· Private foundation
Warren Memorial Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTBROOK HIGH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| GRIME STUDIO | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,338 |
| MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | $25,000 |
| HEWNOAKS ARTIST COLONY | $15,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND FIDDLE ENSEMBLE | $13,975 |
| CITY OF WESTBROOK | $8,302 |
| THE TELLING ROOM | $8,000 |
| PORTLAND BALLET | $2,495 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +74% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWESTBROOK HIGH SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $310k
- WAWESTBROOK ARTS & CULTURE3× · 2017–2019 · $212k · 96% of their budget
- COCITY OF WESTBROOK4× · 2020–2024 · $204k
Funded once
SPACE Galleryone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -4%- WMWESTBROOK MUSIC BOOSTERSone grant, 2017 · $15k
- DSDAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +25%
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.
Advancement of the Visual Arts
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…
To support contemporary arts through exhibitions, education and cultural programming and serve as an anchor for artistic activity and community. Granary Arts supports and exhibits regional and international artists, provides educational…
The Maine Center for Creativitys mission is to promote the growth of the arts and creative industries in Maine. This is achieved by creating projects and programs that promote the arts and stimulate the economy by contributing to the…
The mission of Meetinghouse Arts is to cultivate Greater Freeport as a vibrant center for arts and culture by fostering creative collaboration, expanding access to arts and cultural assets, and amplifying the arts and culture as powerful…
Promoting local artists producing arts and crafts and providing art programming on the South Shore of Massachusetts.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 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
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 WESTBROOK ARTS & CULTURE ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Grime Studios ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds HEWNOAKS ARTIST COLONY ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
- Who funds DAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENGINE INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Charitable Mechanic Association ↗
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 · Davis Family Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Spectemur Agendo Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Warren Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warren Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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