· Private foundation
Helen W Fuller Testamentary 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUGUSTA COLONIAL THEATER | $2,500 |
| CAPITOL AREA RECREATION ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST | $2,000 |
| VILES ARBORETUM | $1,700 |
| AUGUSTA AREA TEEN CENTER | $1,500 |
| KENNEBEC VALLEY YMCA | $1,000 |
| AUGUSTA FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| FORT WESTERN MUSEUM ENDOWMENT FUND | $500 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER | $500 |
| BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF LITHGOW LIBRARY | $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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VAViles Arboretum5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +15%
- CACapitol Area Recreation Association2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +76%
- AFAUGUSTA FOOD BANK4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- CACAPITOL AREA RECREATIONAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k
- ASAugusta School Departmentone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CCCHILDRENS CENTER CHARITABLE TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
The mission of the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust is to conserve, restore, and instill appreciation of the land and water resources of the Kennebec Estuary for the benefit of today's communities and future generations.
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
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…
Friends of Acadia preserves, protects, and promotes stewardship of the outstanding natural beauty, ecological vitality, and distinctive cultural resources of Acadia National Park and surrounding communities for the inspiration and…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Protect for public benefit land and water in the bangor region that have special ecological, natural, scenic, agricultural, or recreational significance; increase public understanding of the value of land and water conservation.
The mission of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Inc. is to inspire meaningful connections among people and nature and promote plant conservation through horticulture, education, and plant science.
The bangor region ymca is a community leader in supporting children, adults, and families in their lifelong quest for physical, emotional, and social wellness.
The bangor public library strives to inspire, enlighten, and enrich its members by connecting them to books, information, and ideas needed for work, recreation, education, and inspiration by providing excellent library service to its…
MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.
Woodlawn nurtures curiosity and a sense of place by promoting downeast maine's cultural heritage through educational and recreational experiences. under the governance of the hancock county trustees of public reservations, woodlawn offers…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 Viles Arboretum ↗
- Who funds Capitol Area Recreation Association ↗
- Who funds Kennebec Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LITHGOW LIBRARY ↗
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: Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Es & Mj Mayer Foundation · Elsie & William Viles Foundation · Sheaffer Lewis J Community Pfdn · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen W Fuller Testamentary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen W Fuller Testamentary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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