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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $485k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC | $175,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION (DBA BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL) | $150,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $130,000 |
| HEALTHY ACADIA | $125,000 |
| SUNRISE OPPORTUNITIES | $125,000 |
| SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL | $125,000 |
| SUNRISE OPPORTUNITIES | $125,000 |
| AROOSTOOK MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC | $125,000 |
| SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL | $125,000 |
| SUNRISE OPPORTUNITIES | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| RAW ART WORKS INC | $75,000 |
| EXPRESS YOURSELF | $75,000 |
| BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC | $75,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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; $257k 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
SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL6× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +128%- SOSunrise Opportunities5× · 2021–2025 · $960k · revenue +3%
- MSMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN5× · 2021–2025 · $665k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UMUMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent)one grant, 2024 · $225k · revenue 0%
- DCDowneast Community Partners, Inc/Downeast Salmon Federationone grant, 2018 · $85k
- NLNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INCone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -28%
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.
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
The maine society of certified public accountants is the statewide professional organization for cpas in maine. the society serves approximately 575 members with professional meetings, education, and advocacy.
Our mission is to strengthen the leadership, voice, and organizational effectiveness of our state's nonprofit organizations so they can better enrich the quality of community and personal life in Maine.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Historical Society. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 45 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 SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Sunrise Opportunities ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ACADIA ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EXPRESS YOURSELF INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds UMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent) ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTPORT ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ISLAND READERS & WRITERS AN INITIATIVE FOR MAINE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship ↗
- Who funds Maine Philanthropy Center ↗
- Who funds QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOODIC ARTS FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds LUBEC COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Rural Aspirations Project ↗
- Who funds NOPI INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗
- Who funds SPONSOR INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY MILBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL ↗
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 · 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
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 The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust C/O Choate Investment 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Nopi Inc — 14% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Sponsor Inc — 2% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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