· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ST LUKES CATHEDRAL | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES | $1,000 |
| CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| WAYNFLETE SCHOOL | $500 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| MICHAEL J ARMSTRONG FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +39% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +64%
Funded once
- SLST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $13k
Cornell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +27%- BSBABY SAVINGS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
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…
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…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 51 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 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 MICHAEL J ARMSTRONG MEM FDN ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST HUMANE ↗
- Who funds THE PELHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARPSWELL COASTAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Park Row Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Park Row Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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