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Carol and David Hancock Charitable Trust at a glance

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Carol and David Hancock Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$68kRecreation & Sports$61kArts & Culture$60kFood & Nutrition$46kInternational$30kAnimals$25kHuman Services$22kReligion$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MITCHELL INSTITUTE$25,000
CASCO PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,000
CASCO FIRE AND RESCUE$5,557
Individual grant recipient$5,500
HARRISON FOOD BANK$5,000
AGASSIZ VILLAGE$5,000
FOOD WORKS$5,000
TEAM LONG RUN$5,000
BRIDGTON FOOD PANTRY$2,500
CASCO FOOD PANTRY$2,500
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CROSSWALK COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $15k → 7%SEA CHANGE YOGA: $4k → 7%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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$140k · 7 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$140k
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+11%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentInternationalReligionOther
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

  • TL
    TEAM LONG RUN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue -3%
  • US
    UNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +25%
  • CP
    CASCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $25k

Funded once

  • SO
    SEEDS OF PEACE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -43%
  • GO
    GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +79%
  • PS
    PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -55%
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 GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
2
Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation

The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.

Philanthropy
3
Fork Food Lab

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,…

Environment
4
Bridgton Public Library

Public library

Education
5
Maine-Wabanaki Reach

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Needlepoint Sanctuary of Maine

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.

Health
7
Gateway Community Services Maine

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…

Human Services
8
Locker Project

The locker project connects food-insecure children in maine with nourishing food to improve their learning capacity, health, and future.

Food & Nutrition
9
Penobscot Christian School

Penobscot Christian School exists to provide classical Christian education that cultivates life-long learners who love God, love others, and engage culture.

Education
10
Lake Stewards of Maine - Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program

Facilitate the collection and quality assurance of lake monitoring data gathered from over 500 state of maine lakes

Environment
11
Birch Stream Farms

Provide safe, high quality food products to non profit organiztions that deliver meals to seniors and the homeless

Food & Nutrition
12
Cultivating Community

To grow food justice in Greater Portland by providing education, resources, and opportunities to cultivate and share culturally familiar food.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Stage Company; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASCO PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25,000 · OtherCASCO PUBLIC LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient: $20,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOXFORD HILLS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherOXFORD HILLS SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $6,700 · OtherCASCO VILLAGE CHURCH: $6,075 · OtherCASCO FIRE AND RESCUE: $5,557 · OtherOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS: $20,000 · OtherOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENSCROSSWALK COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $15,000 · OtherCROSSWALK COMMUNITY OUTREACHHARRISON FOOD BANK: $10,000 · OtherHARRISON FOOD BANKBRIDGTON FOOD PANTRY: $8,500 · Other+9 more: $38,085 · Other+9 moreTEAM LONG RUN: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM LONG RUNSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $30,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF …UNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC: $30,000 · ReligionUNITED SO…Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $25,000 · EducationSenator G…Bridgton Academy: $3,000 · EducationBridgton …GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $25,000 · AnimalsPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$165,417Youth Development$40,000International$30,000Religion$30,000Education$28,000Animals$25,000Arts & Culture$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEAM LONG RUN: $40,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS: $20,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCROSSWALK COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $15,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHARRISON FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRIDGTON FOOD PANTRY: $8,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWorld of Change: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEA CHANGE YOGA: $3,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBridgton Academy: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…United Way IncDavis Family Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME26.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Carol and David Hancock Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carol and David Hancock Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–50%
    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.
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    How do I get to Carol and David Hancock Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Carol and David Hancock Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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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