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Cbp Foundation 4357-04-79

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.

$750k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202023.

Arts & Culture$4.0MCommunity Improvement$3.5MHealth$1.4MAnimals$894kPhilanthropy$750kEducation$556kScience & Tech$520kRecreation & Sports$95kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$750,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CPB FOUNDATION IRREVOCABLE TRUST$750,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THE CBP FOUNDATION IRR CHAR TR: $3.5M → 11%THE CPB FOUNDATION IRREVOCABLE TRUST: $750k → 22%WING & BARREL FOUNDATION: $45k → 9%BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST: $10k → 15%LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM: $25k → 11%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $308k → 17%NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $92k → 17%ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $20k → 5%BUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST: $15k → 11%WYOMING STATE HISTORICAL: $10k → 12%NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $200k → 6%GUNSTON SCHOOL: $200k → 7%GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL: $20k → 11%MAINE MEDICAL CENTER: $1.0M → 7%MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM: $105k → 9%LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $235k → 17%CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $19k → 17%ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $20k → 5%BUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST: $10k → 11%U S NAVY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $130k → 6%MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM: $50k → 9%LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $30k → 17%TETON COUNTY LIBRARY: $15k → 5%NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%TETON COUNTY LIBRARY: $15k → 5%U S NAVY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $30k → 6%PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $2.4M → 7%PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $330k → 7%PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $299k → 7%PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $255k → 7%PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $115k → 7%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH: $100k → 7%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH: $100k → 7%MERCY HOSPITAL: $65k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS: $50k → 7%PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $40k → 7%ASSOCIATES OF THE OSHER MAP LIBRARY: $30k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS: $30k → 7%OSHER MAP LIBRARY: $15k → 7%GREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS: $15k → 7%MAINE CANCER FOUNDATION: $145k → 7%MAINE CANCER FOUNDATION: $125k → 7%ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE: $100k → 7%ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE: $100k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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WY
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MD
TN
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.3M · 28 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 28 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
16

Total granted

$6.3M
$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

54%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • Portland Museum of Art
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3.1M · revenue +7%
  • TN
    THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $300k · revenue +139%
  • AR
    ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CBP FOUNDATION IRR CHAR TR
    one grant, 2020 · $3.5M
  • M
    MaineHealthgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +64%
  • THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

2
Maine Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…

Arts & Culture
4
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
5
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
6
Penobscot Marine Museum

Penobscot marine museum inspires curiosity and fosters understanding about life and work on the maine coast to encourage stewardship of our communities and the sea.

Arts & Culture
7
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
8
Friends of the Maine State Museum Inc

To preserve Maine's heritage through programs, publications, and events that promote, advocate, and build support for the Maine State Museum.

Arts & Culture
9
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
10
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
11
Portland Museum Inc

Portland museum is an innovative and compelling neighborhood museum. the museum boldly weaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge and illuminate our neighbors, visitors, and participants…

12
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Usm Osher Map Library Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Public Library SupportFood Pantries & AssistanceAnimal Rescue and AdoptionClassical Music EnsemblesCancer Support OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 53 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr18%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr19%6%20–35yr16%62%35–55yr18%32%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
9%
845/9,522

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.

04the grantee network

28 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CBP FOUNDATION IRR CHAR TR — $3,500,000 · OtherTHE CBP FOUNDATION IRR CHAR TRTHE CPB FOUNDATION IRREVOCABLE TRUST — $750,000 · OtherTHE CPB FOUNDATION IRREVOCABLE TRUSTDUCKS UNLIMITED — $573,250 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITEDTHE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · Other+19 more — $1,069,500 · Other+19 morePortland Museum of Art — $3,070,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of ArtPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY — $414,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND STAGE COMPANYPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $170,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Maritime Museum — $155,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $85,000 · Arts & CultureMaineHealth — $1,000,000 · HealthMaineHealthMaine Cancer Foundation — $270,000 · HealthMaine Cancer …LifeFlight Foundation — $100,000 · HealthLifeFlight Fo…Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital — $75,000 · HealthANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $200,000 · AnimalsCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $110,750 · Animals+1 more — $10,000 · AnimalsWING & BARREL FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank — $2,000 · Food & NutritionGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · EducationNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,800 · EducationSCARBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY — $8,500 · EducationPINE TREE SOCIETY INC — $2,000 · EducationWorld Affairs Council of Maine — $30,000 · InternationalPROJECT GRACE — $5,000 · International
Other$6,192,750Arts & Culture$3,894,000Health$1,445,000Animals$320,750Food & Nutrition$47,000Education$46,300International$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPortland Museum of Art — $3,070,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMaineHealth — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY — $414,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMaine Cancer Foundation — $270,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC — $200,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $170,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMaine Maritime Museum — $155,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $110,750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation — $100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND OVATIONS — $60,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWING & BARREL FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetUSM OSHER MAP LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC — $32,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATES OF THE OSHER MAP LIBRARY — $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Maine — $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCARBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY — $8,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFarm to Table Kids Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable FoundationME23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830 · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Libra Foundation · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · Murray Charitable Trust · Sam L Cohen 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 Cbp Foundation 4357-04-79 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.

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no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Cbp Foundation 4357-04-79?

    Find your warmest path to Cbp Foundation 4357-04-79 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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