Maryland · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Medway Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $240k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $224k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $205k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $249k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $194k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $210k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $184k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $200k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acadia Fire Fc Inc | $178,500 | 8 | 27% |
| Mount Desert Nursing Assoc | $93,750 | 8 | 3% |
| The Piedmont Environmental Council | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Sanford Stud Farm | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Oak Spring Garden Foundation | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Blue Ridge School Inc | $64,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Blue Ridge Wildlife Center | $60,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Foxcroft School | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Seeing Eye Inc | $55,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Himalaya Currents Inc | $51,000 | 3 | 28% |
Show all 84 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($360k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Medway Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
About The Medway Charitable Trust
- How much does The Medway Charitable Trust give?
- The Medway Charitable Trust reported 47 grants totaling $265,102 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Medway Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (17%), Health (16%), Animals (14%).
- Who are The Medway Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Acadia Fire Fc Inc ($179k), Mount Desert Nursing Assoc ($94k), The Piedmont Environmental Council ($75k).
- Does The Medway Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Medway Charitable Trust 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 Medway Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Ethel D Colket Foundation, Colket Family Foundation.
- Where is The Medway Charitable Trust based?
- The Medway Charitable Trust is based in MD.
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