· Private foundation
Margaret W Soule Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEMPSEY CENTER | $16,000 |
| WAYFINDER SCHOOLS | $16,000 |
| PREBLE STREET | $16,000 |
| ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER | $16,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $10,500 |
| MAINE PRESERVATION | $9,600 |
| WAYNFLETE SCHOOL | $9,600 |
| HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $9,600 |
| United Recovery Fund | $9,600 |
| RIDING TO THE TOP | $9,600 |
| SMITH COLLEGE - THE SMITH FUND | $6,500 |
| OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP | $6,500 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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 +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 13 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
- WSWAYFINDER SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +46%
- PSPREBLE STREET9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +182%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- CCCancer Community Centerone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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…
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
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…
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.
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…
Waypoint Maine provides a comprehensive array of programs that each year provides essential services and support to over 1,000 children and adults with special needs.
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.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
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.
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.
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds MAINE PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds WAYNFLETE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIDING TO THE TOP ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds United Recovery Fund ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Cancer Community Center ↗
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 · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Davis Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · Tyler Foundation · United Way Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Margaret W Soule Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret W Soule Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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