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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.

$858k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.3MEnvironment$386kArts & Culture$375kCivil Rights$330kPublic Benefit$250kYouth Development$206kHealth$143kInternational$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $211k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $153k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UPLIFT AFGANISTAND FUND: $10k → 10%CARIDAD CENTER: $10k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $10k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $8k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $5k → 11%PORTLAND PARKS CONSERVANCY: $5k → 7%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $10k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $10k → 8%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $25k → 14%MAINE NEEDS: $3k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NY
MA
CA
VA
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 44 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
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Total granted

$4.1M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+10%

Still filing today

77%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthInternationalOther
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

  • TC
    THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +7%
  • MC
    MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $512k · revenue +73%
  • GI
    GUNSDOWN INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +578%
  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY INC ATTN TREASURY
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • AC
    ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
5
United States Naval Institute

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.

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6
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
7
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
8
Sea Education Association Inc

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,…

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9
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.

Science & Tech
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
Maine Media College

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…

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12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine; 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.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
45/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC: $1,258,001 · EducationTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INCMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $512,000 · EducationMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNBREAKWATER LEARNING: $157,750 · EducationBREAKWATER LEARNINGCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $150,000 · EducationCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC+6 more: $78,000 · EducationNEW VENTURE FUND FBO THE FUND FOR A SAFER FUTURE: $250,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND FBO THE FU…SANDOWAY DISCOVERY CENTER: $135,000 · OtherSANDOWAY DISCOVERY CENTERAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherCaridad Center Inc: $52,500 · OtherGlobal Impact: $50,000 · Other+43 more: $520,000 · Other+43 moreGUNSDOWN INC: $265,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $77,400 · Arts & CultureBrookline Arts Center: $65,000 · Arts & CultureSAIL MAINE: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSPACE Gallery: $30,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation: $24,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $11,500 · Arts & CultureISSUE ONE: $195,000 · Public BenefitSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $20,000 · Public BenefitUTEC Inc: $187,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC: $150,000 · Employment
Education$2,155,751Other$1,062,500Civil Rights$270,000Arts & Culture$267,900Public Benefit$215,000Youth Development$189,500Employment$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC: $1,258,001 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $512,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGUNSDOWN INC: $265,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetISSUE ONE: $195,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUTEC Inc: $187,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKWATER LEARNING: $157,750 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $150,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC: $150,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $77,400 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBrookline Arts Center: $65,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetSAIL MAINE: $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCaridad Center Inc: $52,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGlobal Impact: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPACE Gallery: $30,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE: $25,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMaine Donor Alliance Fund: $20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC: $16,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMARALLIANCE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUplift Afghanistan Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLE JARDIN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPortland Parks Conservancy: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATE TOMORROW CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE LAB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI MAINE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION 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 Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Pitzer College ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL ↗
  • Who funds Maine Donor Alliance Fund ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Onion FoundationSam L Cohen FoundationThe Widgeon Point Cha…The Kirby Family Foun…Anderson Family Found…The Skerryvore Founda…The Old Bug Light Cha…The Harold & Mary Lou…The Bob Crewe Foundat…Phineas W Sprague Mem…The Mimi Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME30.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Algar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Algar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
10report 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 73 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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