· Private foundation
Edgar & Pauline Main Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of EDGAR & PAULINE MAIN FAMILY 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 $10k6 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $24,000 |
| PLYMOUTH GUILD INC | $11,000 |
| PILGRIM SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH PARISH FOOD PANTRY | $6,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC | $2,000 |
| PLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,000 |
| JAURON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| TALKING INFORMATION CENTER INC | $500 |
| BLACK FEATHER RESCUE INC | $500 |
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 (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- PPPLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $140k · revenue +41%
- PGPLYMOUTH GUILD INC6× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +12%
- TPThe Pilgrim Society6× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +78%
Funded once
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%- CCCHRIST CHURCH PARISHone grant, 2024 · $2k
- PAProject Arts of Plymouth Incone grant, 2022 · $1k · 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.
Ambulance and emergency medical services
To provide lower income housing
Healing takes place when people are shown the care, love and respect they deserve. phc provides companionship, housing, and circles of support for people who live with mental illness and housing instability.
To provide non-profit housing rentals to low and moderate income families and families displaced from urban renewal areas.
The Plymouth Antiquarian Society is a non-profit educational institution that collects, preserves, and interprets historic houses and artifacts. The Society uses these resources to tell the story of everyday life in Plymouth and New…
To enliven the spirit of the community and to enrich the lives of all by providing diverse experiences in the arts.
Enhanced library services
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The BPO was formed in 1979 to provide opportunities for an evolving community of amateur student and professional players to perform together present challenging classical repertoire & enhance the publics awareness & understanding of this…
To support the mission of the rotary club of plymouth and the related club committees.
To furnish emergency medical services, and transportation to hospitals, to residents of the borough of plymouth on a volunteer basis
Plymouth harbor is a church-sponsored not-for-profit community of distinction for older adults committed to providing the most positive aging experience possible for its residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Feather Rescue 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 22 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 PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds The Pilgrim Society ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH TASKFORCE TO END HOMELESSNESS I ↗
- Who funds TALKING INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Black Feather Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds HEIDREA FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Project Arts of Plymouth Inc ↗
- Who funds JORDAN HOSPITAL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Edgar & Pauline Main Family 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.
- Talking Information Center Inc — 71% of income from government
- Crystal Springs Inc — 57% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Plymouth Guild Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Pilgrim Society — 1% 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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