· Private foundation
Bailey Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $147,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $190,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN | $15,000 |
| LONG MEADOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC | $15,000 |
| MONADNOCK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $13,000 |
| CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC | $10,000 |
| DEBORAHS PLACE | $8,500 |
| WRRAP | $8,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $5,000 |
| REHAB FIVE LTD | $5,000 |
| CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION | $5,000 |
| WILLIAMS BE YOURSELF CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| GRASSROOT GIVERS INC | $4,000 |
| CARLISLE POLICE ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
40 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 11 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC2× · 2017–2018 · $36k · revenue +86%- MCMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +213%
CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- SOSOUTH OF THE SALT LTDone grant, 2023 · $31k
- DODefenders of Wildlifegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +43%
- COCHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLESone grant, 2018 · $23k
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.
Our mission is to promote the humane treatment of animals through education, advocacy, and legislation. since 1997, mfoa has been maine's leading voice for animal protection-working tirelessly to end animal cruelty in the state.
To rescue injured, sick and abandoned marine mammals and to educate the public about what to do if they find one of these marine mammals.
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.
Rescue and re-adoption of dogs and cats.
Cat Life Maine is a nonprofit animal welfare organization dedicated to reducing cat overpopulation and preventable suffering through trap-neuter-return (TNR), spay/neuter assistance, foster-based rescue, adoption, colony care, and…
Mission is to connect the Biddeford community with materials, programs, services, and other informational and cultural resources enabling fuller, better, and richer lives.
To provide animal protection and welfare organized to prevent cruelty to animals. mcra is a no-kill animal shelter with a mission to help as many homeless and unwanted animals as needed. mcra also rescues animals from high kill shelters…
The ocean state animal coalition (osac) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the status and well-being of animals in rhode island.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To rescue horses who are abused, neglected, or at-risk of slaughter.
Rescue Homeless Cats
Rescue Charlies Friends mission is to prevent cruelty to animals by rescuing dogs that are abandoned, abused, neglected or about to be euthanized. These are Charlies Friends and these are the dogs we focus on. Our mission is to rescue them…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midcoast Humane and the most unlike its peers is The Real Program 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 107 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 FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds Friends For Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds ALMOST HOME ANIMAL RESCUE & ADOPTION INC ↗
- Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
- Who funds Newburyport Art Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST LITERACY ↗
- Who funds Solutions for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE POLICE ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Bailey 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.
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Newburyport Art Association Inc — 1% 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.