· Private foundation
John C Enk Char Residual 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, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FIRST CHURCH IN BELFAST | $11,198 |
| TREASURER CITY OF BELFAST | $11,198 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE | $8,850 |
| ALPHA CHI RHO EDUC FND INC | $6,825 |
| PINE TREE SOCIETY INC | $4,550 |
| SWEETSER | $4,550 |
| PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM | $4,550 |
| BELFAST FREE LIBRARY | $4,550 |
| PINE TREE STATE 4-H CLUB FDN | $4,550 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $4,550 |
| WALDO COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL | $4,550 |
| BELFAST PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING | $4,550 |
| MAINE SEACOAST MISSIONARY SOC | $4,550 |
| MARY S ENK MEM MUSIC LIBRARY FD | $3,185 |
| BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $2,275 |
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 (FY22–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -32% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BFBelfast Free Library4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +39%
- BTBangor Theological Seminary4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +685%
- PTPINE TREE SOCIETY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- COCITY OF BELFASTone grant, 2022 · $14k
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -32%- UOUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
Bangor Historical Society's Mission is to share the region's rich history with the community and its visitors through research, education and programs.
LincolnHealth is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of our communities by assuring: the very best, highest quality, and compassionate health care services from highly trained professionals; our services are cost-effective…
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 32 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.
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John C Enk Char Residual Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John C Enk Char Residual Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
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