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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of DOROTHY G & STANLEY E WORDEN CHARITABLE 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LINCOLN HOME | $28,000 |
| WISCASSET COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| EAST-WEST | $10,000 |
| ELDERCARED NETWORK LINCOLN COUNTY | $6,000 |
| TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEALTHY KIDS | $5,000 |
| DAMARISCOTTA BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,200 |
| ALMOST HOME RESCUE | $2,000 |
| JUNIPER WILDLIFE REFUGE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE BYRE CLAN 4H | $1,000 |
| DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION | $150 |
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.
Your 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- SSSTEPPING STONE HOUSING INC5× · 2017–2022 · $96k · revenue +374%
- CKCOASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +82%
- TLThe Lincoln Home2× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CBCOLLEGE BAPTIST CHURCH HILLSDALEone grant, 2024 · $50k
- ENELDERCARE NETWORKone grant, 2020 · $25k
- JFJONI & FRIENDS NEW ENGLANDone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
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.
To provide quality educational services to students in grades kindergarten through twelve, in a Christ-centered environment.
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…
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…
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.
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.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Life Family Services and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 55 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 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 TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNHEALTH ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds DAMARISCOTTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- 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 NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
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: 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
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 Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% 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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