· Private foundation
Cascade Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $321k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $382k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRAXA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| NATIONAL FRAGILE X FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATER | $76,813 |
| ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION | $75,000 |
| KNOX COUNTY HEALTH CLINIC | $70,000 |
| MERCER MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $25,000 |
| PLEASANT RIVER FISH & GAME | $25,000 |
| VICTORIA MANSION | $25,000 |
| MAINE FAMILY PLANNING | $25,000 |
| MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| WAYFINDER SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR WORLD HEALTH | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +46% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- TNTHE NATIONAL FRAGILE X FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $415k · revenue +46%
Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $280k · revenue +196%- MHMID-COAST HEALTH NET INC7× · 2018–2024 · $240k · revenue +223%
Funded once
- PBPENN BAY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $73k
- SISMITHSONIAN INSTUTION LIBRARIESone grant, 2019 · $20k
- SISMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIESone grant, 2020 · $15k
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the museum of science is to inspire a lifelong love of science in everyone. through exhibits, curricula, programs, and events, both live and virtual, we aim to make science and scientific thinking accessible, engaging, and…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
At the children's museum & theatre of maine, we set the stage for every child to imagine and learn through play.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 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. 48 of the 70 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 NATIONAL FRAGILE X FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds MID-COAST HEALTH NET INC ↗
- Who funds FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Victoria Mansion ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Reef Relief Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds MEGUNTICOOK ROWING ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds Partners for World Health ↗
- Who funds The Owls Head Transportation Museum ↗
- Who funds Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Abbe Museum ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
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 · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001 · Libra Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Middlecott Foundation · Onion Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Ibm International 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 Cascade 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% 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.