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Biosophical Institute Inc at a glance

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Biosophical Institute Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$31kHuman Services$30kEducation$29kInternational$17kCivil Rights$17kReligion$10kCrime & Legal$10kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES MAINE$10,000
EUPHRATES INSTITUTE$5,000
NORTH OMAHA MUSICARTTHE NOW INITIATIVE$5,000
NATIONAL PEACE ACADEMY$5,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$5,000
MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ROTARY CLUB OF BATH$400
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE EMERGENCY ACTION NETWORK: $10k → 7%GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES MAINE: $10k → 7%GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES MAINE: $10k → 7%BATH AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $2k → 9%BATH AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
OH
CA
NE
MO
VA
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AZ
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Biosophical Institute Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Biosophical Institute Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 10 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -51% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$68k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-51%

Still filing today

70%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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

  • GC
    Gateway Community Services Maine
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +0%
  • TE
    THE EUPHRATES INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +15%
  • MY
    MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark
    2× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue ×13

Funded once

  • PE
    PEACE EDUCATION CENTER OF HUDSON VALLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • RJ
    RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INSTITUTE OF MA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TP
    THE PEACE ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

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Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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2
Maine Arts Academy

The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…

Education
3
Maine Humanities Council

The maine humanities council (the council) is a not-for profit corporation that is funded primarily by grants from the national endowment for the humanities (neh) and contributions from the public. the council conducts public programs in…

Arts & Culture
4
Millennial Action Project Dba Future Caucus

Future Caucus has an audacious mission: activate young leaders to bridge the partisan divide and transform American Politics.

Public Benefit
5
Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health
6
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.

Human Services
7
Camden Conference

The camden conference fosters informed discourse on world issues.

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8
Maine Film Center

To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.

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9
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture
10
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…

Community Improvement
11
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
12
EqualityMaine

EqualityMaine works to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through political action, community building, education,…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Tri Vally Area; the most unlike its peers is Main Street Bath. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEACE EDUCATION CENTER OF HUDSON VALLEY: $14,100 · OtherPEACE EDUCATION CENTER OF HUDSON VALLEYMORSE HIGH SCHOOL: $10,730 · OtherMORSE HIGH SCHOOLRESTORATIVE JUSTICE INSTITUTE OF MA: $10,000 · OtherRESTORATIVE JUSTICE INSTITUTE OF MATHE PEACE ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE PEACE ALLIANCE INCSHOW ME THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherSHOW ME THE ARTS FOUNDATIONNORTH OMAHA MUSICARTTHE NOW INITIATIVE: $10,000 · OtherNORTH OMAHA MUSICARTTHE NOW INITIATIVEDANIEL GORMAN JRUNIVERSITY OF ROCHE: $10,000 · OtherDANIEL GORMAN JRUNIVERSITY OF ROCHEUNITED WAY OF TRI VALLY AREA: $6,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF TRI VALLY AREA+7 more: $10,950 · Other+7 moreGateway Community Services Maine: $20,000 · Human ServicesGateway Community Serv…EMERGENCY ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ACTION NETWO…Bath Area Back Pack Program: $2,500 · Human ServicesBath Area Back Pack Pr…THE EUPHRATES INSTITUTE: $12,000 · InternationalTHE EUPHRATE…NATIONAL PEACE ACADEMY: $5,000 · InternationalNATIONAL PEA…Alliance for Global Justice Corp: $1,500 · InternationalAlliance for…CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER: $4,500 · Arts & CulturePEACE ENTERTAINMENT PROJECT INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMain Street Bath: $1,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$92,280Human Services$32,500International$18,500Arts & Culture$12,000Civil Rights$5,000Youth Development$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,000

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 budgetGateway Community Services Maine: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE EUPHRATES INSTITUTE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEMERGENCY ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI VALLY AREA: $6,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PEACE ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER: $4,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPEACE ENTERTAINMENT PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSOME INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBath Area Back Pack Program: $2,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMain Street Bath: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Biosophical Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Biosophical Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Biosophical Institute Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Biosophical Institute Inc 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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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