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Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$338k
Granted FY2026still arriving
26
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.0MHealth$578kHousing & Shelter$577kArts & Culture$399kFood & Nutrition$289kEnvironment$272kHuman Services$149kRecreation & Sports$146kOther$0
02FY2026 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k12 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMEWORTHY$85,000
HOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL$60,000
NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL$20,000
BELFAST SOUP KITCHEN$15,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
BIG ARTS$12,500
CLINIC FOR REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE$10,000
FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE$10,000
FISH OF SANIBEL CAPTIVA INC$10,000
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
SANIBEL CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$10,000
SPACE GALLERY$10,000
UNITED MID-COAST CHARITIES INC$10,000
KENNEBEC VALLEY YMCA$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $735k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE FAMILY PLACE: $2k → 14%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $2k → 10%FISH OF SANIBEL CAPTIVA INC: $10k → 11%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $1k → 10%MOTHERS GRACE: $5k → 11%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES: $3k → 9%FISH OF SANIBEL CAPTIVA INC: $10k → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL CAPTIVA INC: $10k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $10k → 11%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $5k → 11%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $3k → 11%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $1k → 11%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%COASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS: $600 → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $120k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $100k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $90k → 11%HOMEWORTHY: $85k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $70k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $67k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $55k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $40k → 11%CAFE: $15k → 7%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 11%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
NH
WA
NY
MA
OR
CT
RI
CA
UT
MD
AZ
DC
HI
MS
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 67 repeat orgs$770k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2026, 53 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
55

Total granted

$3.6M
$627k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+24%

Still filing today

64%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • H
    Homeworthy
    9× · 2018–2026 · $647k · revenue +159%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    3× · 2022–2024 · $206k · revenue +28%
  • PW
    Piney Woods School
    2× · 2020–2023 · $189k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2025 · $60k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • NR
    NATIONAL RESOURCE COUNCIL OF MAINE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
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
2
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
3
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
4
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

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

Science & Tech
5
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
6
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
7
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
8
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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9
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
12
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
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 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.
04the grantee network

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 136 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/88
Grantees still filing
66/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY: $661,000 · OtherMAINE MARITIME ACADEMYPen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundation: $150,000 · OtherPen Bay Waldo Healthcare FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMID-COAST RECREATION CENTER INC: $91,000 · Other+75 more: $1,203,280 · Other+75 moreHomeworthy: $647,000 · Human ServicesHomeworthyFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $30,000 · Human Services+9 more: $64,500 · Human Services+9 morePiney Woods School: $188,700 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $60,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES: $37,500 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $15,000 · Education+7 more: $29,500 · EducationBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $92,500 · HealthBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $50,000 · HealthMaineHealth: $25,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $17,500 · Health+3 more: $22,000 · HealthPortland Museum of Art: $80,000 · Arts & CultureSPACE Gallery: $53,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePoints North Institute: $14,000 · Arts & CultureTEMPOART: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $79,000 · Arts & CultureGood Shepherd Food Bank: $206,120 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANK: $40,000 · Food & NutritionBelfast Soup Kitchen: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $50,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $30,000 · EnvironmentSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,500 · Environment
Other$2,255,280Human Services$741,500Education$330,700Health$327,000Arts & Culture$309,000Food & Nutrition$261,120Environment$111,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHomeworthy: $647,000 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $206,120 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPiney Woods School: $188,700 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $92,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMID-COAST RECREATION CENTER INC: $91,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $55,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSPACE Gallery: $53,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES: $37,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMaineHealth: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PHOENIX FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAFE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMIDCOAST HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $14,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPoints North Institute: $14,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTEMPOART: $12,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSecond Growth Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Telling Room: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAIL MAINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 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 HOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
  • Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds THE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗

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.

Arthur K Watson Trust…Maine Community Found…Middlecott FoundationOnion FoundationDavis Family Foundati…The Vermont Community…New Hampshire Charita…Sam L Cohen FoundationMascoma Bank Foundati…Messler Family Founda…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Fisher Charitable Fou…
Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001IL41.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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How do I get to Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000?

Find your warmest path to Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 136 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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