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The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation

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.

$251k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
58
Grants FY2025
111
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$86,000
Organizations funded a year
75 to 130
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$56M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation 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; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving57$241k16%
FY2024111$131k20%
FY2023108$155k16%
FY2022130$529k92%
FY202187$2.7M39%
FY202075$1.6M27%
FY201986$1.4M65%
FY201788$1.8Mn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$11MArts & Culture$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.5MHealth$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.0MEducation$906kEnvironment$652kYouth Development$503kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Portland Community Squash$723,000814%
Sail Maine$661,000819%
The Boys' Club of New York$445,50042%
Christ Episcopal Church$314,1004n/a
Portland Museum of Art$302,50051%
New York Botanical Garden$275,00010%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$231,25061%
Yeshiva University$150,00010%
The Frick Collection$140,00040%
Halcyon Foundation$126,70048%
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All grantees of The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Portland Community Squash$723,000814%
Sail Maine$661,000819%
The Boys' Club of New York$445,50042%
Christ Episcopal Church$314,1004n/a
Portland Museum of Art$302,50051%
New York Botanical Garden$275,00010%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$231,25061%
Yeshiva University$150,00010%
The Frick Collection$140,00040%
Halcyon Foundation$126,70048%
564 Park Avenue Preservation Foundation$100,000112%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc$100,00030%
University of Southern Maine Foundation$78,00050%
Foxcroft School$77,50040%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$68,00030%
Rippleffect Inc$62,00053%
The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater$55,00030%
Greenwich Historical Society Inc$46,00042%
SPACE Gallery$45,00023%
Portland Parks Conservancy$42,000410%
Mount Desert Island Hospital$40,50040%
The Garden Conservancy Inc$40,00040%
Friends of Acadia$37,50040%
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union$37,50030%
American Museum of Natural History$27,50040%
Mount Desert Nursing Assoc$26,00041%
Rye Country Day School$25,00030%
Institute of Current World Affairs Inc$25,00012%
Wnet$25,00030%
Frenchman Bay Conservancy$20,50051%
Manhattanville University$20,00040%
St Marys & St Judes$20,0002n/a
College of the Atlantic$15,00030%
Beatrix Farrand Society$12,50017%
Family Centers Inc$12,00010%
American Friends of Blerancourt Inc$12,00033%
Trustees of Phillips Academy$11,50040%
Jesup Memorial Library$11,00030%
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc$10,65020%
Maine Community Swimming$10,0001n/a
Calvary Episcopal Church$10,0001n/a
Central Park Conservancy Inc$10,00020%
Hope for Depression Research Foundation$10,00020%
Thomas Cole Historic House$10,00020%
The Deerwood Foundation Inc$10,00023%
The Asia Society$10,00040%
The King's College$10,00020%
The Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation$9,50042%
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano$9,50040%
I'm Your Neighbor Books$9,00040%
Maine Seacoast Mission$9,00050%
Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc$8,00031%
Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc$7,50030%
Community Kitchens Inc$7,50020%
Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute$7,00060%
Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts Inc$7,00021%
Hope Acts$6,00030%
Through These Doors$6,00040%
Falmouth Conservation Trust Dba Falmouth Land Trust$5,75052%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$5,50010%
LifeFlight Foundation$5,50040%
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project$5,50040%
On Belay Inc$5,50032%
The Telling Room$5,50040%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$5,50020%
Northeast Harbor Library$5,00040%
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve$5,00010%
Helen Keller International$5,00010%
New York Historical Society$5,00010%
Milestone Recovery$5,00040%
United States Sailing Association Inc$5,00010%
Biddeford Food Pantry$5,00041%
Friends of the Presumpscot River$5,00043%
New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation Inc$5,00013%
American Prairie Foundation$4,50010%
Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center$4,00031%
Round Hill Association Inc$4,0002n/a
The Library of American Landscape History Inc$4,00030%
Valo$4,00040%
Museum of Modern Art$3,90030%
Legal Services for Maine Elders Inc$3,50040%
Maine Access Points$3,50020%
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland$3,50030%
Kids First Center$3,50031%
Cultivating Community$3,50030%
Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc$3,00040%
Friends of Casco Bay$3,00040%
Apex Youth Connection$3,00040%
Maine Academy of Modern Music$3,00040%
Ketcha Outdoors$3,00040%
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine$3,00040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$3,00030%
The Center for Grieving Children$3,00020%
Maine Island Trail Association$2,75040%
Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust Inc$2,50030%
Sail to Prevail$2,50030%
Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc$2,50010%
Queerly Me$2,50012%
OUT Maine$2,50010%
University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement$2,50010%
Maine Justice Foundation$2,50010%
Keeping Identities Safe Inc$2,50011%
Maine Needs Inc$2,50030%
City Harvest Inc$2,50010%
Portland Wheelers$2,50031%
Fenix Theatre Company$2,5002n/a
Sing for Hope Inc$2,50010%
Penobscot Marine Museum$2,25030%
The Irish Georgian Society Inc$2,20030%
Casting for Recovery$2,00030%
Urban Alchemy$2,00020%
Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem$2,00010%
Heart of Biddeford$2,00030%
Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine$2,00030%
Marine Mammals of Maine$2,00020%
Trustees of Boston University$2,00030%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$2,00010%
French Heritage Society Inc$1,85020%
Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc$1,75030%
Friends of Fort Gorges$1,75031%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,75040%
240 Strings$1,50031%
Engine Inc$1,50021%
Museum of Art Ogunquit D/B/A Ogunquit Museum of Art$1,50030%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine$1,50030%
Furniture Friends$1,50030%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc$1,50030%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$1,50020%
Maine Historical Society$1,50020%
AUTISM SOCIETY OF MAINE d/b/a ASM$1,50030%
Portland Trails$1,50030%
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association$1,50030%
Northeastern University$1,50030%
Intercultural Community Center$1,50030%
Portland Public Library$1,50030%
Spirits Alive$1,5004n/a
Family Ice Center$1,50030%
Proprietors Portsmouth Athenaeum$1,50030%
Center for Contemporary Art$1,25020%
