· Private foundation
Howard and Espa Michaud Charitable Trust Fund
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STATE OF MAINE TREASURY DEPT | $7,840 |
| THE AROOSTOOK MEDICAL CENTER | $7,280 |
| PARISH OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD | $5,600 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $5,600 |
| CITY OF PRESQUE ISLE | $5,600 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,600 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $5,600 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT ORONO | $2,260 |
| NORTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,695 |
| HOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK | $1,680 |
| HUSSON UNIVERSITY | $1,616 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $1,130 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT PRESQUE ISLE | $1,130 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $565 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +53%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +38%
- HSHOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- VSVARIOUS SCHOLARSHIP DISTRIBUTIONSone grant, 2020 · $8k
- LCLEWIS & CLARK COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $800
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MAINE AUGUSTAone grant, 2023 · $800
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.
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Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 29 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.
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- Who funds HOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK INC ↗
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- Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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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 Howard and Espa Michaud Charitable Trust Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard and Espa Michaud Charitable Trust Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
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