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Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCAULEY RESIDENCE NORTHERN LIGHT MERCY HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| MCAULEY RESIDENCE NORTHERN LIGHT MERCY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| THE MITCHELL INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| ST BRIGID SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| HOULTON REC CENTER | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $5,000 |
| ST MARY OF THE VISITION PARISH FATHER KEVIN MARTIN | $5,000 |
| ST MARY OF THE VISITION PARISH | $5,000 |
| THE TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- SGSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute7× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +62%
- CCCatholic Charities Maine8× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +5%
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +341%
Funded once
- NLNORTHERN LIGHT MERCY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k
- MIMITCHELL INSTITUTE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $20k
- MHMERCY HOSPTIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $17k
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.
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…
Role models (bigs) in one-to-one friendships in seven counties throughout Eastern, Coastal, and Central Maine. They partner with parents, in conjunction with over 30 schools and hundreds of volunteers and generous partners in our community…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…
The ASF mission is to provide incentive scholarship grants to Maine children for their higher education and to support Maine's children's aspirations and access to, and preparation for, higher education.
The Maine Children's Trust is a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent abuse and neglect by organizing a strong unified voice that abuse is preventable and to facilitate collaboration to accomplish this goal.
The Autism Society of Maine provides education and resources to support the valued lives of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
Our Mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maines forest community
Waypoint Maine provides a comprehensive array of programs that each year provides essential services and support to over 1,000 children and adults with special needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine and the most unlike its peers is Aid for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 30 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 Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREE STREET YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds AID FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
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 · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Pond Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Texas Instruments 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 Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable 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 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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