· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of CURTIS & PATRICIA BLAKE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k5 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREASURE COAST HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MGH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR PSYCHIATRY | $10,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC DEERFIELD | $1,000 |
| HARTFORD HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| MOUNT DESERT LAND & GARDEN PRESERVE | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your 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 +92% since the first grant, against +77% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
Maine Coast Heritage Trust2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +106%- HDHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +54%
- HHHartford Hospital2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- MHMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $12k
- MDMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +58%
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTICgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +45%
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.
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…
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.
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.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
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.
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.
Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Desert Island Hospital and 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.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF MARTIN & ST LUCIE INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
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: 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
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 Curtis & Patricia Blake 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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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