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.

The Medway Charitable Trust

The Medway Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k37 grants · $112k
$10k–50k10 grants · $153k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$10,000
OAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATION	$10,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL	$10,000
Southern Environmental Law Center	$10,000
THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT	$5,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY	$5,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATIO	$5,000
BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER	$5,000
SEVEN LOAVES SERVICES INC	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 70 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalOther

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.

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

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.

04Its field

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.

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

Rainforest Trust

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

International

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alaska Whale Foundation

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

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

80/82

Grantees still filing

55/82

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,002,220Environment$233,634Health$216,750Philanthropy$198,000Animals$158,823Education$153,025Human Services$106,345

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.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Medway Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Medway Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home