,000
MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY$9,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE$9,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$9,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$9,000
PAUL SMITH COLLEGE$9,000
LOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY$8,215
LOVELL BRICK CHURCH FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$8,215
Individual grant recipient$8,215
LOVELL UNITED CHURCH$8,215
THOMAS COLLEGE$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - AUGUSTA$5,308
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE$4,079
SUNSHINE BACKPACK FOOD PROGRAM$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $8k → 10%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $9k → 16%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY AT COBLE: $8k → 10%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $8k → 14%PAUL SMITH COLLEGE: $9k → 16%GREAT BAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $9k → 5%WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $9k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $12k → 15%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $8k → 16%PAUL SMITH COLLEGE: $9k → 16%THOMAS COLLEGE: $8k → 12%CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $10k → 15%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $8k → 16%PAUL SMITH COLLEGE: $8k → 16%LOVELL RECREATION DEPARTMENT: $12k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $10k → 15%SIMMONS COLLEGE: $8k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $11k → 7%LOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $10k → 7%LOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $9k → 7%LOVELL RECREATION DEPARTMENT: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $9k → 7%LOVELL BRICK CHURCH FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $9k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $8k → 7%LOVELL RECREATION DEPARTMENT: $9k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $8k → 7%LOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $9k → 15%LOVELL UNITED CHURCH: $9k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $8k → 15%LOVELL BRICK CHURCH FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $8k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $8k → 15%LOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $8k → 15%LOVELL UNITED CHURCH: $8k → 13%LOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 13%FRYEBURG RESCUE: $11k → 13%FRYEBURG ACADEMY: $10k → 13%FRYEBURG RESCUE: $8k → 13%FRYEBURG RESCUE: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Helen R Coe Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in ME; by stated purpose, 84%.

Helen R Coe Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$589k · 22 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$589k
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+36%

Still filing today

36%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PS
    PAUL SMITH COLLEGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +6%
  • EMMANUEL COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +22%
  • CH
    CHARLOTTE HOBBS MEMORIAL LIBRARY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • FA
    FRYEBURG ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +48%
  • NU
    NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • WM
    WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Dean College

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,…

Education
2
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
5
Dickinson College

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

Education
6
Western New England University

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…

Education
7
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
8
Macalester College

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.

Education
9
Nichols College

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…

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Amherst College Trustees

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emmanuel College; 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.
05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $115,506 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINEUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $74,409 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINEIndividual grant recipient: $42,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $39,385 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLOVELL BRICK CHURCH FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $27,533 · OtherLOVELL BRICK CHURCH FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSNEW SUNCOOK SCHOOL: $24,633 · OtherSUNSHINE BACKPACK FOOD PROGRAM: $21,500 · OtherLOVELL UNITED CHURCH: $20,248 · Other+21 more: $119,230 · Other+21 morePAUL SMITH COLLEGE: $26,000 · EducationPAUL SMITH COLLEGEEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationEMMANUEL COLLEGECHARLOTTE HOBBS MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $22,014 · EducationCHARLOTTE HOBBS MEMORIAL LIBRARYBOWDOIN COLLEGE: $20,220 · EducationBOWDOIN COLLEGETHOMAS COLLEGE: $16,000 · EducationTHOMAS COLLEGESIMMONS COLLEGE: $15,600 · EducationSIMMONS COLLEGECURRY COLLEGE: $12,000 · EducationCURRY COLLEGEFRYEBURG ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $8,000 · EducationROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $8,000 · EducationSAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $8,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE: $7,600 · EducationCOLBY SAWYER COLLEGE: $7,600 · EducationMAINE COLLEGE OF ART: $7,600 · EducationBABSON COLLEGE: $7,600 · EducationSTONEHILL COLLEGE: $7,600 · Education+2 more: $8,350 · EducationLOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $46,215 · Arts & CultureSTONEHAM RESCUE SERVICE: $2,000 · HealthUNITED AMBULANCE SERVICE: $1,000 · HealthLOVELL AREA FOOD PANTRY: $1,500 · Food & NutritionSWEDEN FOOD PANTRY: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$484,444Education$217,184Arts & Culture$46,215Health$3,000Food & Nutrition$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $46,215 over 5y, 25% of budgetPAUL SMITH COLLEGE: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOWDOIN COLLEGE: $20,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS COLLEGE: $15,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURRY COLLEGE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRYEBURG ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $7,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLBY SAWYER COLLEGE: $7,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART: $7,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARK COLLEGE: $7,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $7,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE: $7,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHAM RESCUE SERVICE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED AMBULANCE SERVICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDEN FOOD PANTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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 LOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PAUL SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE HOBBS MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds BOWDOIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CURRY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FRYEBURG ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLBY SAWYER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART ↗
  • Who funds LANDMARK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Davis Educational Fou…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Davis Family Foundati…Maine Community Found…Fidelity FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Davis Educational FoundationME15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Helen R Coe Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen R Coe Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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