· Private foundation
Cianbro Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $298k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bangor Region YMCA | $250,000 |
| Maine Central Institute | $175,000 |
| The Cianbro Companies Scholarship | $73,000 |
| The Lifeflight Foundation | $50,000 |
| The Travis Mills Foundation | $15,000 |
| Friends Of The Library | $13,420 |
| Katahdin Area Boy Scouts BSA | $12,500 |
| Associated Builders & Contractors Inc | $10,000 |
| Educate Maine | $10,000 |
| Forest Society Of Maine | $5,000 |
| Our Katahdin | $3,700 |
| Curesearch For Children's Cancer | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $253k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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
- MCMaine Central Institute5× · 2020–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +8% · 49% of their budget
- OKOur Katahdin4× · 2022–2025 · $190k · revenue +223%
- PDPittsfield Development Corporation3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue ×22 · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- NLNorthern Light Healthone grant, 2024 · $161k
- MMMAINE MARITIME ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $100k
- HOHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +44%
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 Institute, through a public and private partnership, shall encourage, promote, stimulate and support research and development activity leading to the commercialization of new products and services in Maine's technology-intensive…
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…
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
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.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
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…
Support and promote the University of Maine Graduate & Professional Center ("Maine Center") of the University of Maine System through fundraising, marketing, and engagement with Maine enterprises and employers to identify and address…
The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy and the most unlike its peers is Maine State Troopers 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.
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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 41 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 Maine Central Institute ↗
- Who funds BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Our Katahdin ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pittsfield Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Educate Maine ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 0218 PINE TREE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Society of Maine ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MOOSEHEAD MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES ↗
- Who funds THE ENGINEERING CENTER EDUCATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Bangor Historical Society ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY ECONOMIC COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER ↗
- Who funds MAINE STATE TROOPERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Appalachian Trail Club ↗
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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · The Mimi Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Td Charitable 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 Cianbro 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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