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Algar Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $153k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $400,000 |
| BREAKWATER LEARNING | $52,750 |
| GUNSDOWN INC | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT FBO FUND FOR A SAFER FUTURE | $50,000 |
| UTEC | $40,000 |
| ISSUE ONE | $30,000 |
| MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $25,000 |
| MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC | $16,000 |
| CARIDAD CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S ROOM | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE | $10,000 |
| WAYNFLETE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MAINE DONOR ALLIANCE FUND | $10,000 |
| BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| SANDOWAY DISCOVERY CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- TCTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC4× · 2019–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +7%
- MCMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN6× · 2019–2024 · $512k · revenue +73%
- GIGUNSDOWN INC6× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +63%
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +578%- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY INC ATTN TREASURYone grant, 2019 · $15k
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +40%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Saving Sage Animal Rescue Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 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. 57 of the 73 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 THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds GUNSDOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKWATER LEARNING ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Brookline Arts Center ↗
- Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Maine Donor Alliance Fund ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MARALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · Onion Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · The Kirby Family Foundation · Anderson Family Foundation · The Skerryvore Foundation Inc · The Old Bug Light Charitable Foundation C/O Spinnaker Trust · The Harold & Mary Louise Shaw Foundation · The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · The Mimi Foundation
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 Algar Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- College for Social Innovation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Brookline Arts Center — 2% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
- Educate Tomorrow Corp — 0% 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.