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Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable 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.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$193kReligion$130kEducation$114kHousing & Shelter$96kPublic Benefit$62kHealth$37kArts & Culture$36kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LINCOLN HOME$28,000
WISCASSET COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
EAST-WEST$10,000
ELDERCARED NETWORK LINCOLN COUNTY$6,000
HEALTHY KIDS$5,000
TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION$5,000
DAMARISCOTTA BAPTIST CHURCH$3,200
ALMOST HOME RESCUE$2,000
THE BYRE CLAN 4H$1,000
JUNIPER WILDLIFE REFUGE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION$150
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $10k → 14%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 9%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $150 → 7%THE LINCOLN HOME: $28k → 9%THE LINCOLN HOME: $10k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $20k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $10k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $10k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $10k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $10k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
VA
TX
FL
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$448k · 18 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
32

Total granted

$448k
$246k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+28%

Still filing today

33%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
Human ServicesReligionArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SS
    STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $96k · revenue +374%
  • CK
    COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +82%
  • TL
    The Lincoln Home
    2× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CB
    COLLEGE BAPTIST CHURCH HILLSDALE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • EN
    ELDERCARE NETWORK
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • JF
    JONI & FRIENDS NEW ENGLAND
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
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
LincolnHealth Group

LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.

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2
Arborbrook Christian Academy

Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.

Education
3
Liberty Christian School Inc

To provide quality educational services to students in grades kindergarten through twelve, in a Christ-centered environment.

Education
4
Concord Christian Academy

Concord Christian Academy is a life preparatory educational institution that works in harmony with families to promote the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and creative growth of students, empowering them to live for the glory…

Education
5
Crossroads Academy

Crossroads Academy is an independent coeducational day school focused on teaching the "Core Knowledge and "Core Virtues" curricula. Crossroads Academy is committed to academic excellence and moral integrity, and seeks to inspire students…

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6
Landmark Christian School

Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.

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7
Watertown Lutheran Senior Housing Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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8
National Church Residences At Home Hospice

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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9
National Church Residences At Home Health and Wellness Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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10
National Church Residences At Home Hospice Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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11
National Church Residences At Home Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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12
Liberty Classical Academy

Liberty classical academy is an independent private school offering college-preparatory academics and christian faith in the classical tradition for minneapolis-st. paul students in preschool and kindergarten through the 12th grade.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Life Family Services; the most unlike its peers is Damariscotta Historical Society. 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

22 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. 22 of the 55 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF DAMARISCOTTA: $61,575 · OtherTOWN OF DAMARISCOTTAIndividual grant recipient: $58,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLLEGE BAPTIST CHURCH HILLSDALE: $50,000 · OtherCOLLEGE BAPTIST CHURCH HILLSDALEHEALTHY KIDS: $26,000 · OtherHEALTHY KIDSELDERCARE NETWORK: $25,000 · OtherELDERCARE NETWORKWISCASSET COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 · OtherWISCASSET COMMUNITY CENTERJONI & FRIENDS NEW ENGLAND: $20,000 · OtherBETHLEHEM COLLEGE: $18,966 · Other+32 more: $148,583 · Other+32 moreCOASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $65,000 · Human ServicesCOASTAL KIDS PRESCH…The Lincoln Home: $38,000 · Human ServicesThe Lincoln HomeBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10,000 · Human ServicesBATH AREA FAMILY YM…TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $10,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER FOR GOOD+1 more: $650 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONE HOUSING INC: $96,000 · Housing & ShelterSTEPPING STONE…InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $16,414 · ReligionEast-West Ministries International: $15,000 · ReligionStraight Ahead Ministries INC: $2,500 · ReligionDAMARISCOTTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMARS HILL AUDIO INC: $6,357 · Arts & CultureSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public BenefitLINCOLN ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$433,124Human Services$123,650Housing & Shelter$96,000Religion$33,914Arts & Culture$21,357Public Benefit$10,000Education$10,000

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 budgetSTEPPING STONE HOUSING INC: $96,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCOASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $65,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetThe Lincoln Home: $38,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $16,414 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLNHEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER FOR GOOD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARS HILL AUDIO INC: $6,357 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALMOST HOME RESCUE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLINCOLN ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $650 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Lincoln Home ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
  • Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds DAMARISCOTTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLNHEALTH ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MARS HILL AUDIO INC ↗
  • Who funds ALMOST HOME RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗

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 Marjorie C Bailey…The Ruth J Jones Char…Maine Community Found…Reny Charitable Found…Edward L & Ruth J Jon…The Audrey P Connor C…Burns Family Foundati…First Federal Savings…Leach Elizabeth Ann P…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…
The Marjorie C Bailey Charitable FoundationME30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Marjorie C Bailey Charitable Foundation · The Ruth J Jones Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Reny Charitable Foundation · Edward L & Ruth J Jones Charitable Foundation · The Audrey P Connor Charitable Foundation · Burns Family Foundation Inc · First Federal Savings and Loan Assn of Bath Charitable Foundation · Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Straight Ahead Ministries Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable 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 55 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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