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Curtis & Patricia Blake Foundation at a glance

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Curtis & Patricia Blake Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$35k
Granted FY2018
7
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Health$60kEnvironment$10kHuman Services$2kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$2kEducation$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1k
02FY2018 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k5 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$462k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TREASURE COAST HOSPICE FOUNDATION$20,000
MGH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR PSYCHIATRY$10,000
HARTFORD HOSPITAL$1,000
MOUNT DESERT LAND & GARDEN PRESERVE$1,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$1,000
HISTORIC DEERFIELD$1,000
FRIENDS OF ACADIA$1,000
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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HISTORIC DEERFIELD: $1k → 14%MGH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR PSYCHIATRY: $10k → 16%HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $5k → 9%HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $1k → 11%HISTORIC DEERFIELD: $1k → 14%MGH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR PSYCHIATRY: $10k → 16%JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $1k → 10%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $1k → 9%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $3k → 11%COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $2k → 11%FRIENDS OF ACADIA: $1k → 11%MAINE SEA COAST MISSION: $1k → 11%MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%TOWN OF SOUTHWEST HARBOR CONSERVATION COMMISSION: $1k → 11%THE NORTHEAST HARBOR AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $1k → 11%MOUNT DESERT LAND & GARDEN PRESERVE: $1k → 11%MOUNT DESERT LAND & GARDEN PRESERVE: $1k → 11%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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32k · 5 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +106% since the first grant, against +77% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$32k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+106%
+77%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +106%
  • HD
    HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +54%
  • HH
    Hartford Hospital
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • MH
    MARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • MD
    MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +58%
  • COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTICgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +45%
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
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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2
Waldo County General Hospital

Waldo County General Hospital's mission is to be the BEST - Better, Empathy, Service and Teamwork. Our goal is to ensure quality, accessible and affordable health care services and to improve the health and well-being of our community.

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3
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
4
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
5
Maine Medical Association

To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.

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6
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
7
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.

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8
Windsor Hospital Corporation

Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.

Health
9
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
10
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
11
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
12
Southern Maine Health Care

Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Desert Island Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MGH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR PSYCHIATRY: $20,000 · OtherMGH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR PSYCHIATRYTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF MARTIN & ST LUCIE INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF MARTIN & ST LUCIE INCMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATIONMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $2,000 · Other+5 more: $5,700 · Other+5 moreMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coas…Friends of Acadia: $1,000 · EnvironmentFriends of…MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $3,000 · HealthMOUNT DESE…Hartford Hospital: $2,000 · HealthHartford H…JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $1,000 · HealthJUPITER IS…MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC: $1,000 · HealthMOUNT DESE…HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentNortheast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$59,700Environment$7,000Health$7,000Arts & Culture$2,000Youth Development$2,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF MARTIN & ST LUCIE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Hospital: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNortheast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Ethel D Colket Founda…Colket Family Foundat…The Bessemer Giving F…S&G Foundation IncE Newbold & Margaret …Fore River FoundationCornelia Cogswell Ros…Florence V Burden Fou…The Widgeon Point Cha…Maine Community Found…The Chicago Community…Susanna Porter & Jame…
Ethel D Colket FoundationPA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · S&G Foundation Inc · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) · Fore River Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Florence V Burden Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Susanna Porter & James Clark Giving Fund

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 Curtis & Patricia Blake Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curtis & Patricia Blake Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Historic Deerfield Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Curtis & Patricia Blake Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Curtis & Patricia Blake Foundation 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 19 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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