· Private foundation
Abbagadassett Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maine College of Art Design | $100,000 |
| Blind Industries Services of Maryla | $100,000 |
| Spurwink Services | $99,991 |
| University of Southern Maine Founda | $99,743 |
| Maine Public Broadcasting Network | $99,348 |
| Maine Maritime Museum | $90,820 |
| Healthcare for the Homeless | $86,000 |
| Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens | $80,250 |
| Environmental and Energy Study Inst | $80,000 |
| Restorative Justice Project | $78,582 |
| Maine Historical Society | $57,145 |
| Laudholm Trust | $54,500 |
| Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | $44,554 |
| Pejepscot History Center | $36,553 |
| Momentum Conservation | $24,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $676k · revenue +65%- CMCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $343k · revenue +321%
- SSSpurwink Services Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- MCMAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BIPOC FUNDone grant, 2020 · $85k
- MMaineHealthgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +64%
- SMSouthern Maine Agency on Aginggraduatedone grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue +26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
Maine Rivers is a statewide advocacy organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine's river systems. We support and direct efforts to conserve and improve the health of Maine's rivers and…
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.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
Maine preservation promotes and preserves historic places, buildings, downtowns and neighborhoods, stenghtening the cultural and economic vitality of maine communities.
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
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…
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Maritime Museum and the most unlike its peers is Bowdoinham Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds Spurwink Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LAUDHOLM TRUST ↗
- Who funds PEJEPSCOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Libra Foundation · Onion Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Abbagadassett Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Blind Industries & Services of Maryland — 100% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.