· Private foundation
Atlantic Charitable Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trinity Jubilee Center | $35,000 |
| Tedford Housing | $17,000 |
| Milestone Recovery | $12,500 |
| The Northern Lighthouse | $6,000 |
| New Beginnings Inc | $6,000 |
| Genesis Community Loan Fund | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- PSPREBLE STREET3× · 2020–2022 · $90k · revenue +50%
- TJTrinity Jubilee Center Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +739%
- MRMILESTONE RECOVERY5× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- SHSHAW HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
- RGRUMFORD GROUP HOMES INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +16%
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.
To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
Safe harbour provides a continuum of housing and supportive services for homeless and nearly homeless individuals and families in our communities.
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
Midcoast Maine Homeless Coalition works to end the cycle of homelessness for individual families in Waldo County, Maine through innovation and collaboration around affordable housing and this program is designed to do just that. Family…
Assisting and housing females in recovery
We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.
Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to…
Resource for housing and other essential needs
To build better lives and stronger communities across Maine, The Opportunity Alliance supports people with the programs and resources they need to improve their health, safety, and stability.
Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…
To provide quality affordable housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rumford Group Homes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tedford Housing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds Trinity Jubilee Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds TEDFORD HOUSING ↗
- Who funds New Beginnings ↗
- Who funds Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK INC ↗
- Who funds Rural Community Action Ministry ↗
- Who funds Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Penobscot Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHAW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RUMFORD GROUP HOMES 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Narragansett Number One Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Libra Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Good Shepherd Food Bank
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 Atlantic Charitable Fund 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.
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.