· Private foundation
First Federal Savings and Loan Assn of Bath Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSN OF BATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY YMCA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 73% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CRCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +33%
- MSMain Street Bath3× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +23%
- DSDEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- LHLINCOLN HEALTH CORNSTONE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2018 · $5k
- BRBoothbay Region Land Trustone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +22%
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.
Bangor Historical Society's Mission is to share the region's rich history with the community and its visitors through research, education and programs.
The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…
We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
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…
MHT envisions a future where more individuals, schools, groups, and families can experience enriching, even life changing backcountry experiences. MHT seeks to increase access to the outdoors, inspire more people to explore and cherish the…
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.
To preserve collect and digitize the archive of the town of Lincolnville Maine's history ecology flora and fauna
Preserving our Maritime Heritage by supporting working waterfront, promoting sustainable practices, and embracing the educational opportunities this stewardship provides.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust and the most unlike its peers is Damariscotta Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds Main Street Bath ↗
- Who funds DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNHEALTH ↗
- Who funds FIELDS FOR OUR FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Region Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark ↗
- Who funds DAMARISCOTTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PATTEN FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Bath Rotary Club ↗
- Who funds United Way Inc ↗
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 · Reny Charitable Foundation · The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust · Davis Family Foundation · Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable Foundation · The Marjorie C Bailey Charitable Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 First Federal Savings and Loan Assn of Bath Charitable 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.
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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