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Fish Hawk Foundation Inc at a glance

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Fish Hawk Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$54kRecreation & Sports$25kPhilanthropy$25kEducation$12kEnvironment$5kScience & Tech$2kHealth$1kInternational$1k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$565k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKYSTONE FOUNDATION$25,000
US ROWING ASSOCIATION$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE: $1k → 11%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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 5 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$57k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+7%

Still filing today

60%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentScience & TechInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PM
    PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM
    2× · 2022–2023 · $33k · revenue -39%
  • CI
    CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k
  • CP
    CAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k

Funded once

  • NH
    NORTH HAVEN LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -58%
  • CL
    CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • BL
    Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciencesgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +46%
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
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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4
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
5
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
6
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Kodiak Maritime Museum

Exhibit Kodiak Maritime history

Arts & Culture
8
Oceanside Conservation Trust

The organization works to conserve wild or underdeveloped open space, scenic areas, and historic landmarks in the casco bay region.

—
9
Camden Shipyard Maritime Museum

To educate the world about camden's rich maritime heritage and significant contributions to global shipbuilding and seafaring exploration.

Arts & Culture
10
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
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
Chebeague Island Library

Operation of a community library on chebeague island, maine.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Penobscot Marine Museum; the most unlike its peers is Skystone Foundation Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Skystone Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherSkystone Foundation IncUS ROWING ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherUS ROWING ASSOCIATIONCAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $20,000 · OtherCAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALNORTH HAVEN LIBRARY: $10,000 · OtherNORTH HAVEN LIBRARY+3 more: $5,000 · Other+3 morePENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM: $33,000 · Arts & CulturePENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $2,000 · Science & TechCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $1,500 · EnvironmentForest Society of Maine: $500 · EnvironmentATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP: $1,000 · InternationalCOASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$85,000Arts & Culture$33,500Science & Tech$2,000Environment$2,000International$1,000Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM: $33,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSkystone Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH HAVEN LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 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.

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.

Middlecott FoundationMaine Community Found…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Middlecott FoundationMA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Middlecott Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Fish Hawk Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fish Hawk Foundation Inc. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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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    How do I get to Fish Hawk Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Fish Hawk Foundation Inc 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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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