· Private foundation
Leonard and Renee Minsky Charitable Trst
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HUSSON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $2,500 |
| FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHAVURAT SHALMON OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $2,000 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| ST JOSEPH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| EASTERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $1,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL | $1,000 |
| COLLINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS-UMF | $1,000 |
| BANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +46% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% 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
- HOHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +63%
- HUHusson University7× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +38%
- SJSt Joseph Healthcare Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- BPBANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +43%
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIB COMM JDCone grant, 2023 · $2k
- USUNION STREET BRICK CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
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…
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…
The University of New England prepares students to thrive in a rapidly-changing world and, in so doing, to improve the health of people, communities, and our planet.
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…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
Maine Cancer Foundation is dedicated to reducing cancer incidence and mortality rates in Maine. 100% of funds raised by the Foundation are used to benefit the people of Maine.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 47 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 University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Husson University ↗
- Who funds St Joseph Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC ↗
- Who funds PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Eastern Maine Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGER LEARNING CNTR OF ME ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Cobscook Community Learning Center ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Bangor ↗
- Who funds BANGOR LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PEACE ↗
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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Heart of Maine United Way · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · The Oldenburg Family Foundation · Libra Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Fisher Charitable Foundation · The Mimi Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Webber Oil Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leonard and Renee Minsky Charitable Trst funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leonard and Renee Minsky Charitable Trst. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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