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Eaton Peabody Foundation at a glance

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Eaton Peabody Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$129k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$114kHealth$97kEducation$50kFood & Nutrition$35kHuman Services$21kArts & Culture$14kEnvironment$12kHousing & Shelter$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $93k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northern Light Health$20,000
campaign for justice$20,000
Mercy Hospital$12,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank$11,000
Telford Housing$10,000
Foxcroft Academy$10,000
Kathadin Woods and Waters$10,000
maine justice foundation$5,500
Penquis CAP$5,000
Midcoast hunger prevention$5,000
Husson University$5,000
Bangor Symphony Orchestra$3,000
Maine Historical Society$2,750
Catholic Charities of Maine$2,500
PCHC$2,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Bath Area Family YMCA: $4k → 9%Bath YMCA: $4k → 9%Penquis CAP: $5k → 15%Olympia Snowe Women Leadership Inst: $3k → 7%Catholic Charities of Maine: $3k → 7%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $1k → 15%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $1k → 15%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $1k → 15%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 12 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$252k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+50%

Still filing today

58%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    4× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +50%
  • FA
    FOXCROFT ACADEMY TRUSTEES OF
    4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • MJ
    MAINE JUSTICE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • HC
    Healthcare Charities
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • SJ
    St Joseph Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +50%
  • OS
    Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +31%
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
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
2
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…

—
3
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
4
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.

—
5
Community Health and Counseling Services

Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.

Health
6
MaineGeneral Health and Affiliates

MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.

—
7
Community Health and Nursing Services

Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.

Health
8
Maine Primary Care Association

Maine primary care association's mission is to champion and maximize the value of the statewide network of community health centers for the health and well-being of all maine people

Health
9
Bangor Theological Seminary
Religion
10
Southern Maine Health Care

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

—
11
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
12
Western Maine Health Care Corp

Ensured a high quality, accessible, affordable and appropriate integrated health care system to improve the health and well being of the community.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Maine; the most unlike its peers is Tedford Housing. 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

20 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. 20 of the 35 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

campaign for justice: $72,500 · Othercampaign for justiceNorthern Light Healthcare Charities: $35,300 · OtherNorthern Light Healthcare CharitiesUniversity of Maine School of Law: $25,000 · OtherUniversity of Maine School of LawNorthern Light Health: $20,000 · OtherNorthern Light HealthHealthcare Charities: $13,300 · OtherHealthcare CharitiesKathadin Woods and Waters: $10,000 · OtherTEDFORD HOUSING: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $25,515 · Other+13 moreFOXCROFT ACADEMY TRUSTEES OF: $25,000 · EducationFOXCROFT ACADE…Husson University: $20,000 · EducationHusson Univers…Good Shepherd Food Bank: $29,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shep…Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $12,000 · HealthSt Joseph Hospital: $7,500 · HealthOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $2,500 · HealthPenobscot Community Health Center: $2,000 · HealthBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $8,000 · Human ServicesPENQUIS CAP INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesEastern Area Agency on Aging: $3,000 · Human ServicesOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $2,600 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Maine: $2,500 · Human ServicesMAINE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $21,000 · Crime & LegalMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,250 · Arts & CultureBANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$211,615Education$45,000Food & Nutrition$29,000Health$24,000Human Services$21,100Crime & Legal$21,000Arts & Culture$10,250

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 budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOXCROFT ACADEMY TRUSTEES OF: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHusson University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEDFORD HOUSING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph Hospital: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPENQUIS CAP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEastern Area Agency on Aging: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $2,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Council on Aging: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPenobscot Community Health Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIX RIVERS YOUTH SPORTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBANGOR BEAUTIFUL INC: $500 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Maine Community Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Davis Family Foundati…Libra FoundationSimmons Foundation - …Maine Health Access F…Fisher Charitable Fou…Sam L Cohen FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…Martin's Point Health…Machias Savings Bank …
Maine Community Foundation IncME39.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Libra Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Martin's Point Health Care Inc · Machias Savings Bank Community Development 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 Eaton Peabody Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eaton Peabody Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Eaton Peabody Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Eaton Peabody 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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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