Minnewawa Sportsmen's Club Inc$1,25031%
Youth Journalism International Inc$1,25031%
Sitka Maritime Heritage Society$1,00032%
Food for All Services$1,0001n/a
Round Hill Volunteer Fire Company Inc$1,00010%
The Neue Galerie New York$1,00010%
The Opportunity Alliance$1,00010%
Trekkers Inc$1,00020%
Call-A-Ride of Greenwich Inc$1,00011%
Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society Inc$1,00011%
Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation$1,0001n/a
Acadia Family Center$1,0001n/a
Alaska Arts Southeast Inc$1,00030%
Artsconnection Inc$1,00010%
Sitka Conservation Society$1,00030%
Preservation Alumni Inc$1,0001n/a
Capitol Squash Inc$1,00020%
The Society of Colonial Wars$1,00010%
Kurt Peter Foundation$1,00011%
Maine Equal Justice Partners$1,00010%
La Cocina$1,00010%
Friends of Nathaniel Witherell Inc$1,00010%
Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation$1,00020%
Maine Farmland Trust$1,00020%
Sweet Briar Institute$1,00010%
Count Me In$1,00021%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$1,00010%
Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music$8001n/a
Laudholm Trust$75020%
Riding to the Top$75020%
Old Berwick Historical Society$75021%
The Owls Head Transportation Museum$75020%
Wrangell Mariners Memorial$75023%
Kenai Watershed Forum$75020%
Side x Side Inc$75020%
The Jackson Laboratory$50010%
Woodfords Family Services$50010%
Hardy Girls Healthy Women Inc$50010%
Smithsonian Institution$50010%
Strawbery Banke Museum$50010%
826 Valencia$50010%
Chebeague Island Library$50010%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc$50010%
Youth Full Maine$50010%
Usher 1F Collaborative Inc$50010%
Northeast Harbor Sailing School$50010%
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust$50010%
Herring Gut Coastal Science Center$50010%
My Place Teen Center Inc$50010%
Goodwill Industries of Northern NE$50010%
Young Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine$50010%
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship$50010%
Steamboat Art Museum$50010%
Society of Architectural Historians$50010%
Gulf of Maine Research Institute$50010%
Rockendinc$50010%
The Surfrider Foundation$50010%
Maine Cancer Foundation$50010%
Kents Hill School$50010%
National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States$50010%
Disability Rights Maine$50010%
St John's Episcopal Church$5001n/a
Maine Maritime Museum$50010%
Silver Shield Association Inc$50010%
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Student Activities Association Inc$50010%
Konbit Sante Cap Haitien Health$50010%
Human Rights First$50010%
Whitefield Library$50010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$50010%
Maine College of Art and Design$50010%
The Root Cellar$50010%
American Society of Landscape Architects$25010%
The Greenwich Library$25010%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 152 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPortland Community Squash: $723,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetSail Maine: $661,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetThe Boys' Club of New York: $445,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $302,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $275,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $231,250 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetYeshiva University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHalcyon Foundation: $126,700 over 4y, 7.8% of budget564 Park Avenue Preservation Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGreenwich Country Day School Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $78,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFoxcroft School: $77,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $68,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRippleffect Inc: $62,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetThe Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwich Historical Society Inc: $46,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSPACE Gallery: $45,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPortland Parks Conservancy: $42,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetMount Desert Island Hospital: $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Garden Conservancy Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $37,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMount Desert Nursing Assoc: $26,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetRye Country Day School: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute of Current World Affairs Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWnet: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $20,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetManhattanville University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of the Atlantic: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBeatrix Farrand Society: $12,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetFamily Centers Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Blerancourt Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTrustees of Phillips Academy: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJesup Memorial Library: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNew York Landmarks Conservancy Inc: $10,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope for Depression Research Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThomas Cole Historic House: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Deerwood Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetThe Asia Society: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe King's College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation: $9,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetI'm Your Neighbor Books: $9,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budget

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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 200.

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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 IncME109.8× affinity87 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · United Way Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust

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 Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation

How much does The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation give?
The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $251,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 75 and 130 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (55%), Arts & Culture (10%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Portland Community Squash ($723k), Sail Maine ($661k), The Boys' Club of New York ($446k).
Does The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation 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 Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Sam L Cohen Foundation, Onion Foundation.
Where is The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation based?
The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 373 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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