· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONG MEADOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN | $15,000 |
| MONADNOCK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $13,000 |
| CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC | $10,000 |
| DEBORAHS PLACE | $8,500 |
| WRRAP | $8,000 |
| REHAB FIVE LTD | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $5,000 |
| MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION | $5,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL | $5,000 |
| CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WILLIAMS BE YOURSELF CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| REX THE TV TERRIER INC | $4,000 |
| CARLISLE POLICE ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 105 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds Friends For Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
- Who funds ALMOST HOME ANIMAL RESCUE & ADOPTION INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bailey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bailey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Newburyport Art Association Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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