· Private foundation
Park Row Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOYOLA SCHOOL | $21,505 |
| CHEVRUS HIGH SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| TEDFORD HOUSING | $5,150 |
| ST LUKES CATHEDRAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOWDOIN INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL | $4,135 |
| COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS | $3,675 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK | $1,575 |
| WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES | $1,000 |
| MICHAEL J ARMSTRONG FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| WAYNFLETE SCHOOL | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WSWAYNFLETE SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $46k · revenue +39%
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +27%
- BIBowdoin International Music Festival4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +238%
Funded once
- SLST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $13k
Cornell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +27%- BSBABY SAVINGS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
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.
To provide a program for young men in a unique, one-year postgraduate environment to prepare for the rigors of college and beyond.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University and the most unlike its peers is Michael J Armstrong Mem Fdn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WAYNFLETE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin International Music Festival ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BA BRUNSWICK ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds TEDFORD HOUSING ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds Maine Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds Maine Huts & Trails ↗
- Who funds THE STONY BROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST HUMANE ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL J ARMSTRONG MEM FDN ↗
- Who funds HARPSWELL COASTAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SIX RIVERS YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Narragansett Number One Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · Libra Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Park Row Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.