How much did BILL AND JOAN ALFOND grant in FY2024?

Education$9.0MPhilanthropy$1.9MHealth$1.4MHuman Services$1.1MCommunity Improvement$389kHousing & Shelter$366kArts & Culture$345kFood & Nutrition$274kRecreation & Sports$242kOther$9.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

belgrade libraryportlandribbonlakesisrael congregationtrailshospice

2019

sportschildren's booksthomaschallengescholarshipsdexterwaterville

2020

covidstudentemergency reliefmain streetdare northwardeducationpartnership

2021

challengedare northwardpartnershipeducare

2022

donor advisedadvised disqualifieddisqualified personperson advisoryadvisory privilegesacceleratordare northward

2023

asylumwinslowpurchasechildren's booksdirigo labsbuildinglacrosse

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $55k
$10k–50k13 grants · $240k
$50k–250k6 grants · $752k
$250k+5 grants · $2.4M

$13,625

Median grant

States reached

$81M

Total assets

Largest grants

COLBY COLLEGE$600,173
KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$500,000
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED$500,000
BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$398,225
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED$395,000
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$248,038
CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM$200,000
10TH MOUNTAIN SKI CLUB$100,000
MAINE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT #46$93,750
THOMAS COLLEGE$60,346
KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY BETTERMENT COLLABORATIVE$31,600
EASTPORT PORT AUTHORITY$25,697
JOBS FOR MAINE'S GRADUATES INC$25,000
FRIENDS OF QUARRY ROAD$25,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$21M · 69 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

69 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$21M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+62%

Still filing today

70%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

BM
BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +389%
PH
PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC
3× · 2021–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +44%
KV
KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
4× · 2017–2024 · $801k · revenue +50%

Funded once

MH
MAINEGENERAL HEALTH
one grant, 2020 · $151k
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENNEBEC VALLEY
one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -41%
EP
EASTPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $71k · revenue +162% · 30% of their budget

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.

Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation

Maine Public is Maine's premier, independent media resource serving the entirety of Maine, dedicated to creating exceptional opportunities for the communities it serves to engage with critical issues, compelling stories, and quality…

Arts & Culture

MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health

Kennebunkport Conservation Trust

The Trust is dedicated to preserving land for use by current and future generations, and to managing properties in a way that reflects the natural and cultural heritage of Kennebunkport.

Environment

Eastern Maine Medical Center

Eastern Maine Medical Center d/b/a Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center strives to provide exceptional primary and specialty healthcare with a passionate pursuit of excellence in patient safety, clinical quality, and service. Our…

Health

Maine Coast Fishermens Assn

We work to ensure that fishermen have a community infrastructure and the environmental resources to maintain maines coastal cultural identity and sustain a vibrant working waterfront for each generation of maine fishermen through…

Environment

Maine Farmland Trust

Maine farmland trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition

Waypoint Maine Inc

Assist developmentally disabled persons.

Human Services

Currier Gallery of Art

Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.

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Central Maine Medical Center

Cmmc strives to provide exceptional healthcare services. the hospital depends on the expertise of its caregivers in addition to the commitment and compassion they provide.

Health

Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities

The Hospital is a not-for-profit entity established to provide health care services through its acute care facility and physician practices.

Health

Sportsman's Alliance of Maine

To promote field sports and conservation through multiple mediums and events.

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Colby-Sawyer College

Institute of Higher Learning

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Noble and Greenough School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/100

the rest of the field

4,363/47,048

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.

05the grantee network

93 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

92/93

Grantees still filing

71/93

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$8,969,024Other$9,853,817Philanthropy$1,914,053Health$1,356,064Human Services$1,134,069Community Improvement$389,114Housing & Shelter$365,600

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.

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 Foundation IncME75.4× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Onion Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Kennebec Savings Bank 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 organisation BILL AND JOAN ALFOND 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: USA LACROSSE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521845242 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on USA LACROSSE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 57% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Bill and Joan Alfond?

Find your warmest path to Bill and Joan Alfond through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BILL AND JOAN ALFOND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

93 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bill and Joan Alfond?

More from the funding graph

BILL AND JOAN ALFOND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

93 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bill and Joan Alfond?

More from the funding graph