· Private foundation
Cain Brothers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE | $45,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDENS | $42,500 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES | $25,000 |
| NAPLES WOMENS CLUB | $12,000 |
| WARNER THEATRE | $10,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SHARON PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $6,220 |
| CORNWALL PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| CORNWALL CHILD CENTER | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TWTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL5× · 2018–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +30%
- SSSALISBURY SCHOOL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $581k · revenue +60%
GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $95k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- PSPARK SHORE TOWERS OWNERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CFCORNWALL FOOD & FUEL FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
- PSPARK SHORE ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +85%
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Conservation of land
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
Natural resource conservation & protection
Land conservation
Our mission is to cultivate the resilience of our coastal pond ecosystems through science, collaboration, and education.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Great Mountain Forest Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds GFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNWALL CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARK SHORE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BUTTERFIELD COUNTRY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM C/O WILLIAM CAPRARO JR ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EFFORTZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF N WEST CT ↗
- Who funds The Cornwall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GOSHEN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Conservation District Inc ↗
- Who funds Great Mountain Forest Corporation ↗
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: Joseph and Barbara Ellis Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cain Brothers Foundation 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.
- Northwest Conservation District Inc — 30% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
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.