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Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $60,000 |
| MIDCOAST RECREATION CENTER | $50,000 |
| KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION | $40,000 |
| NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES | $20,000 |
| MAINEHEALTH | $20,000 |
| SPACE GALLERY | $16,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| UNITED MID-COAST CHARITIES INC | $10,000 |
| FISH OF SANIBEL CAPTIVA INC | $10,000 |
| NORWICH COMMUNITY NURSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATER OF MAINE | $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 (FY18–25, $640k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- HHomeworthy8× · 2018–2025 · $562k · revenue +159%
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank3× · 2022–2024 · $206k · revenue +28%
- PWPiney Woods School2× · 2020–2023 · $189k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- NRNATIONAL RESOURCE COUNCIL OF MAINEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- BCBRING CHANGE 2 MINDone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +6%
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 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…
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
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…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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.
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
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 Classical Uprising. 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 124 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 Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds Pen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds MID-COAST RECREATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND ↗
- Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds THE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PHOENIX FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Middlecott Foundation · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Messler Family Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Fisher Charitable 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 Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000 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.
- Second Wind Foundation — 85% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc — 33% of income from government
- Advance Transit Inc — 18% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Norwich Community Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- St Luke's Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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.
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