· Private foundation
Eleanor F Stich Recreational Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEART OF ELLSWORTH | $511 |
| MAINE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES | $511 |
| ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST | $511 |
| FRIENDS IN ACTION | $511 |
| ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE | $511 |
| ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER | $511 |
| HEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT | $511 |
| HARBOR HOUSE | $511 |
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +50% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $511 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
- IHISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC7× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +215%
- HHHarbor House Community Service Center9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +50%
- HIHEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- JMJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -37%
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.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Healthy peninsula mobilizes, supports and collaborates with community partners to improve the health of the towns of the blue hill peninsula, deer isle and stonington.
Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.
To provide an accessible space where chincoteague residents of all ages can gather for programs to fulfill their need for social, emotional, physical, and intellectural enrichment.
The ICC supports and nurtures our island community by fostering health, wellness, enrichment, and social interaction for all ages.
Operation of a residential care facility for the benefit of elderly residents of the islands of casco bay.
The organization's mission is to ensure the survival and long-term viability of chebeague island as a year-round community.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
Educating students and communities about the connections between the ocean, inland waters, and economy of maine.
The mission of the Maine Island Trail Association is to advance a model of thoughtful use and volunteer stewardship of Maine's wild islands, creating an inspiring recreational water trail that is cared for by the people who use it.
Island housing trust promotes viable, year-round island communities by advancing permanent workforce housing on mount desert island, maine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Heritage Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends in Action. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Harbor House Community Service Center ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds CAMP BEECH CLIFF ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ELLSWORTH ↗
- Who funds JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Edward C Johnson Fund · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Eleanor F Stich Recreational Trust 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.
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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