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Clarence E Mulford Trust at a glance

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Clarence E Mulford Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$810k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$549k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.0MRecreation & Sports$600kPublic Benefit$169kPublic Safety & Disaster$127kReligion$112kHealth$100kEnvironment$88kHuman Services$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $549k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRYEBURG ACADEMY$548,511
FRYEBURG RECREATION DEPT INC$80,000
Individual grant recipient$43,500
EASTERN SLOPE AVIATION AUTHORITY$33,500
TOWN OF FRYEBURG MAINE$13,100
SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION$12,000
PINE GROVE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$10,500
SUNSHINE BACKPACK PROGRAM$10,000
WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$10,000
NORTH FRYEBURG RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$8,500
LOVELL AREA FOOD PANTRY$5,000
MT WASHINGTON VALLEY ADULT DAY CENTER$5,000
TIN MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM$4,500
FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION$4,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MT WASHINGTON VALLEY ADULT DAY CENTER: $15k → 9%DENMARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $10k → 13%FRYEBURG ACADEMY: $549k → 13%FRYEBURG ACADEMY: $539k → 13%FRYEBURG ACADEMY: $481k → 13%FRYEBURG ACADEMY: $470k → 13%FRYEBURG ACADEMY: $438k → 13%FRYEBURG ACADEMY: $360k → 13%EASTERN SLOPE AVIATION AUTHORITY: $92k → 13%WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $20k → 9%FRYEBURG RECREATION DEPT INC: $85k → 13%WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $20k → 9%FRYEBURG RECREATION DEPT INC: $85k → 13%WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $20k → 9%FRYEBURG RECREATION DEPT INC: $85k → 13%UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST: $20k → 9%FRYEBURG RECREATION DEPT INC: $80k → 13%WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 9%MAINE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT NO 72: $75k → 13%UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST: $10k → 9%TOWN OF FRYEBURG MAINE: $69k → 13%FRYEBURG RECREATION DEPT INC: $66k → 13%FRYEBURG RECREATION DEPT INC: $65k → 13%TOWN OF FRYEBURG MAINE: $59k → 13%TOWN OF FRYEBURG MAINE: $49k → 13%IZG AIRPORT AUTHORITY: $44k → 13%EASTERN SLOPE AVIATION ACADEMY: $43k → 13%EASTERN SLOPE AVIATION AUTHORITY: $34k → 13%FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $33k → 13%SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION: $28k → 13%TOWN OF FRYEBURG MAINE: $24k → 13%THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF FRYEBURG UCC: $24k → 13%FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION: $17k → 13%TOWN OF FRYEBURG MAINE: $13k → 13%SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION: $12k → 13%PINE GROVE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $11k → 13%FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%SUNSHINE BACKPACK PROGRAM: $10k → 13%FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION: $9k → 13%PINE GROVE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $9k → 13%NORTH FRYEBURG RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $9k → 13%SUNSHINE BACKPACK PROGRAM: $9k → 13%NORTH FRYEBURG RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $9k → 13%EASTERN SLOPE AVIATION AUTHORITY: $9k → 13%SUNSHINE BACKPACK PROGRAM: $9k → 13%BROWNFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT: $11k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 27 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
9

Total granted

$4.2M
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+5%

Still filing today

37%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FA
    Fryeburg Academy
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +79%
  • FR
    FRYEBURG RECREATION DEPARTMENT INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $465k · revenue +52% · 34% of their budget
  • WM
    White Mountain Community Health Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • MS
    MAINE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT NO 72
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • TF
    THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF FRYEBURG UCC
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
  • DC
    DENMARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
South Bristol Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Franklin Fire & Rescue Inc

Volunteer Fire & Rescue - Provide emergency fire and medical first response to the Town of Franklin, VT residents.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Farmington Public Library

Farmington public library purpose to promote reading enrichment and entertainment through education

Education
4
Somerville Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection services for the town of somerville and mutual aid communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Cornish Rescue Squad Incorporated

To provide emergency services to the towns of Cornish and Plainfield, NH

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6
Barnard Fire Department Inc

Volunteer Fire Department

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Tri-Village Fire Association Inc

Volunteer Fire Department covering the towns of Topsham and Orange Vermont

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8
Hopkinton Food Pantry & Charitable Services

To supply food and consumables to locals

—
9
Spaulding Memorial Library

The spaulding memorial library provides library related services to the local community. the library is supported primarily through annual contributions from the town of sebago along with donations and fundraising from individuals.

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10
Cape Area Volunteer Fire Department

Respond to calls for fire, search & rescue.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Waldo County Woodshed

providing firewood to heat homes for those who are in need

Human Services
12
Forest Society of Maine

The Forest Society of Maine conserves Maine forestlands to sustain their ecological, economic, cultural and recreational values.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fryeburg Rescue Association; the most unlike its peers is North Fryeburg Riverside Cemetery Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Fryeburg Academy: $2,835,375 · EducationFryeburg Academy+2 more: $4,250 · EducationTOWN OF FRYEBURG MAINE: $218,415 · OtherTOWN OF FRYEBURG MAINEEASTERN SLOPE AVIATION AUTHORITY: $134,000 · OtherEASTERN SLOPE AVIATION …MAINE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT NO 72: $75,000 · OtherMAINE SCHOOL ADMINISTRA…SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION: $65,047 · OtherSACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCI…EASTERN SLOPE AVIATION ACADEMY: $49,664 · OtherEASTERN SLOPE AVIATION …Individual grant recipient: $43,500 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $40,545 · Other+22 more: $271,254 · Other+22 moreFRYEBURG RECREATION DEPARTMENT INC: $465,000 · Recreation & SportsFRYEBURG RE…White Mountain Community Health Center: $83,000 · HealthPEQUAWKET VALLEY HEALTH INITIATIVES: $16,500 · HealthFRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION: $61,700 · Public Safety & DisasterUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST: $30,000 · Food & NutritionLovell Area Food Pantry Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH FRYEBURG RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $17,500 · Membership Benefit
Education$2,839,625Other$897,425Recreation & Sports$465,000Health$99,500Public Safety & Disaster$61,700Food & Nutrition$35,000Membership Benefit$17,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFryeburg Academy: $2,835,375 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFRYEBURG RECREATION DEPARTMENT INC: $465,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetWhite Mountain Community Health Center: $83,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION: $65,047 over 4y, 19% of budgetFRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION: $61,700 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH FRYEBURG RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $17,500 over 2y, 43% of budgetPEQUAWKET VALLEY HEALTH INITIATIVES: $16,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST OXFORD COUNTY NUTRITION INC: $14,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetNORTH FRYEBURG COMMUNITY CHAPEL: $9,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CONWAY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Fryeburg Academy ↗
  • Who funds FRYEBURG RECREATION DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds White Mountain Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds SACO VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds NORTH FRYEBURG RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PEQUAWKET VALLEY HEALTH INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST OXFORD COUNTY NUTRITION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH FRYEBURG COMMUNITY CHAPEL ↗
  • Who funds Lovell Area Food Pantry Inc ↗
  • Who funds SACO RIVER RECREATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CONWAY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE HOBBS MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Stephen & Tabitha Kin…The Robert and Doroth…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation IncNY19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clarence E Mulford Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clarence E Mulford Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Clarence E Mulford Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Clarence E Mulford Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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