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Elmina B Sewall Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
296
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$580k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$12MCommunity Improvement$9.7MAnimals$7.5MHealth$5.3MFood & Nutrition$4.8MArts & Culture$4.1MHuman Services$4.1MEducation$4.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 296 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k173 grants · $4.0M
  • $50k–250k101 grants · $8.9M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$31,950
Median grant
14
States reached
$165M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sunrise County Economic Council$580,000
Maine Environmental Education Association$267,000
United Somali Women of Maine$261,200
Maine Audubon$260,000
New Learning Journey$225,000
Center for An Ecology-Based Economy$200,000
Outdoor Sports Institute Inc$200,000
Maine Development Foundation$185,000
Cooperative Development Institute$185,000
Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point$180,000
Our Katahdin$175,000
Sunrise Opportunities$172,500
Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services$172,500
Maine Initiatives Inc$157,100
Four Directions Development Corporation$150,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services: $173k → 13%Downeast Community Partners Inc: $95k → 11%Somali Bantu Community Lewiston of Maine: $108k → 13%Downeast Community Partners Inc: $93k → 11%Downeast Community Partners Inc: $85k → 11%Downeast Community Partners Inc: $85k → 11%Downeast Community Partners Inc: $85k → 11%Somali Bantu Community Lewiston of Maine: $70k → 13%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $48k → 15%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $40k → 15%Somali Bantu Community Lewiston of Maine: $50k → 13%Somali Bantu Community Lewiston of Maine: $45k → 13%Somali Bantu Community Lewiston of Maine: $43k → 13%Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services: $40k → 13%Her Safety Net: $40k → 13%Mission Working Dogs: $60k → 13%Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services: $30k → 13%New Beginnings Inc: $30k → 13%Center for Regional Prosperity: $40k → 7%Center for Regional Prosperity: $40k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $130k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $55k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $30k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $30k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $30k → 7%Young Men's Christian Association Auburn-Lewiston Maine: $40k → 13%Western Maine Transportation Services Inc (WMTS): $40k → 13%Young Mens Christian Association Auburn-Lewiston Maine: $30k → 13%Preble Street: $130k → 7%Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition: $125k → 7%Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition: $120k → 7%Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition: $105k → 7%Preble Street: $100k → 7%Presente Maine: $75k → 7%Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition: $69k → 7%Preble Street: $65k → 7%Presente Maine: $60k → 7%Presente Maine: $60k → 7%Preble Street: $40k → 7%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $40k → 7%Preble Street: $40k → 7%Gateway Community Services Maine: $38k → 7%Gateway Community Services Maine: $35k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $60k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $55k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $53k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $50k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $40k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$58M · 342 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

342 repeat relationships — 258 still active in FY2024, 84 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

342
95

Total granted

$58M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+15%

Still filing today

88%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $517k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +57%
  • MA
    Maine Audubon Society
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +3%
  • OK
    Our Katahdin
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +257%

Funded once

  • NT
    NATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +15%
  • CA
    CENTRAL AROOSTOOK HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +48% · 94% of their budget
  • PH
    PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $173k · revenue -91% · 36% of their budget

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.

1
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
2
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
3
Maine GearShare

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

Recreation & Sports
4
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative

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…

Animals
5
Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

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6
Maine Rivers

Maine Rivers is a statewide advocacy organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine's river systems. We support and direct efforts to conserve and improve the health of Maine's rivers and…

Environment
7
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
8
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
9
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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10
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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11
30 Mile River Watershed Association

The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…

Environment
12
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Nomadic and Pastoralist Development. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Shelter and RescuePerforming Arts Organizatio…Maine Statewide Advocacy Or…Family Philanthropic Founda…Public LibrariesFood Assistance & Emergency…Maine Educational Foundatio…Sexual Violence & Abuse Ser…Independent Schools MaineRural Maine Community Organ…Business & Industry Associa…Disability Support ServicesLow-Income Residential Hous…Youth Development CentersResidential Treatment & Rec…Regional Land ConservationRegional Healthcare SystemsSenior Housing & ServicesMaine Community Institutions
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%7%<5yr12%15%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr18%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%4%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr18%20%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%8/434
the rest of the field
9%
744/7,943

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.

04the grantee network

406 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. 406 of the 475 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.

