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Barbara and J Harrison Holman Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$159k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of BARBARA AND J HARRISON HOLMAN CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$19,599
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROMAN W DESANCTIS LEGACY ENDOWMENT$23,840
CASCO PUBLIC LIBRARY$20,000
THE GATHERING PLACE$20,000
PINK FEATHER FOUNDATION$20,000
LOCAL SOLUTIONS$19,599
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$15,893
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE FOUNDATION$15,000
AGASSIZ VILLAGE$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC: $10k → 9%RIDING TO THE TOP: $13k → 7%HARPSWELL AGING AT HOME: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$297k · 7 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$297k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+3%

Still filing today

57%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthPublic Safety & DisasterReligionOther

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

  • RW
    ROMAN W DESANCTIS LEGACY ENDOWMENT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $88k
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $59k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k

Funded once

  • HN
    HARPSWELL NECK PHYSICAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $23k
  • HR
    HOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +8% · 26% of their budget
  • SS
    STONE SOUP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
2
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
3
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
4
Maine State Troopers Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Southern Maine Affordable Housing

To provide quality affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
6
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
7
Portsmouth Reads
Education
8
Homeless Services of Aroostook Inc

Provide temporary housing and counseling services for the homeless of northern maine

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9
Maine Veterinary Education Foundation
Education
10
Preble Street

To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.

Human Services
11
Oceanview Resident Assistance Fund Inc
Philanthropy
12
Kestrel Foundation of Maine
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Pink Feather Foundation. 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

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 22 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROMAN W DESANCTIS LEGACY ENDOWMENT — $88,124 · OtherROMAN W DESANCTIS LEGACY ENDOWMENTMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $58,749 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS — $35,000 · OtherAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHSHARPSWELL NECK PHYSICAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $23,240 · OtherHARPSWELL NECK PHYSICAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONCASCO PUBLIC LIBRARY — $20,000 · OtherCASCO PUBLIC LIBRARYSTONE SOUP FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherSTONE SOUP FOUNDATIONLOCAL SOLUTIONS — $19,599 · OtherLOCAL SOLUTIONSMaineHealth — $15,000 · Other+2 more — $12,500 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FO…HOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOUSING RESOU…PINK FEATHER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPINK FEATHER …University of Maine Foundation — $52,500 · EducationUniversity…University of Southern Maine Foundation — $22,500 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $20,000 · PhilanthropyHOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Arts & CultureRIDING TO THE TOP — $13,240 · Human ServicesMAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHARPSWELL AGING AT HOME — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE — $20,000 · Religion
Other$332,212Youth Development$72,500Education$52,500Philanthropy$42,500Arts & Culture$35,000Human Services$33,240Religion$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation — $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS — $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $32,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH — $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetLOCAL SOLUTIONS — $19,599 over 1y, 37% of budgetMaineHealth — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDING TO THE TOP — $13,240 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHARPSWELL AGING AT HOME — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetOrr's & Bailey Islands Fire Department — $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetORRS ISLAND LIBRARY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…The Alfred M Senter F…Schiavi Family Founda…Simmons Foundation - …John T Gorman Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust · Schiavi Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · John T Gorman Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Barbara and J Harrison Holman Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Barbara and J Harrison Holman Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Barbara and J Harrison Holman Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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