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Flynn Family FDN Co John Flynn
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of Flynn Family FDN Co John Flynn’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kennebunk High School | $25,000 |
| Maine State Society Protection Anim | $20,000 |
| Town of Kennebunkport Visiting Nurs | $12,500 |
| Squirrel Island Preservation Founda | $10,000 |
| CS3 | $10,000 |
| Kennebunk Elementary School | $10,000 |
| Lutheran High School | $10,000 |
| St Brigid School | $10,000 |
| Dempsey Centers FOR CANCER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue | $10,000 |
| Master Christian School | $10,000 |
| LifeFlight | $10,000 |
| Camp Kita | $10,000 |
| Town of Kennebunkport Food Pantry | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- TKTHE KITA CENTERINC5× · 2019–2024 · $69k · revenue +834%
- RFRobbie Foundation4× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue +863%
- BRBoothbay Region Land Trust6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- DSDestiny Servicesone grant, 2019 · $20k
- KHKennebunkport Housing Trustone grant, 2019 · $15k
- MSMiddle School of the Kennebunksone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
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…
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…
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
The mission of the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust is to conserve, restore, and instill appreciation of the land and water resources of the Kennebec Estuary for the benefit of today's communities and future generations.
Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
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.
The mission of the Maine Island Trail Association is to advance a model of thoughtful use and volunteer stewardship of Maine's wild islands, creating an inspiring recreational water trail that is cared for by the people who use it.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
With the assistance from the community and countless volunteers, the Trust has build a network of protected places. It blends land preservation, stewardship, member engagement, education of natural and historic resources into our mission.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
Our Mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maines forest community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boothbay Region Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Rsu 21. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 61 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 THE KITA CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds Robbie Foundation ↗
- Who funds SACO RIVER WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Region Land Trust ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE ↗
- Who funds TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Squirrel Island Preservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHURCH COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 0218 PINE TREE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RSU 21 ↗
- Who funds Victoria Mansion ↗
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 · The William J J Gordon Family Foundation · Narragansett Number One Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Flynn Family FDN Co John Flynn 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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