Skip to content
Wing-Benjamin Trust Fund Uw at a glance

· Private foundation

Wing-Benjamin Trust Fund Uw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$80kHealth$53kEducation$42kYouth Development$33kArts & Culture$17kHuman Services$16kEnvironment$8kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MAINE$15,000
GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$10,000
MCH INC$6,500
HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$5,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN NE$5,000
PINE TREE SOCIETY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $2k → 12%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $5k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $5k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $4k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $4k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $3k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $3k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$246k · 11 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$246k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+57%

Still filing today

64%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • HG
    HARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +27%
  • HO
    Hospice of Southern Maine
    6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +34%
  • PT
    PINE TREE SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Susan L Curtis Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue ×11
  • KV
    KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +57%
  • TS
    THE SUMMER CAMP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +53%
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.

1
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
2
Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation

The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.

Philanthropy
3
Kids Corner Inc

To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.

Human Services
4
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
5
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
6
Wiscasset Public Library

Wiscasset public librarys goal is to provide access to innovateive library services, delivered in an efficient and effective manner that will assist everyone to contiune to grow and learn throughout their lives. provide

Education
7
The Well Ne

The Well's mission is to deliver real solutions in behavioral health through compassion, innovation, and collaboration. By building an inclusive community, we offer comprehensive treatment and resources to empower individuals of diverse…

Health
8
The Maine Special Educationmental Health Collaborative

The organization's mission is to serve its students, their families and their sending school districts through well coordinated educational, clinical and consultation services.

Education
9
Waypoint Maine Inc

Waypoint Maine provides a comprehensive array of programs that each year provides essential services and support to over 1,000 children and adults with special needs.

Human Services
10
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
11
Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Support

The Children's Center, as a nonprofit organization, provides quality, family-focused services for children; specializes in meeting the developmental needs of children with special needs by offering programs which encourage individual…

Health
12
Adoptive & Foster Families of Maine

Adoptive and foster families of maine inc. provides support services for adoptive and foster parents, and kinship providers. affm provides the training, guidance, knowledge, and resources needed to handle complex issues as families open…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodfords Family Services; the most unlike its peers is Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust Corp. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MAINE: $80,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF MAINEMCH INC: $26,500 · OtherMCH INCIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY MANAGER: $10,000 · OtherTURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY MANAGERGOOD WILL NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND: $7,000 · OtherGoodwill Industries of Northern NE: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $5,500 · OtherPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $22,000 · EducationPINE TREE SOCIET…GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · EducationGARDINER LIBRARY…WOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $7,500 · EducationWOODFORDS FAMILY…HARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARDY GIRLS …Hospice of Southern Maine: $23,000 · Human ServicesHospice of…THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $1,988 · Human ServicesTHE NORTHE…WILHELM REICH INFANT TRUST CORP: $17,225 · Arts & CultureMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $7,500 · Science & TechThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $5,200 · Recreation & Sports
Other$149,000Education$39,500Youth Development$30,000Human Services$24,988Arts & Culture$17,225Science & Tech$7,500Recreation & Sports$5,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILHELM REICH INFANT TRUST CORP: $17,225 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY MANAGER: $10,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $5,200 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Northern NE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $1,988 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Found…Simmons Foundation - …Davis Family Foundati…Sam L Cohen FoundationElmina B Sewall Found…Elsie & William Viles…Maine Health Access F…Fisher Charitable Fou…Bangor Savings Bank F…Waterville Area Women…The Mimi FoundationMachias Savings Bank …
Maine Community Foundation IncME24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Davis Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Elsie & William Viles Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Waterville Area Women's Club · The Mimi Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development 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 Wing-Benjamin Trust Fund Uw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wing-Benjamin Trust Fund Uw. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 17 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Wing-Benjamin Trust Fund Uw’s filings →

    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