How much did Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fund grant in FY2024?

Youth Development$153kHuman Services$119kPhilanthropy$63kArts & Culture$63kEducation$30kHealth$24kReligion$20kRecreation & Sports$20kEnvironment$16kOther$98k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

youngtheaterartscaregirls

2019

neighborhoodperformingconfidenceartsrecreationtheaterskills

2020

foodchildrensafe

2021

connectsfoodchildren youthlearningarts

2022

arts

2023

children

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $29k
$10k–50k6 grants · $60k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

Telling Room$10,000
The Center for Grieving Children$10,000
Portland Housing Services Corporation$10,000
Mayo Street Arts$10,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine$10,000
317 Main Street Community Music Center Inc$10,000
Maine Audubon Society$9,987
LearningWorks$7,000
Foundation for Portland Public Schools$6,500
Yellow Tulip Project$6,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$457k · 22 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$457k

$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+43%

Still filing today

100%

95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHealthOther

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

BA
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine
4× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +13%
OS
Olympia Snowe Womens Leadership Institute
5× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +23%
UW
United Way of Southern Maine
4× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +9%

Funded once

MA
Multilingual and Multicultural Center
one grant, 2017 · $13k
BA
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Mainegraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +41%
LO
League of Women Voters of Maine Education Fund Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +934%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Media College

Maine Media College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential.

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Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.

Human Services

Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation

Maine Public is Maine's premier, independent media resource serving the entirety of Maine, dedicated to creating exceptional opportunities for the communities it serves to engage with critical issues, compelling stories, and quality…

Arts & Culture

Maine Equal Justice Partners

Maine Equal Justice is a Nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity, and equity for people in Maine.

Crime & Legal

Maine Arts Academy

The Academy aims to transform students lives and contribute to the cultural capital of Maine by providing a high quality, comprehensive, college preparatory academic and arts education for high school students.

Education

Maine & Company

Economic development in Maine.

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Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate and ecological emergency. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate…

Environment

Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports

Maine Donor Alliance Fund

Maine Donor Alliance Fund and Maine Donor Alliance both work to build lasting progressive power through year-round investment in strategic infrastructure organizations in Maine. We use strategic philanthropy to advance the goals of our…

Education

Maine Jewish Film Festival

Present Jewish-themed and multicultural programming, films, conference and speakers to the public during festival week, at other various times, and virtually.

Arts & Culture

Ronald McDonald House Charities

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…

Health

Trustees of First Parish in Portland

To maintain and operate the First Parish Church in Portland, ME.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine and the most unlike its peers is Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/42

the rest of the field

194/2,236

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.

05the grantee network

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

37/41

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Development$152,700Human Services$119,000Philanthropy$62,500Arts & Culture$62,500Other$153,987Education$30,000Health$23,500

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.

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME76.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · United Way Inc · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting · Horizon Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Martin's Point Health Care Inc · The Mimi 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 organisation Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fund 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Our Place Portland Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 883309336 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Our Place Portland Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fund?

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Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fund?

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