· Private foundation
Carol and David Hancock Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MITCHELL INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| CASCO PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| CASCO FIRE AND RESCUE | $5,557 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| AGASSIZ VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| HARRISON FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| TEAM LONG RUN | $5,000 |
| FOOD WORKS | $5,000 |
| BRIDGTON FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| CASCO FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- TLTEAM LONG RUN6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue -3%
- USUNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +25%
- CPCASCO PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2023–2025 · $25k
Funded once
- SOSEEDS OF PEACE INCone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -43%
- GOGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +79%
- PSPORTLAND STAGE COMPANYone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -55%
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.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
Public library
We support the self-determination of Wabanaki People through Education, Truth-Telling, Restorative Justice, and Restorative Practices in Wabanaki and Maine communities. We design out structures and processes to be responsive to Wabanaki…
The mission of Needlepoint Sanctuary is to realize the meaning of the word sanctuary within our community and reduce the harms associated with drug use, poverty, and social inequality.
Gateway Community Service seeks to encourage, support and build healthy connections with oneself and others in order to promote vibrancy and well-being, along with welcoming communities where all people feel accepted, valued and have a…
The locker project connects food-insecure children in maine with nourishing food to improve their learning capacity, health, and future.
Penobscot Christian School exists to provide classical Christian education that cultivates life-long learners who love God, love others, and engage culture.
Facilitate the collection and quality assurance of lake monitoring data gathered from over 500 state of maine lakes
Provide safe, high quality food products to non profit organiztions that deliver meals to seniors and the homeless
To grow food justice in Greater Portland by providing education, resources, and opportunities to cultivate and share culturally familiar food.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Stage Company and the most unlike its peers is Oxford Hills Community Gardens. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 TEAM LONG RUN ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
- Who funds OXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds CROSSWALK COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds HARRISON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BRIDGTON FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds World of Change ↗
- Who funds AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS ↗
- Who funds SEA CHANGE YOGA ↗
- Who funds Bridgton Academy ↗
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 · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · United Way Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Carol and David Hancock Charitable Trust 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.
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