· Public charity
Merrymeeting Bay Trust
to assist in and promote the understanding, awareness, and study of the natural environment surrounding Merrymeeting Bay, and preservation of other undeveloped areas in the vicinity of or on Merrymeeting Bay.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | $450,000 |
| Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust | $65,000 |
| Maine Maritime Museum | $50,000 |
| Town of Brunswick Maine | $20,000 |
| Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KEKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST3× · 2020–2022 · $855k · revenue +6% · 27% of their budget
- MMMaine Maritime Museum3× · 2020–2022 · $190k · revenue +26%
- MHMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY2× · 2020–2021 · $75k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF MERRYMEETING BAYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +242%
- SOState of Maineone grant, 2021 · $39k
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.
7 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. 7 of the 9 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 · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Davis Conservation Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust · Libra Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · 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 Merrymeeting Bay Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merrymeeting Bay Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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