· Private foundation
Carl S Poole Jr Charitable Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARING FOR KIDS | $25,000 |
| WABANAKI PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS | $10,000 |
| BRISTOL AREA LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOUSE IN THE WOODS | $10,000 |
| RUTHERFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| VEGGIES TO TABLE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 72% 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
- TCTHE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +3%
- CFCARING FOR KIDS5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +8%
- FDFour Directions Development Corporation4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +186%
Funded once
- CLCENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +35%
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.
Provide firewood for heat for local residents in need.
Protect and conserve upper and lower wilson ponds and their surrounding areas for the benefit of residents and visitors alike.
The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.
Provide temporary housing and counseling services for the homeless of northern maine
The lincoln county foood bank is organized to provide food assistance to those individuals who are economically disadvantaged and without adequate food sources.
The burrillville land trust is dedicated to maintaining the town's rural character by preserving open space, protecting the beauty and viability of our farms, and preserving the woodlands, meadows, ponds, and rivers around us.
To provide one-time emergency assistance to windham, me residents experiencing a critical need for fuel, help direct individuals to appropriate long-term resources, and promote a culture of neighbors helping neighbors.
Repair and/or renovate homes in the town of manchester, ct with assistance of community volunteers.
Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land
Aquidneck community table works in the areas of health, environment, agriculture and aquaculture to build a thriving local economy and make healthy food accessible to all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc and the most unlike its peers is Veggies to Table. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds House in the Woods Inc ↗
- Who funds Four Directions Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC ↗
- Who funds VEGGIES TO TABLE ↗
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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Reny Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Carl S Poole Jr Charitable 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 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.