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Lois M Gauthier Charitable Trust at a glance

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Lois M Gauthier Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$20kHuman Services$11kEducation$5kReligion$4kCommunity Improvement$2kHealth$1kArts & Culture$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$533k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Habitat for Humanity International$5,000
Community Care$5,000
Bangor Area Homeless Shelter$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Partners for Peace: $750 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30k · 3 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
14

Total granted

$30k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    Community Care
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • TB
    THE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue -2%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • JW
    Jerry W Dobbins Post 157
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • SP
    SANDY POINT COMMUNITY CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • SD
    Searsport District Middle High School
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
2
Preble Street

To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.

Human Services
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital

We advance health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships, providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health
5
University of New England

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.

Education
6
Heart of Maine United Way

Since 1937, heart of maine united way (homeuw) has been mobilizing the caring power of people and communities throughout hancock, penobscot, piscataquis, somerset, waldo, and washington counties to provide essential services and identify…

Philanthropy
7
Family Planning Association of Maine Inc

To ensure that all maine people have access to high-quality, affordable reproductive health care, comprehensive sexual health education, and the right to control their reproductive lives.

Health
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
Harbor Homes Inc

Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…

Housing & Shelter
10
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers

To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.

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11
The University of Vermont Medical Center

To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.

Health
12
Shaw House

Helping homeless youth reach their potential by providing housing, case management, and support.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Ctr; the most unlike its peers is Community Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $10,000 · OtherTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTERJerry W Dobbins Post 157: $2,000 · OtherJerry W Dobbins Post 157SANDY POINT COMMUNITY CLUB: $2,000 · OtherSANDY POINT COMMUNITY CLUBSearsport District Middle High School: $2,000 · OtherSearsport District Middle High SchoolSandy Point Congregational Church: $2,000 · OtherSandy Point Congregational ChurchIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $250 · OtherCommunity Care: $10,000 · Human ServicesCommunity CarePARTNERS FOR PEACE: $750 · Human ServicesPARTNERS FOR PEACEHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INT…Husson University: $1,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $750 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $750 · EducationMABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR: $750 · HealthMAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $250 · Arts & Culture
Other$21,750Human Services$10,750International$10,000Education$3,000Health$750Arts & Culture$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Care: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHusson University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PEACE: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME CARE & HOSPICE ALLIANCE OF MAINE: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Maine Community Found…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Bangor Savings Bank F…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lois M Gauthier Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lois M Gauthier Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Lois M Gauthier Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Lois M Gauthier Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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