· Private foundation
Charles L Read Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k75 grants · $172k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUST AND AGENCY FUND HANCOCK CENTRAL SCHOOL | $24,000 |
| LOUISA ADELIA READ MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| MANCOS CREATIVE DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF MADISON | $5,000 |
| HANCOCK PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER KENT COUNTY | $4,000 |
| MANCOS VALLEY RESOURCES | $4,000 |
| UNIV OF VA LAW FDN | $4,000 |
| BRECKENRIDGE THANKSGIVING HOCKEY NITE | $4,000 |
| MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOC | $4,000 |
| WELCOME DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
| THE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION | $4,000 |
| MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS | $4,000 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- SSSOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +54%
- HPHANCOCK PARTNERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +43%
Maine Island Trail Association5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $3k
- BSBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +43%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
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 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.
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.
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…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
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…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 126 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 SOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds PHIPPSBURG LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammals of Maine ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mancos Creative District Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds Americas Grow-A-Row ↗
- Who funds THE HANCOCK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mancos Valley Resources ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Mid Coast Hospital ↗
- Who funds GO Public Schools ↗
- Who funds SPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEGUIN ISLAND LIGHT STATION ↗
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: Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation · Libra Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc
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 Charles L Read 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.
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Rebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc — 12% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Cheshire Home Inc — 6% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj — 1% of income from government
- Drew University — 0% of income from government
- Chatham Emergency Squad Inc — 0% 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.
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