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First Federal Savings and Loan Assn of Bath Charitable Foundation at a glance

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First Federal Savings and Loan Assn of Bath Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$64kHuman Services$35kEnvironment$32kHealth$26kCommunity Improvement$14kArts & Culture$9kRecreation & Sports$9kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$360k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA$15,000
CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY YMCA$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 9%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172k · 14 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$172k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CR
    Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +33%
  • MS
    Main Street Bath
    3× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +23%
  • DS
    DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • BR
    Boothbay Region Land Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +27%
  • LH
    LINCOLN HEALTH CORNSTONE CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Bangor Historical Society

Bangor Historical Society's Mission is to share the region's rich history with the community and its visitors through research, education and programs.

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2
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

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…

Environment
3
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
4
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
5
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust

We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.

—
6
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
7
Maine Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Maine Huts & Trails

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…

Education
9
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
10
Lincolnville Historical Society

To preserve collect and digitize the archive of the town of Lincolnville Maine's history ecology flora and fauna

Unclassified
11
Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation

Preserving our Maritime Heritage by supporting working waterfront, promoting sustainable practices, and embracing the educational opportunities this stewardship provides.

Environment
12
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RSU 1 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherRSU 1 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONREGIONAL SCHOOL UNIT 1: $12,200 · OtherREGIONAL SCHOOL UNIT 1LINCOLNHEALTH: $10,000 · OtherLINCOLNHEALTHKELT- KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $10,000 · OtherKELT- KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUSTIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherCENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY YMCA: $5,000 · OtherLINCOLN HEALTH CORNSTONE CAMPAIGN: $5,000 · Other+8 more: $12,200 · Other+8 moreBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $30,000 · Human ServicesBATH AREA FAMILY YMCADEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Human ServicesDEAN SNELL CANCER FOU…Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $15,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Riv…Boothbay Region Land Trust: $5,000 · EnvironmentBoothbay Re…KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $2,150 · EnvironmentKENNEBEC ES…Main Street Bath: $11,800 · Arts & CultureMain Stre…Maine Maritime Museum: $4,500 · Arts & CultureMaine Mar…DAMARISCOTTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 · Arts & CultureDAMARISCO…FIELDS FOR OUR FUTURE: $5,000 · EducationPATTEN FREE LIBRARY: $2,075 · EducationMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentUnited Way Inc: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$120,400Human Services$41,000Environment$22,150Arts & Culture$18,800Education$7,075Youth Development$2,500Philanthropy$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMain Street Bath: $11,800 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetLINCOLNHEALTH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIELDS FOR OUR FUTURE: $5,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMaine Maritime Museum: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAMARISCOTTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $2,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 Boothbay Region Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds FIELDS FOR OUR FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
  • Who funds DAMARISCOTTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark ↗
  • Who funds KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds PATTEN FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Bath Rotary Club ↗
  • Who funds United Way Inc ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Reny Charitable Found…The Alfred M Senter F…Davis Family Foundati…Dorothy G & Stanley E…The Marjorie C Bailey…Mildred H McEvoy Foun…Davis Conservation Fo…Fisher Charitable Fou…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Ibm International Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Maine Community Foundation IncME22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization First Federal Savings and Loan Assn of Bath Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Federal Savings and Loan Assn of Bath Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to First Federal Savings and Loan Assn of Bath Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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