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The Medway Charitable Trust

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.

$265k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$357kHealth$322kAnimals$280kEducation$221kRecreation & Sports$185kPhilanthropy$138kFood & Nutrition$119kArts & Culture$102kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $153k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOCIATION$20,000
WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
FOXCROFT SCHOOL$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$20,000
BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL$17,000
HIMALAYA CURRENTS INC$16,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$10,000
OAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATION$10,000
Southern Environmental Law Center$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
BLUE RIDGE PRISM$5,000
BETTERALIFE INC$5,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATIO$5,000
MOC BEAGLES INC$5,000
ISLAND HOUSING TRUST$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE: $3k → 16%PERC INC: $10k → 9%BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE: $3k → 16%BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE: $963 → 16%SEVEN LOAVES SERVICES INC: $5k → 4%SEVEN LOAVES SERVICES INC: $1k → 4%PIEDMONT CHILD CARE CTR: $5k → 4%PIEDMONT CHILD CARE CTR: $5k → 4%PIEDMONT CHILD CARE CTR: $5k → 4%PIEDMONT CHILD CARE CTR: $5k → 4%PIEDMONT CHILD CARE CTR: $5k → 4%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 70 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
51

Total granted

$1.6M
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+13%

Still filing today

66%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalOther

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

  • MD
    MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +200%
  • TP
    THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +161%
  • OS
    OAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +254%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • WC
    WYOMING COMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $22k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
4
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
5
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
6
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
7
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
8
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…

Animals
9
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment
12
Alaska Whale Foundation

Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Himalaya Currents Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Local Food System Organizat…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Local History MuseumsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/88
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,477

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.

04the grantee network

82 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 135 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/82
Grantees still filing
55/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACADIA FIRE FC INC — $178,500 · OtherACADIA FIRE FC INCFRIENDS OF SANFORD STUD FARM — $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF SANFORD STUD FARMGRANITE ART GARDEN — $37,500 · OtherOAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATION — $70,000 · OtherOAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATIONMOC BEAGLES INC — $45,000 · Other+85 more — $596,220 · Other+85 moreTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $75,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT…GOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · EnvironmentGOOSE CREEK …SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST — $35,000 · EnvironmentSHENANDOAH N…Friends of Acadia — $31,535 · EnvironmentFriends of A…NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS — $10,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC — $10,000 · Environment+7 more — $32,099 · Environment+7 moreMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC — $93,750 · HealthMOUNT DESER…HIMALAYA CURRENTS INC — $51,000 · HealthHIMALAYA CU…ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC — $45,000 · HealthST MARYS HE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $17,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…+3 more — $9,500 · HealthWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $113,000 · PhilanthropyWYOMING CO…BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER — $60,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE RIDGE…CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & Y…+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropySEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY — $50,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $45,000 · AnimalsRED PANDA NETWORK — $27,500 · AnimalsACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $21,823 · AnimalsLoudoun Wildlife Conservancy — $9,000 · Animals+3 more — $5,500 · AnimalsTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC — $64,500 · EducationFoxcroft School — $55,000 · EducationHOLDERNESS SCHOOL — $30,000 · Education+3 more — $3,525 · EducationTHE SEEING EYE INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesPIEDMONT CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesP E R C INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSeven Loaves Services Inc — $6,272 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC — $5,963 · Human Services+2 more — $4,110 · Human Services
Other$1,002,220Environment$233,634Health$216,750Philanthropy$198,000Animals$158,823Education$153,025Human Services$106,345

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetACADIA FIRE FC INC — $178,500 over 8y, 27% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $113,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC — $93,750 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $75,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetOAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC — $64,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER — $60,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetFoxcroft School — $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHIMALAYA CURRENTS INC — $51,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY — $50,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $45,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMOC BEAGLES INC — $45,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC — $45,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST — $35,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $31,535 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRED PANDA NETWORK — $27,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $21,823 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION — $19,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE NEPAL INC — $16,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY — $12,750 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoudoun Wildlife Conservancy — $9,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST — $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetA PLACE TO BE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETTERALIFE INC — $6,710 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSeven Loaves Services Inc — $6,272 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY — $6,263 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC — $5,963 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOMESVILLE LANDING CORPORATION — $5,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatawba Lands Conservancy — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 ACADIA FIRE FC INC
  • Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC
  • Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
  • Who funds OAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER
  • Who funds Foxcroft School
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC
  • Who funds HIMALAYA CURRENTS INC
  • Who funds SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY
  • Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC
  • Who funds MOC BEAGLES INC
  • Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC
  • Who funds GOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST
  • Who funds Friends of Acadia
  • Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL
  • Who funds RED PANDA NETWORK
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds PIEDMONT CHILD CARE CENTER INC
  • Who funds ACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ELEVATE NEPAL INC
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME34.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Alexander Brady Foundation · Janet Stone Jones 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 Medway 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • First Fruits Farm Inc26% of income from government
  • Harford Family House Inc14% of income from government
  • Three Sisters Garden Project Inc2% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc1% of income from government
  • Seaside Seabird Sanctuary0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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