· Private foundation
Evelyn S and K E Barrett Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $973k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Safe Passage | $150,000 |
| The Lunchbox Fund | $100,000 |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $100,000 |
| Pine Tree Society | $100,000 |
| Save the Children | $100,000 |
| The Global Fund for Children | $100,000 |
| Baby2Baby | $100,000 |
| World Vision | $100,000 |
| Unicef USA | $100,000 |
| Mercy Ships | $100,000 |
| Episcopal Relief and Development | $75,000 |
| Barbara Bush Children's Hospital | $75,000 |
| Maine Seacoast Mission | $50,000 |
| Flying Kites Inc | $50,000 |
| Covenant House | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $556k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 28% of Evelyn S and K E Barrett Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in ME; read by stated purpose it is 44% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +18% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 29 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $610k 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
- EREPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT6× · 2020–2025 · $174k · revenue +54%
- PTPINE TREE SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +85%
- TLTHE LUNCHBOX FUND4× · 2022–2025 · $138k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- WMWORD MADE FLESH INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -25%
- WCWORLD'S CHILDRENone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue -26%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
Yours Humanly (YH) transforms the lives of children in need around the world by providing access to quality education and equitable resources. Through its two flagship initiatives, Coloring Futures and Bridging Gaps, YH has completed 34…
Haiti Babi is a not for profit social enterprise that employs mothers in Haiti to knit and crochet high quality artisanal baby products. One in ten children in Haiti lives in an orphanage and 80% of those children have living parents who…
Whole Child International promotes positive developmental outcomes for children through child protection systems strengthening and improving the quality of care for children in low- and middle-income countries.
Street Child's vision is a world in which all children are safe, in school and learning. We believe that education is not only a fundamental human right but the surest pathway out of poverty, and that schools should be a site of safety as…
To create transformative and globally connected learning experiences, preparing orphaned and vulnerable children for a lifetime of influence.
The corporation is organized to provide nutritious fortified meals throughout the world to children and families that are most vunerable to hunger and malnutriion.
Human Rights for Kids is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights for children. We use an integrated, multi-faceted approach which consists of research & public education, coalition…
Childcare Worldwide (CW) transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education. We connect sponsors with children through Christ-based life centers.…
Earthchildren builds sustainable cities and communities in dark and hard to reach places with a focus on vulnerable women and orphaned children. we create programs that deliver holistic and balanced services including learning centers and…
We can build a more empathetic and equitable world by connecting kids and families to community service opportunities in an inspiring, accessible, and approachable way.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Project Sweet Peas. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 88 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 Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUNCHBOX FUND ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
- Who funds FLYING KITES INC ↗
- Who funds Grahamtastic Connection ↗
- Who funds MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAHA GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HELP THE HELPLESS ↗
- Who funds BE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Project Suma Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds EVKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WISHES ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION AND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Project Sweet Peas ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
- Who funds BE KIND SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Locker Project ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNINGWORKS ↗
- Who funds GAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH ↗
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: Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman 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 Evelyn S and K E Barrett 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Covenant to Care for Children Inc — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
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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