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The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust: 41 grants to organizations, $2.6 million (tax year ended December 2025)
The Charles F and Beatrice D Adams Charitable Trust, a private foundation in Boston, MA, paid 41 grants to organizations totaling $2,557,500 in its tax year ended December 2025, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on April 20, 2026. The largest was $175,000 to Umass Memorial Health Care Inc in Worcester, MA for expand project safe and sound to birth mothers of children in foster care.
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- EIN
- 046556188
- Based in
- Boston, MA
- Assets
- $88,738,914
- Grants paid
- $2,557,500
- Tax year ended
- December 2025
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2025
From the Form 990-PF filed April 20, 2026, IRS object ID 202641109349100019. It reported $2,557,500 in grants paid; 41 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umass Memorial Health Care Inc | Worcester, MA | Expand project safe and sound to birth mothers of children in foster care | $175,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Children's Hospital Corporation (dba Boston Children's Hospital) | Boston, MA | One-year grant for in-depth planning for new center for innovative and equitable school behavioral health | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Association for Mental Health | Boston, MA | Children's behavioral health policy tracking initiative | $130,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Aroostook Mental Health Services Inc | Presque Isle, ME | Three-year grant for continued work with substance use disorder collaborative | Mental health and crisis intervention | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Healthy Acadia | Ellsworth, ME | Three-year grant for work with substance use disorder collaborative | Health care | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sunrise County Economic Council | Machias, ME | Three-year grant for continued work with substance use disorder collaborative | Community improvement and capacity building | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sunrise County Economic Council | Machias, ME | Two-year grant to provide operating funds to bridge transition to increased federal overhead rates for government contracts | Community improvement and capacity building | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sunrise Opportunities | Machias, ME | Three-year grant for community caring collaborative to continue its work with substance use disorder collaborative | Mental health and crisis intervention | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sunrise Opportunities | Machias, ME | Three-year grant to community caring collaborative for operating support and development of a childrens behavioral health pilot with the substance use disorder collaborative. | Mental health and crisis intervention | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Community Art Center Inc | Cambridge, MA | Three-year pledge for operating support and support of case management and behavioral health support services | Human services | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Children | Lexington, MA | Three-year general operating support for the children's mental health campaign | Crime and legal-related | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sunrise Opportunities | Machias, ME | Hope & dream emergency fund | Mental health and crisis intervention | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc | Brookline, MA | 3-year grant to bridge for resilient youth in transition for family engagement support and evaluation | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Express Yourself | Beverly, MA | Three-year operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Raw Art Works Inc | Lynn, MA | Three-year grant to provide flexible support to respond to financial and programmatic challenges and to preserve arts therapy resources. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wabanaki Commission On Land and Stewardship | Orono, ME | Wabanaki solidarity deposit | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Island Readers and Writers | Mount Desert, ME | Three-year for leadership transition, staff professional development and increased investment in washington county | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Lubec Community Outreach Center Inc | Lubec, ME | Three-year grant to support programs and services for the lubec community | Community improvement and capacity building | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Quoddy Tides Foundation | Eastport, ME | Capital grant to match neh grant for masonic hall renovations | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Rural Aspirations Project | Swanville, ME | Washington county youth leadership challenge | Education | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sunrise County Economic Council | Machias, ME | Three-year grant to support salary of executive director of east grand community economic council | Community improvement and capacity building | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Downeast Salmon Federation | Columbia Falls, ME | Phase 2 of stern consultings organizational development work with dsfs board and staff | Animal-related | $46,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Massachusetts Association for Mental Health | Boston, MA | Sustainability planning and implementation for community behavioral health center partnerships with schools. | $42,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Barrington Stage Company Inc | Pittsfield, MA | Program support and strategic planning | Education | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Eastport Arts Center | Eastport, ME | Two-year grant for general support | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Association for Mental Health | Boston, MA | Strategic plan facilitation and staff time costs | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Community Music Center of Boston | Boston, MA | Three-year support of music therapy program and workforce development | Arts, culture and humanities | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Hand in Hand Mano En Mano | Milbridge, ME | Administration of welcome home downeast project | Education | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sunrise County Economic Council | Machias, ME | Three-year grant for downest innovation network | Community improvement and capacity building | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Hand in Hand Mano En Mano | Milbridge, ME | Operating and capacity support | Education | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Maine Philanthropy Center | Portland, ME | Two-year support for $15k annual membership plus $10k for funder network manager each year | Education | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Children | Lexington, MA | Children's mental health campaign strategic planning support | Crime and legal-related | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Nopi Inc | Walpole, MA | Downeast rainbow alliance | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc | Boston, MA | Summer fund mental health grant program | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc | Boston, MA | Summer fund mental health grant program | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Maine Community Foundation | Ellsworth, ME | Downeast nonprofit initiative to support facilitation costs for downeast nonprofit network | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc | Boston, MA | Annual support including flexible support of networks | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $12,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Downeast Salmon Federation | Columbia Falls, ME | Consulting costs for organizational assessment and planning for leadership transition | Animal-related | $8,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brazelton Touchpoints Project Inc | Boston, MA | National substance use disorder summit 2026: the first 1,000 days | Social science | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc | Washington, DC | Annual membership | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Health Care for All Inc | Boston, MA | 40th anniversary celebration event | $1,500 | apps.irs.gov |
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed April 9, 2025, IRS object ID 202530999349100328. It reported $2,091,000 in grants paid; 32 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umass Memorial Health Care Inc (parent) | Worcester, MA | Expand project safe and sound to birth mothers of children in foster care | $175,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Children | Lexington, MA | Children's mental health campaign-school-based project | Crime and legal-related | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Aroostook Mental Health Services Inc | Caribou, ME | Substance use disorder collaborative | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Healthy Acadia | Bar Harbor, ME | Substance use disorder collaborative | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Sunrise County Economic Council | Machias, ME | Substance use disorder collaborative | Community improvement and capacity building | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sunrise County Economic Council | Machias, ME | To provide operating funds to bridge transition to increased federal overhead rates for government contracts | Community improvement and capacity building | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sunrise Opportunities | Machias, ME | Community caring collaborative for operating support and development of children's behavioral health pilot projectue its work with substance use disorder collaborative | Mental health and crisis intervention | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sunrise Opportunities | Machias, ME | Community caring collaborative to continue its work with substance use disorder collaborative | Mental health and crisis intervention | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc | Brookline, MA | Family engagement component of bryt | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Raw Art Works Inc | Lynn, MA | In-depth strategic planning to build upon pilot project with lynn community health center to provide behavioral health assistance to participants & staff | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wabanaki Commission On Land & Stewardship | Dedham, ME | Wabanaki solidarity deposit | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Association for Mental Health | Boston, MA | Community behavioral health centers & schools project | $54,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Children's Hospital Corporation Dba Boston Children's Hospital | Boston, MA | Planning grant for new center for innovative and equitable school behavioral health | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Community Art Center Inc | Cambridge, MA | Operating support | Human services | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Express Yourself Inc | Beverly, MA | Operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Island Readers and Writers An Initiative for Maine Children | Mt Desert, ME | Leadership transition, staff professional development & increased investment in washington county | Education | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Children | Lexington, MA | Encompass program-trauma coach training | Crime and legal-related | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc | Boston, MA | Summer fund mental health grant program | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Quoddy Tides Foundation Dba Tides Institute | Eastport, ME | Matching grant for masonic hall renovations | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Sunrise County Economic Council | Machias, ME | Support salary of executive director of east grand community economic council | Community improvement and capacity building | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Umass Memorial Health Care Inc (parent) | Worcester, MA | Project safe & sound | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Eastport Arts Center | Eastport, ME | General support | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hand in Hand Mano En Mano | Milbridge, ME | Administration of welcome home downeast project | Education | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Barrington Stage Company Inc | Pittsfield, MA | Program support and strategic planning | Education | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Community Music Center of Boston | Boston, MA | Music therapy program and workforce development | Arts, culture and humanities | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Express Yourself Inc | Beverly, MA | Operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Hand in Hand Mano En Mano | Milbridge, ME | Operating & capacity support | Education | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Maine Philanthropy Center | Portland, ME | Annual membership ($15k) & funder network manager ($10k) | Education | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sponsor Inc Dba Missionearth | Framingham, MA | To support downeast rainbow alliance | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mi'kmaq Nation | Presque Isle, ME | Replacement of boiler in administrative building | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc | Boston, MA | Annual support including flexible support of networks | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $12,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Schoodic Arts for All | Winter Harbor, ME | Consulting assistance with executive search | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Mental health and crisis intervention | $725,000 |
| Community improvement and capacity building | $680,000 |
| Education | $340,000 |
| Crime and legal-related | $325,000 |
| Arts, culture and humanities | $305,000 |
| Human services | $150,000 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $146,500 |
| Health care | $125,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Maine | $2,534,500 |
| Massachusetts | $2,111,500 |
| District of Columbia | $2,500 |
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Updated April 20, 2026. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.