· Private foundation
Percy W Howard &Amp Bernice M Howard
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $4,250 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN MASS COR | $2,150 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $2,150 |
| PRINCE OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,150 |
| BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC | $2,150 |
| MAINE GENERAL HEALTH | $2,150 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $500 |
| THEO C | $250 |
| MIRIAM A | $250 |
| BEN S | $250 |
| MILES F | $250 |
| AZARIAH C | $250 |
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KVKENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +95%
- BOBREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC5× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +23%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTONone grant, 2024 · $2k
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +25%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +54%
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.
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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 31 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 KENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds Husson University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
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 · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Percy W Howard &Amp Bernice M Howard funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Percy W Howard &Amp Bernice M Howard. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
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