37
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
135
Early backer (in before they grew)
395/406
Grantees still filing
294/406
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $906,800 · OtherUnited Somali Women of Maine — $812,200 · OtherPassamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point — $655,000 · OtherMAINE INITIATIVESINC — $767,100 · Other+74 more — $15,409,283 · Other+74 moreSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL — $2,324,400 · Community ImprovementSUNRISE COUNTY EC…Our Katahdin — $1,217,500 · Community ImprovementOur KatahdinCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $962,200 · Community ImprovementCOOPERATIVE DEVEL…Maine Development Foundation — $730,000 · Community ImprovementMaine Development…MAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION — $455,125 · Community ImprovementMAINE COMMUNITY I…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $313,600 · Community ImprovementLEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $290,000 · Community ImprovementLAND IN COMMON INC — $288,500 · Community Improvement+10 more — $1,583,000 · Community Improvement+10 moreMaine Audubon Society — $1,310,000 · EnvironmentMaine Audubon Soc…NEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC — $728,000 · EnvironmentNEW LEARNING JOUR…Chewonki Foundation Inc — $610,000 · EnvironmentChewonki Foundati…CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY — $493,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR AN ECO…Maine Coast Heritage Trust — $413,000 · EnvironmentMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $312,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $305,000 · EnvironmentBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc — $283,825 · EnvironmentMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN — $280,000 · Environment+23 more — $3,351,402 · Environment+23 moreKENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY — $536,000 · AnimalsKENNEBEC VALL…Bangor Humane Society — $430,000 · AnimalsBangor Humane…Paws Brave Hearts — $352,500 · AnimalsPaws Brave He…MIDCOAST HUMANE — $330,000 · AnimalsHALFWAY HOME PET RESCUE INC — $329,500 · AnimalsMarians Dream Philanthropy for Animal A — $314,784 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $305,000 · AnimalsDOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC — $300,000 · AnimalsGREATER ANDROSCOGGIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $296,926 · AnimalsThe Ark Pope Memorial Animal Shelter — $270,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY WATERVILLE AREA — $266,000 · AnimalsPOPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY OF KNOX CO — $255,000 · AnimalsANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $238,000 · AnimalsMAINE HUMANE — $225,000 · Animals+14 more — $2,012,000 · Animals+14 moreSunrise Opportunities — $802,500 · HealthSunrise O…WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC — $711,257 · HealthWABANAKI …Millinocket Regional Hospital — $685,000 · HealthMillinock…OUTDOOR SPORT INSTITUTE INC — $640,000 · HealthOUTDOOR S…St Mary's Regional Medical Center — $506,000 · HealthSt Mary's…MaineHealth — $275,000 · HealthMaineHeal…HEALTHY ACADIA — $255,000 · HealthHEALTHY A…NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE — $216,500 · HealthSt Mary's Health System — $172,500 · Health+3 more — $282,200 · Health+3 moreHand in Hand Mano en Mano — $580,356 · EducationRural Aspirations Project — $500,000 · EducationMILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $500,000 · EducationMAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN — $325,000 · EducationNorthern Forest Center Inc — $260,000 · EducationMaine Mathematics & Science Alliance — $250,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $220,000 · EducationIsland Institute — $220,000 · EducationMAINE STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $205,000 · EducationMaine Philanthropy Center — $196,860 · EducationPINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationKatahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation — $150,000 · Education+4 more — $425,000 · EducationMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $448,500 · Human ServicesDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $443,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET — $375,000 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES — $340,000 · Human ServicesSomali Bantu Community Association of Maine — $315,000 · Human ServicesPROSPERITYME — $283,500 · Human ServicesHospice of Southern Maine — $275,000 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity Alliance — $257,000 · Human ServicesPresente Maine — $195,383 · Human ServicesMission Working Dogs — $160,000 · Human ServicesEastern Area Agency on Aging — $154,000 · Human ServicesYWCA Central Maine — $128,000 · Human Services+4 more — $427,500 · Human Services
Other$18,550,383Community Improvement$8,164,325Environment$8,086,727Animals$6,460,710Health$4,545,957Education$3,982,216Human Services$3,801,883

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL — $2,324,400 over 5y, 19% of budgetMaine Audubon Society — $1,310,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetOur Katahdin — $1,217,500 over 5y, 20% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $962,200 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetMAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $906,800 over 5y, 34% of budgetSunrise Opportunities — $802,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC — $767,100 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetMaine Development Foundation — $730,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC — $728,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC — $711,257 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetMillinocket Regional Hospital — $685,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOUTDOOR SPORT INSTITUTE INC — $640,000 over 4y, 59% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc — $610,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust — $587,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano — $580,356 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetFour Directions Development Corporation — $579,750 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY — $536,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetSt Mary's Regional Medical Center — $506,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRural Aspirations Project — $500,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetMILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $500,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetCENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY — $493,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetMAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION — $455,125 over 5y, 71% of budgetResources for Organizing and Social Change — $450,000 over 5y, 51% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $448,500 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $443,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBangor Humane Society — $430,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $413,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $392,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $388,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $375,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPaws Brave Hearts — $352,500 over 3y, 64% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $345,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES — $340,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetMIDCOAST HUMANE — $330,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetHALFWAY HOME PET RESCUE INC — $329,500 over 5y, 51% of budgetMAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN — $325,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetSomali Bantu Community Association of Maine — $315,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetMarians Dream Philanthropy for Animal A — $314,784 over 5y, 62% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $313,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $312,500 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetCumberland County Food Security Council — $310,250 over 5y, 20% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $305,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $305,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetMALISEET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY — $300,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetDOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC — $300,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetGREATER ANDROSCOGGIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $296,926 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetLEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $290,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetMaine Federation of Farmers Markets — $290,000 over 3y, 11% of budget
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 SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
  • Who funds Our Katahdin ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Sunrise Opportunities ↗
  • Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Development Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC ↗
  • Who funds WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC ↗
  • Who funds Millinocket Regional Hospital ↗
  • Who funds OUTDOOR SPORT INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
  • Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
  • Who funds Four Directions Development Corporation ↗
  • Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds St Mary's Regional Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Rural Aspirations Project ↗
  • Who funds MILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds MAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION ↗
  • Who funds Resources for Organizing and Social Change ↗
  • Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Bangor Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
  • Who funds Paws Brave Hearts ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MIDCOAST HUMANE ↗
  • Who funds HALFWAY HOME PET RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine ↗

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 Found…Onion FoundationJohn T Gorman Foundat…Maine Health Access F…Bangor Savings Bank F…Sam L Cohen FoundationQuimby Family Foundat…Fisher Charitable Fou…Good Shepherd Food Ba…Maine InitiativesincStephen & Tabitha Kin…Simmons Foundation - …
Maine Community Foundation IncME244.9× affinity320 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Maine Initiativesinc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson

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 Elmina B Sewall 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Cooperative Development Institute Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Third Sector Capital Partners Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Sponsor Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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: 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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How do I get to Elmina B Sewall Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Elmina B Sewall Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 475 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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