· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAIL MAINE | $86,000 |
| PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | $35,000 |
| BESSEMER GIVING FUND | $10,000 |
| MAINE COMMUNITY SWIMMING FOUNDATION OF PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHENS | $6,500 |
| RIPPLEFFECT INC | $6,000 |
| I'M YOUR NEIGHBOR BOOKS | $5,000 |
| HAND IN HAND MANO EN MANO | $4,000 |
| ALLAGASH WILDERNESS WATERWAY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| PORTLAND COMMUNITY SQUASH | $4,000 |
| ON BELAY | $3,500 |
| SLOW FOOD TAHOE | $3,500 |
| OUT MAINE | $2,500 |
| MAINE ACCESS POINTS | $2,500 |
| SING FOR HOPE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
184 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 136 since wound down; 9 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPortland Community Squash8× · 2017–2025 · $723k · revenue +107%
- SMSAIL MAINE8× · 2017–2025 · $661k · revenue +66%
- TBTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK4× · 2017–2021 · $446k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $275k · revenue +40%
- BRBEINECKE RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $250k
- MCMAYO CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $250k
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.
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.
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 illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
How this is measured
212 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. 212 of the 373 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds Portland Community Squash ↗
- Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds HALCYON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds RIPPLEFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds Portland Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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