Does The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.

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Massachusetts · Private foundation

The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment

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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 41
Grants FY2025: 24
Organizations funded FY2024: 21%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $175,000
Organizations funded a year: 19 to 24; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $89M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	28	$2.5M	18%
FY2024	24	$2.1M	21%
FY2023	22	$1.3M	14%
FY2022	24	$1.2M	13%
FY2021	19	$1.0M	42%
FY2018	20	$751k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.6MCommunity Improvement$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MCrime & Legal$665kPhilanthropy$644kHuman Services$540kYouth Development$365kFood & Nutrition$315kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sunrise County Economic Council	$1,110,500	6	7%
Sunrise Opportunities	$960,000	5	3%
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children	$665,000	5	1%
Massachusetts Association for Mental Health Inc	$516,000	5	9%
Healthy Acadia	$506,000	6	2%
Aroostook Mental Health Services Inc	$480,000	5	0%
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center	$375,000	6	1%
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano	$315,000	5	5%
Community Art Center Inc	$310,000	6	6%
Express Yourself Inc	$270,000	5	8%

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All grantees of The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sunrise County Economic Council	$1,110,500	6	7%
Sunrise Opportunities	$960,000	5	3%
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children	$665,000	5	1%
Massachusetts Association for Mental Health Inc	$516,000	5	9%
Healthy Acadia	$506,000	6	2%
Aroostook Mental Health Services Inc	$480,000	5	0%
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center	$375,000	6	1%
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano	$315,000	5	5%
Community Art Center Inc	$310,000	6	6%
Express Yourself Inc	$270,000	5	8%
Umass Chan Medical School Foundation Inc	$246,500	3	n/a
Downeast Community Partners Inc	$230,000	4	0%
UMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent)	$225,000	1	0%
Children's Hospital Corporation	$220,000	3	0%
Raw Art Works Inc	$210,000	4	2%
Eastport Arts Center	$205,000	6	37%
Island Readers & Writers an Initiative for Maine Children	$195,000	5	9%
Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc	$191,500	6	1%
Maine Seacoast Mission	$175,000	3	1%
Community Music Center of Boston Inc	$155,000	5	1%
Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship	$150,000	2	3%
Barrington Stage Company Inc	$150,000	5	0%
Maine Philanthropy Center	$120,000	6	5%
Quoddy Tides Foundation	$100,000	2	12%
Schoodic Arts for All	$95,000	4	6%
Lubec Community Outreach Center Inc	$90,000	3	22%
New Learning Journey Inc	$75,000	1	3%
Downeast Salmon Federation	$59,500	2	0%
Rural Aspirations Project	$50,000	1	n/a
Sponsor Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries	$25,000	1	2%
Nopi Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Massachusetts Historical Society	$20,000	1	1%
Mi'Kmaq Nation	$20,000	1	n/a
Gateway Milbridge	$15,000	1	7%
Trustees of Eliot School	$15,000	1	n/a
Brazelton Touchpoints Project Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc	$4,500	3	0%
Health Care for All Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Association of Small Foundations	$750	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($310k), not named here.

The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME44.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Davis Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment

How much does The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment give?: The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment reported 41 grants totaling $2,557,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Community Improvement (10%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Sunrise County Economic Council ($1.1M), Sunrise Opportunities ($960k), Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ($665k).
Does The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment based?: The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment is based in MA.