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Crabapple Cove Foundation at a glance

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Crabapple Cove 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.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$220kHealth$154kEducation$131kAnimals$52kEnvironment$47kHuman Services$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $26k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$756k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE HOUSE$100,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY-CARROLL GARDENS BRANCH$7,000
MIDCOAST HUMANE$5,000
HARPSWELL SANTA FUND$5,000
GIRLS SCOUTS OF GREATER NEW YORK$2,500
CUNDYS HARBOR LIBRARY$2,000
BERKELEY CARROLL ANNUAL FUND$1,500
HOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
HARPSWELL HERITAGE LAND TRUST$1,000
MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOCIATION$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $10k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $10k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $10k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $10k → 17%HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $5k → 7%HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $5k → 7%HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $5k → 7%HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $5k → 7%HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $5k → 7%HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $5k → 7%HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $5k → 7%HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $2k → 7%HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $1k → 7%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$676k · 21 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
3

Total granted

$676k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+41%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • HH
    HOPE HOUSE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +17%
  • HH
    HOPE HOUSE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $61k · revenue +70%
  • MH
    MIDCOAST HUMANE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +1%
  • BC
    BHMS - COVID TESTING INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +41%
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
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
2
Harpswell News

To publish a monthly newspaper covering topics of interest to the local Harpswell, ME community.

Arts & Culture
3
Keepers of the Burnt Island Light

To support and expand historical research,educational programs, community service and restoration work of the burnt island lighthouse owned by the state of maine.

Arts & Culture
4
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
5
Norwalk Harbor Keeper
—
6
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Harpswell Coastal Academy Inc

Hca is a public charter school offering rigorous, personalized, project- based education to maine students in grades 5-12.

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8
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust

We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.

—
9
Save the Harborsave the Bay Inc

Our mission is to restore and protect boston harbor, massachusetts bay and the marine environment and share them with the public for everyone to enjoy.

Environment
10
Maine Audubon Society

Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…

Environment
11
Harwich Ecumenical Council for the Homeless Inc

The organization's main mission is to develop compassionate solutions to homelessness problems for families especially those with children living in harwich and the surrounding communities of cape cod.

Human Services
12
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
17/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE HOUSE INC: $220,000 · OtherHOPE HOUSE INCBHMS ANNUAL FUND: $42,500 · OtherBHMS ANNUAL FUNDBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY-CARROLL GARDENS BRANCH: $42,000 · OtherBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY-CARROLL GARDENS BRANCHBHMS FUND: $30,000 · OtherBHMS FUNDTEAK: $25,000 · OtherTEAKFOLAS: $20,000 · Other+6 more: $26,500 · Other+6 moreTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FEL…HARPSWELL SANTA FUND INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesHARPSWELL SA…HOPE HOUSE INC: $61,000 · HealthHOPE HOUSE I…THE CUNDY'S HARBOR LIBRARY INC: $15,500 · HealthTHE CUNDY'S …MIDCOAST HUMANE: $45,000 · AnimalsTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $7,000 · AnimalsBROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $20,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $7,718 · EducationBRUNSWICK AREA STUDENT AID FUND: $6,000 · EducationHarpswell Heritage Land Trust: $27,200 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentMaine Island Trail Association: $2,500 · EnvironmentHOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$406,000Human Services$78,000Health$76,500Animals$52,000Education$48,718Environment$32,700Arts & Culture$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $220,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $61,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMIDCOAST HUMANE: $45,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHARPSWELL SANTA FUND INC: $38,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetHarpswell Heritage Land Trust: $27,200 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CUNDY'S HARBOR LIBRARY INC: $15,500 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetCUNDY'S HARBOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $8,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $7,718 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK AREA STUDENT AID FUND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOrr's & Bailey Islands Fire Department: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDCOAST HUMANE ↗
  • Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds HARPSWELL SANTA FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Harpswell Heritage Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE CUNDY'S HARBOR LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds HOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CUNDY'S HARBOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds BRUNSWICK AREA STUDENT AID FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
  • Who funds Orr's & Bailey Islands Fire Department ↗

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.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Crabapple Cove Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crabapple Cove Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 26 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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