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Barbara and J Harrison Holman Charitable Trust at a glance

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Barbara and J Harrison Holman Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$178k
Granted FY2026still arriving
11
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$175kEducation$140kEnvironment$75kYouth Development$68kHousing & Shelter$60kHuman Services$40kRecreation & Sports$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$8k
02FY2026 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$26,585
SEA MEADOW MARINE FOUNDATION$21,662
HARPSWELL AGING AT HOME$20,000
HARPSWELL NECK FIRE AND RESCUE$20,000
ROMAN W DESANCTIS LEGACY ENDOWMENT$17,723
THOMPSON LAKE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION$15,000
RANGELEY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$13,331
SWAN ISLAND EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY$13,331
OPERATION CROSS CHECK$10,000
ORRS AND BAILEY ISLAND FIRE DEPT$10,000
FIRE RESPONDER THERAPY DOGS INC$10,000
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 (FY24–26, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC: $10k → 9%HARPSWELL AGING AT HOME: $20k → 7%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
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.
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$389k · 9 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$389k
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+19%

Still filing today

67%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentEducationHealthOther
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

  • AV
    AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS
    2× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +312%
  • HA
    HARPSWELL AGING AT HOME
    2× · 2024–2026 · $30k · revenue +3%
  • Foundation for Portland Public Schools
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +47%

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
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
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
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
4
Maine State Troopers Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Peabody Memorial Library

Our mission is to provide services cultural activities technology education and to act as a social resource to improve the quality of life in our area

—
6
Penobscot River Trails Inc
Environment
7
Southern Maine Affordable Housing

To provide quality affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
8
Maine Emergency Squad Inc

Our mission is to provide exceptional Advanced Life Support and medical care to our communities in Upstate New York. As a proud 501(c)3 non-profit organization, we serve the Town of Maine, Town of Nanticoke, the Village and Town of Newark…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
10
Portsmouth Reads
Education
11
Maine Veterinary Education Foundation
Education
12
Pulpit Harbor Foundation

To provide relief to the poor or needy living in North Haven, Maine. North Haven is an island off the coast of Maine. This relief is provided by assisting qualified island residents with the payment of medical bills, utilities, heating and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; 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

22 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. 22 of the 29 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROMAN W DESANCTIS LEGACY ENDOWMENT: $105,847 · OtherROMAN W DESANCTIS LEGACY ENDOWMENTMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $85,334 · 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 · OtherSTONE SOUP FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherCASCO PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 · OtherLOCAL SOLUTIONS: $19,599 · OtherTHE GATHERING PLACE: $20,000 · OtherOrr's & Bailey Islands Fire Department: $17,500 · OtherMaineHealth: $15,000 · Other+4 more: $38,331 · Other+4 moreUniversity of Maine Foundation: $52,500 · EducationUniversity o…HARPSWELL NECK FIRE & RESCUE INC: $20,000 · EducationHARPSWELL NE…RANGELEY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $13,331 · EducationRANGELEY LIB…THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER…HOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOUSING RE…PINK FEATHER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPINK FEATH…HARPSWELL AGING AT HOME: $30,000 · Human ServicesRIDING TO THE TOP: $13,240 · Human ServicesMAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $22,500 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $20,000 · PhilanthropySea Meadow Marine Foundation: $21,662 · EnvironmentTHOMPSON LAKE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentHOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$439,851Education$85,831Youth Development$72,500Human Services$53,240Philanthropy$42,500Environment$36,662Arts & Culture$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $32,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHARPSWELL AGING AT HOME: $30,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH: $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLOCAL SOLUTIONS: $19,599 over 1y, 37% of budgetOrr's & Bailey Islands Fire Department: $17,500 over 2y, 1.7% 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 budgetORRS ISLAND LIBRARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

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.

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

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 Barbara and J Harrison Holman Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara and J Harrison Holman Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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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