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Edgard & Geraldine Feder Foundation
Its FY2022 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k39 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PICCOLA ACCADEMIA | $22,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PICCOLA ACCADEMIA | $15,000 |
| A PAW IN THE DOOR | $10,000 |
| A PAW IN THE DOOR | $10,000 |
| CAMP RUSK FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| MAINE FIBER ARTS | $5,000 |
| FALMOUTH CHAMBER PLAYERS ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| MAINE FIBER ARTS | $5,000 |
| A PAW IN THE DOOR | $5,000 |
| GENTLE BARN | $5,000 |
| MSSPA | $5,000 |
| MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| FALMOUTH CHAMBER PLAYERS ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| THE GOOD SHEPARD FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| BATH AREA FOOD BANK PA | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- MFMAINE FIBERARTS3× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +15%
- TGTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2022 · $13k · revenue +13%
- MPMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation2× · 2019–2022 · $11k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- YCYALE COLLECTION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTSone grant, 2019 · $12k
- HAHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +4%
- PFPATTEN FREE LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +36%
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.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Penobscot marine museum inspires curiosity and fosters understanding about life and work on the maine coast to encourage stewardship of our communities and the sea.
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…
At the children's museum & theatre of maine, we set the stage for every child to imagine and learn through play.
The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.
Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…
The museum's mission is to celebrate maine's role in american art. to accomplish that mission the museum provides an extensive offering of collections, exhibitions, education and retail services to the general public.
To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.
The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Handel and Haydn Society and the most unlike its peers is Camp Rusk Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 A PAW IN THE DOOR ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds MAINE FIBERARTS ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMP RUSK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds PATTEN FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Pets for Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds North Shore Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HESPERUS ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA 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: Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Edgard & Geraldine Feder 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.
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 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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