· Private foundation
Elliotsville Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $50,000 |
| MOMENTUM CONSERVATION | $10,000 |
| MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN MAINE CONSERVATON COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN FOREST CENTER | $10,000 |
| USM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KATAHDIN WOODS & WATERS | $5,000 |
| WABANAKI PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS | $2,500 |
| MAINE LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| BOB FELLER ACT OF VALOR AWARD FOUNDATION | $500 |
| TRAILS END FESTIVAL | $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 (FY23–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +92% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- NFNorthern Forest Center Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +300%
- MCMOMENTUM CONSERVATION2× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +92%
- FOFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters4× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +934%
Funded once
- TTTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDSone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +46%
- 3M317 Main St Community Center Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -15%
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 Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…
The Forest Society of Maine conserves Maine forestlands to sustain their ecological, economic, cultural and recreational values.
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…
The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…
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…
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
Pleasant river wildlife foundation's mission is to protect scarce, high value wildlife habitat in coastal washington county on the downeast coast of maine. our highest priority is the protection of intertidal and freshwater wetlands and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc and the most unlike its peers is Protect Ancient Forests. 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 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 36 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 Northern Forest Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds 317 Main St Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Our Katahdin ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds Maine Equal Justice Partners ↗
- Who funds PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Portland Public Schools ↗
- Who funds WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC ↗
- Who funds Portland Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Maine Citizens for Clean Elections ↗
- Who funds Bob Feller Act of Valor Award Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Philanthropy Center ↗
- Who funds TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS ↗
- Who funds Maine Wildlife Conservation Council ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
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 · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Onion Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Horizon Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Roger K Berle Charitable Trust · Murray Charitable Trust · Libra Foundation · Quimby Family 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 Elliotsville Foundation Inc 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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