· Private foundation
Jw Robinson Welfare 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNSON HALL INC | $17,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENNEBEC VAL | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,400 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL | $8,000 |
| CHRYSALIS PLACE | $6,500 |
| HEALTHY COMMUNITIES CAP AREA | $6,000 |
| GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATON | $4,500 |
| GARDINER ROTARY CLUB | $4,000 |
| FOOD FOR THOUGHT | $3,500 |
| FAITH FOOD PANTRY | $3,500 |
| LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S PARISH | $3,000 |
| KENNEBEC MENNONITE CHURCH | $3,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GARDINER | $3,000 |
| HIGHLAND AVE METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 80% 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
Backed again, and grew
- JHJohnson Hall Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +102%
- GLGARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +22%
- CPCHRYSALIS PLACE6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- TCTHOMAS COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +28%
- GPGARDINER PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $3k
- CMCENTRAL MAINE COMM COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $2k
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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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 53 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 Johnson Hall Inc ↗
- Who funds GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS PLACE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
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 · Davis Educational Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Cochran Gifford a Tr Uind · Higgins Mary E Educ Fund · Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC · Albert H Young · Frederic E Skillings Trust Uw · Sweetser Foundation Inc · Melmac Education Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jw Robinson Welfare Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jw Robinson Welfare Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Norwich University: 14% of income from government
- Western New England University: 0% of income from government
- Gordon College: 0% of income from government
- Nichols College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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