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Burns Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Burns Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2026still arriving
34
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MHealth$828kYouth Development$510kAnimals$330kEnvironment$245kHuman Services$215kHousing & Shelter$145kEmployment$85kOther$0
02FY2026 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $491k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $516k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE$200,000
TOWN OF SOUTH BRISTOL MAINE$140,550
LINCOLN ACADEMY$125,000
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$25,000
FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION$25,000
MIDCOAST HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
LIFEFLIGHT OF MAINE$25,000
HEARTY ROOTS$25,000
DARROWBY FARM SANCTUARY$20,000
MILES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL LEAGUE THRIFT STORE$20,000
COASTAL RIVERS CONSERVATION TRUST$20,000
MISSION WORKING DOGS$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%MISSION WORKING DOGS: $20k → 13%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MISSION WORKING DOGS: $20k → 13%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MISSION WORKING DOGS: $10k → 13%KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION INC: $10k → 9%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $300k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50k → 7%THE LINCOLN HOME: $15k → 9%THE LINCOLN HOME: $15k → 9%THE LINCOLN HOME: $10k → 9%THE LINCOLN HOME: $10k → 9%THE LINCOLN HOME: $10k → 9%THE LINCOLN HOME: $10k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $30k → 9%MOBIUS INC: $30k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $30k → 9%ELDER CARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $25k → 9%MOBIUS INC: $20k → 9%MOBIUS INC: $20k → 9%ELDER CARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $20k → 9%MOBIUS INC: $20k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $20k → 9%ELDER CARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $15k → 9%MOBIUS INC: $10k → 9%MOBIUS INC: $10k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $10k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $10k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $10k → 9%ELDER CARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $5k → 9%COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $35k → 9%COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $35k → 9%COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $35k → 9%COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $35k → 9%COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $35k → 9%COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $35k → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 36 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
9

Total granted

$4.7M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+5%

Still filing today

64%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CL
    CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $734k · revenue +68%
  • OS
    Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute
    6× · 2021–2026 · $550k · revenue +14%
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY
    6× · 2021–2026 · $210k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • LC
    LINCOLN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • HR
    HOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • DN
    DAMARISCOTTA NEWCASTLE LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
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
LincolnHealth Group

LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.

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2
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
3
LincolnHealth Medical Partners Inc

The Corporation operates for the purpose of providing medical & health services, including primary & specialized care, through licensed physicians & other health professionals primarily in Lincoln County, Maine. Effective February 5, 2023…

Health
4
Dennysville Housing

Provide housing for individuals who are elderly or have disabilities

Human Services
5
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
6
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc

Loon Echo Land Trust protects land in the northern Sebago Lake region to conserve its natural resources and character for future generations.

Environment
7
Waldo County General Hospital

Waldo County General Hospital's mission is to be the BEST - Better, Empathy, Service and Teamwork. Our goal is to ensure quality, accessible and affordable health care services and to improve the health and well-being of our community.

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8
Learningworks

Equipping Maine learners with the confidence and skills to realize their full potential.

Human Services
9
Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

—
10
Maine Council on Aging

A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…

Unclassified
11
Lincoln County Community Health Center Northwest Community Health Center

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).

Health
12
Maine Life Care Retirement Community Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eldercare Network of Lincoln County; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 51 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF SOUTH BRISTOL MAINE: $394,100 · OtherTOWN OF SOUTH BRISTOL MAINESOUTH BRISTOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $228,000 · OtherSOUTH BRISTOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFOWA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $170,000 · OtherFOWA ANIMAL RESCUE INCCENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY ADULT & COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $125,250 · OtherCENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY ADULT & COMMUNITY E…MIDCOAST HUMANE SOCIETY: $105,000 · OtherMIDCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYTHE CARPENTERS BOAT SHOP: $95,000 · OtherSERVICE DOG STRONG: $75,000 · OtherLINCOLNHEALTH: $75,000 · OtherCHIP INC: $60,000 · Other+22 more: $461,476 · Other+22 moreOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $550,000 · Human ServicesOlympia Snowe Women's Leader…THE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $210,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF…COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $110,000 · Human ServicesCOASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOLMOBIUS INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesMOBIUS INCThe Lincoln Home: $70,000 · Human ServicesThe Lincoln HomeELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $65,000 · Human ServicesFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMission Working Dogs: $50,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $733,845 · HealthCENTRAL LINCOLN COU…LINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL INC: $37,816 · HealthMedical Care Development Inc: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthLINCOLN ACADEMY: $605,000 · EducationLINCOLN ACADEMYSKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $103,998 · EducationSKIDOMPHA LIBRAR…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationA LIFE LINE: $92,000 · AnimalsDarrowby Farm Sanctuary: $30,000 · AnimalsCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $90,000 · EnvironmentSTEPPING STONE HOUSING INC: $65,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,788,826Human Services$1,225,000Health$816,661Education$713,998Animals$122,000Environment$90,000Housing & Shelter$65,000

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 budgetCENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $733,845 over 6y, 14% of budgetLINCOLN ACADEMY: $605,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $550,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $210,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetCOASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $110,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMOBIUS INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $103,998 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetTHE CARPENTERS BOAT SHOP: $95,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetA LIFE LINE: $92,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $90,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Lincoln Home: $70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPPING STONE HOUSING INC: $65,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $65,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCHIP INC: $60,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMission Working Dogs: $50,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetRUTHERFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL INC: $37,816 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHEARTY ROOTS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $32,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetMedical Care Development Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRSU #1 EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MID COAST MAINE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MOBIUS INC ↗
  • Who funds SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CARPENTERS BOAT SHOP ↗
  • Who funds A LIFE LINE ↗
  • Who funds Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLNHEALTH ↗
  • Who funds The Lincoln Home ↗
  • Who funds STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Mission Working Dogs ↗
  • Who funds RUTHERFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTY ROOTS INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Medical Care Development Inc ↗
  • Who funds Darrowby Farm Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds LifeFlight of Maine LLC ↗
  • Who funds MaineHealth Services ↗

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…Reny Charitable Found…The Marjorie C Bailey…Leach Elizabeth Ann P…Bangor Savings Bank F…Davis Family Foundati…Seven Trees IncThe Esta Kramer Found…Norman N & Gale R Hoc…Dorothy G & Stanley E…Horizon Foundation IncQuimby Family Foundat…
Maine Community Foundation IncME42.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Burns Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burns Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 51 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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