· Private foundation
Charlotte's Web
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLASTIC POLLUTION COALITION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PLEIADES NETWORK | $10,000 |
| BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST | $10,000 |
| HEALTHY ACADIA | $10,000 |
| THE MARINE STUDIES CONSORTIUM | $10,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $10,000 |
| PLEIADES NETWORK | $10,000 |
| EO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KOLLEGEWIDGWOK SAILING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| UNMANAGEABLE | $10,000 |
| HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULTPTURE GARDEN | $5,000 |
| NATIVE GARDENS OF BLUE HILL | $5,000 |
| BLUE HILL FIRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| BLUE HILL LIBRARY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
Earth Island Institute Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $220k · revenue +78%- OPOO PROJECT3× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +241%
- PNPLEIADES NETWORK INC3× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- GEGIRLS EDUCATION INITIATIVE OF GHANA US Incone grant, 2022 · $60k
- TGTHE GIRLS EDUCATION INITIATIVE AT JPMORGAN CHASEone grant, 2019 · $45k
- WLWORLD LEARNINGone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions
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…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Oceans Initiative is a team of scientists on a mission to protect marine life and the ecosystems on which they depend, and to share our innovative science to guide conservation action.
Global fishing watch advances ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea. by creating and publicly sharing map visualizations, data and analysis tools, we enable scientific research and drive a transformation…
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
Blue Frontier Campaign works to promote unity, provide tools and raise awareness of the solution oriented marine conservation community.
The Ocean Genome Atlas Project OGAP aims to collect, classify, sequence and map the genomic information of organisms representing at least 80 of the extant marine species worldwide. Deploying a fleet of advanced but cost effective research…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Hill Heritage Trust and the most unlike its peers is Girls Education Initiative of Ghana Us 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
24 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. 24 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.
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 Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds OO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PLEIADES NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMER INC ↗
- Who funds EO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE STUDIES CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNMANAGEABLE ↗
- Who funds KOLLEGEWIDGWOK SAILING AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ACADIA ↗
- Who funds WORLD OCEAN OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · Laurence B Flood Foundation Inc · Lawrence Family Foundation · Prior Family Foundation · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Charlotte's Web 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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