· Private foundation
Eleanor F Stich Recreational Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE | $511 |
| ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER | $511 |
| FRIENDS IN ACTION | $511 |
| HARBOR HOUSE | $511 |
| HEART OF ELLSWORTH | $511 |
| MAINE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES | $511 |
| ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST | $511 |
| HEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT | $511 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against -37% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eleanor F Stich Recreational Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eleanor F Stich Recreational Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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