· Private foundation
Franklin Savings Bank Community Development 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: 51% of Franklin Savings Bank Community Development 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 $10k173 grants · $426k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Franklin Ski & Outing Club (dba Farmington Ski Club) | $153,000 |
| Avesta Housing Development Corporation | $25,000 |
| Beth Brunswick Memorial Fund For Children | $25,000 |
| Care and Share Food Closet | $20,000 |
| Greater Franklin Development Council | $12,500 |
| University of Maine System | $12,000 |
| Main Street Skowhegan | $11,500 |
| Skowhegan Area High School | $10,179 |
| High Peaks Alliance | $10,000 |
| MaineGeneral Health | $9,833 |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc | $9,000 |
| Heart of Ellsworth | $9,000 |
| Children's Discovery Museum | $8,333 |
| RSU 10 | $7,500 |
| Susan L Curtis Charitable Foundation | $7,500 |
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, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
157 repeat relationships — 119 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 63 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k 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
- MSMAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN6× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +228%
- GFGreater Franklin Development Council6× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +309%
- HOHEART OF ELLSWORTH5× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $72k · revenue +33%
- SMSaddleback Mountain Foundationone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -100%
- LFLifeFlight Foundationone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -41%
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.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to…
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.
To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.
The Association's primary mission is to keep the tourism insdustry sustainable by providing visitors and residents with tourism information, to develop travel, tourism, and advocacy, and to promote workforce development in Maine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Maine Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Sandy River and Rangeley Lake Railroad. 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 25 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
167 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 167 of the 295 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN ↗
- Who funds Greater Franklin Development Council ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ELLSWORTH ↗
- Who funds HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Saddleback Mountain Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN OF MAINE ATTN ROGER ARSENAULT ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI VALLY AREA ↗
- Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARE & SHARE FOOD CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds BETH BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL FUND FOR CH ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN SKI & OUTING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Carrabassett Valley Academy ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Safe Voices ↗
- Who funds LARRY LABONTE RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community Concepts Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CURTAIN UP ENTERPRISES ↗
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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Onion Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson
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 Franklin Savings Bank Community Development 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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