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Carl E Danforth at a glance

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Carl E Danforth

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.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$194kPhilanthropy$58kMembership Benefit$39kHuman Services$35kReligion$23kEnvironment$20kAnimals$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$3,525
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN MAINE MEDICAL CENTER$17,627
SHRINERS' HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$14,101
MT HOPE CEMETERY$7,051
UNITED WAY OF EASTERN MAINE$7,051
BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$4,230
MASONIC CHARITIES$3,525
BANGOR FUEL SOCIETY$3,525
GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY$3,525
SUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN$3,525
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,820
BANGOR HUMANE SOCIETY$2,115
Individual grant recipient$1,410
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE SALVATION ARMY: $4k → 14%MASONIC CHARITIES: $6k → 11%UNITED WAY OF EASTERN MAINE: $11k → 15%SUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN: $6k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 14%MASONIC CHARITIES: $4k → 11%MT HOPE CEMETERY: $11k → 15%SUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 14%MASONIC CHARITIES: $4k → 11%UNITED WAY OF EASTERN MAINE: $8k → 15%SUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 14%MASONIC CHARITIES: $4k → 11%MT HOPE CEMETERY: $8k → 15%SUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 14%MASONIC CHARITIES: $3k → 11%MT HOPE CEMETERY: $7k → 15%SUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 14%MASONIC CHARITIES: $3k → 11%UNITED WAY OF EASTERN MAINE: $7k → 15%SUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 15%UNITED WAY OF EASTERN MAINE: $7k → 15%MT HOPE CEMETERY: $7k → 15%MT HOPE CEMETERY: $7k → 15%UNITED WAY OF EASTERN MAINE: $7k → 15%BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $7k → 15%UNITED WAY OF EASTERN MAINE: $6k → 15%MT HOPE CEMETERY: $6k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $6k → 15%BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5k → 15%BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4k → 15%BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4k → 15%BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $4k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $4k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $4k → 15%BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $3k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $3k → 15%BANGOR HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 15%BANGOR HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 15%BANGOR HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 15%BANGOR HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 15%BANGOR HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 15%TOWN OF LAGRANGE: $2k → 15%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$458k · 12 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
0

Total granted

$458k
$0

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyReligionAnimalsOther
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

  • EM
    Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen
    6× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +35%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +106%
  • MH
    Mount Hope Cemetery Corp
    6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +3%

Funded once

    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
    Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital

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

    Health
    2
    The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital

    The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital d/b/a Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital is dedicated to improving the health and wellness of our communities by providing primary and specialty health care of outstanding quality and caring for our patients…

    Health
    3
    The Aroostook Medical Center Northern Light Ar Gould Hospital

    The mission of the Aroostook Medical Center d/b/a Northern Light A.R. Gould Hospital is to restore, maintain, and improve the health of our friends and neighbors in a compassionate and professional environment.

    Health
    4
    Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health

    EMHS d/b/a Northern Light Health, a supporting organization for healthcare affiliates, maintains and improves the health and well-being of the people of Maine through a well-organized network of local health care providers who together…

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    5
    Sebasticook Valley Health Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hosp

    Sebasticook Valley Health d/b/a Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital is a critical access hospital whose mission is to be the regional leader in meeting the health needs of our communities, providing quality care, always treating…

    Health
    6
    Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital

    Mercy Hospital d/b/a Northern Light Mercy Hospital carries out the healing work of Christ by providing clinically excellent, compassionate healthcare for all, with special concern for the poor and disadvantaged.

    Health
    7
    Lakewood Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood

    Lakewood d/b/a Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood is a 105 bed long-term care facility that provides skilled, dementia and long-term nursing care.

    Health
    8
    Vna Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice

    VNA Home Health & Hospice d/b/a Northern Light Home Care & Hospice provides clinically excellent, compassionate home health and hospice care to individuals and families

    Health
    9
    Acadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital

    The primary mission and significant activities of Acadia Hospital, Corp. d/b/a Northern Light Acadia Hospital are the provision of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and mental health services to children, adolescents, and adults.

    Health
    10
    Charles a Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light Ca Dean Hospital

    The mission of Charles A. Dean Memorial Hospital d/b/a Northern Light CA Dean Hospital is to provide a continuum of high quality holistic healthcare services.

    Health
    11
    Inland Hospital Northern Light Inland Hospital

    To care for and serve our community by providing Healthcare Services.

    Health
    12
    Mrh Corp Northern Light Mayo Hospital

    The mission of MRH Corp. d/b/a Northern Light Mayo Hospital is to provide up-to-date, high quality, compassionate and affordable healthcare.

    Health
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bangor Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Bangor Theological Seminary. 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

    9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/9
    Grantees still filing
    9/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen: $114,444 · HealthEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Easter…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $91,554 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENMount Hope Cemetery Corp: $45,786 · OtherMount Hope Cemetery CorpBANGOR FUEL SOCIETY: $23,825 · OtherBANGOR FUEL SOCIETYGOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $22,902 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN AGENCYMASONIC CHARITIES: $22,902 · OtherMASONIC CHARITIESSUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN: $22,902 · OtherSUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDRENTHE SALVATION ARMY: $18,322 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $9,163 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY: $45,786 · PhilanthropyHEART OF MA…Bangor Theological Seminary: $27,475 · ReligionBangor Humane Society: $12,819 · Animals
    Health$205,998Other$165,802Philanthropy$45,786Religion$27,475Animals$12,819

    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 budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen: $114,444 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $91,554 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMount Hope Cemetery Corp: $45,786 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY: $45,786 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBangor Theological Seminary: $27,475 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetBANGOR FUEL SOCIETY: $23,825 over 6y, 18% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $22,902 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN: $22,902 over 6y, 21% of budgetBangor Humane Society: $12,819 over 6y, 0.2% 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 Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen ↗
    • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
    • Who funds Mount Hope Cemetery Corp ↗
    • Who funds HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY ↗
    • Who funds Bangor Theological Seminary ↗
    • Who funds BANGOR FUEL SOCIETY ↗
    • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY ↗
    • Who funds SUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN ↗
    • Who funds Bangor Humane Society ↗

    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.

    Bangor Savings Bank F…Fidelity Investments …
    Bangor Savings Bank FoundationME13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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    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 Carl E Danforth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl E Danforth. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
    • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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