· Private foundation
Burns Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $287k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH BRISTOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| LINCOLN ACADEMY | $125,000 |
| CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE | $55,000 |
| OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY | $35,000 |
| FOWA ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $30,000 |
| STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC | $20,000 |
| MIDCOAST HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY ADULT & COMMUNITY EDUCATION | $12,000 |
| CARPENTER'S BOAT SHOP | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL INC | $10,000 |
| HEALTHY LINCOLN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL | $10,000 |
| A LIFE LINE | $10,000 |
| CHIP INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CLCENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $534k · revenue +68%
- OSOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +14%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $175k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- LCLINCOLN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2021 · $15k
- HRHOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTHone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- DNDAMARISCOTTA NEWCASTLE LIONS CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
Loon Echo Land Trust protects land in the northern Sebago Lake region to conserve its natural resources and character for future generations.
Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Building strong communities through access to quality affordable patient centered healthcare to the medically underserved population of Lincoln County, Montana in accordance with requirements set forth in 42 U.S.C. 254C(C)(3)(G).
Maine Life Care Retirement Community (dba Piper Shores) offers a vibrant retirement living lifestyle that enriches residents by providing a continuum of the highest quality of care and service. Piper Shores will help all residents realize…
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Equipping Maine learners with the confidence and skills to realize their full potential.
Emergency ambulance services for 911 response. We primarily serve the three adjacent communities of Mars Hill Blaine and Bridgewater Maine and the unorganized townships nearby.
The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.
The mission of the Center is to provide affordable, adult housing and vital community services to promote health and independence
Public lending library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eldercare Network of Lincoln County and the most unlike its peers is The Carpenters Boat Shop. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOBIUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARPENTERS BOAT SHOP ↗
- Who funds A LIFE LINE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNHEALTH ↗
- Who funds Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Lincoln Home ↗
- Who funds CHIP INC ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Mission Working Dogs ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds Medical Care Development Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTY ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Darrowby Farm Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID COAST MAINE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Reny Charitable Foundation · The Marjorie C Bailey Charitable Foundation · Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Seven Trees Inc · The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust · Norman N & Gale R Hochgraf Charitable Foundation · Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Quimby Family 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 Burns Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.