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Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation at a glance

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Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$705k
Granted FY2025still arriving
182
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$153k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$483kEducation$417kFood & Nutrition$295kCommunity Improvement$286kHealth$200kArts & Culture$167kHuman Services$98kHousing & Shelter$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 182 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k173 grants · $426k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $153k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Heart of Ellsworth$9,000
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc$9,000
Children's Discovery Museum$8,333
RSU 10$7,500
Susan L Curtis Charitable Foundation$7,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Common Good Soup Kitchen Community: $2k → 11%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $3k → 7%Catholic Charities of Maine: $2k → 7%Tree of Life: $2k → 11%Western Maine Community Action Inc: $5k → 14%Western Maine Community Action: $500 → 14%Autism Society of Maine: $500 → 12%Young Men's Christian Association State of Maine: $500 → 12%Autism Society of Maine: $500 → 12%Young Men's Christian Association State of Maine: $500 → 12%Autism Society of Maine: $500 → 12%SeniorsPlus: $1k → 13%Riding to the Top: $3k → 7%New Beginnings: $1k → 13%SeniorsPlus: $500 → 13%SeniorsPlus: $250 → 13%Families First Community Center: $3k → 11%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $5k → 12%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $5k → 12%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $5k → 12%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $5k → 12%Camp Capella Inc: $2k → 11%Camp Capella Inc: $1k → 11%Family Violence Project: $250 → 12%Family Violence Project: $250 → 12%Family Violence Project: $250 → 12%Albiston Foundation: $2k → 14%Albiston Foundation: $2k → 14%Albiston Foundation: $2k → 14%Albiston Foundation: $2k → 14%Rumford Group Homes Inc: $225 → 13%LEAP Inc: $2k → 14%LEAP: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
VA
MD
GA
TX
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 157 repeat orgs$558k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

157
75

Total granted

$1.7M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+16%

Still filing today

58%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MS
    MAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +228%
  • GF
    Greater Franklin Development Council
    6× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +309%
  • HO
    HEART OF ELLSWORTH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $72k · revenue +33%
  • SM
    Saddleback Mountain Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -100%
  • LF
    LifeFlight Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -41%
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
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
4
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
5
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Maine & Company

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…

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7
Maine Farm Bureau Association

An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.

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8
Sail Maine

To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.

Arts & Culture
9
Maine Council on Aging

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…

Unclassified
10
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Eastern Area Agency on Aging

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.

Human Services
12
Maine Tourism Association

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Maine Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

167 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
162/167
Grantees still filing
89/167
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Franklin Ski & Outing Club (dba Farmington Ski Club): $153,000 · OtherFranklin Ski & Outing Club (dba Farmington Ski Club)Mt Blue High School: $47,548 · OtherAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Other+137 more: $1,008,676 · Other+137 moreMAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN: $105,700 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET S…Greater Franklin Development Council: $91,500 · Community ImprovementGreater Frank…HEART OF ELLSWORTH: $58,500 · Community ImprovementHEART OF ELLS…HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE: $51,000 · Recreation & SportsHIGH PEAKS A…Saddleback Mountain Foundation: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsSaddleback M…BLACK MOUNTAIN OF MAINE ATTN ROGER ARSENAULT: $49,600 · Recreation & SportsBLACK MOUNTA…The Susan L Curtis Foundation: $29,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Susan L …FRANKLIN SKI & OUTING CLUB INC: $22,664 · Recreation & SportsFRANKLIN SKI…SPRUCE MOUNTAIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT: $14,936 · Recreation & SportsSPRUCE MOUNT…NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION INC: $14,500 · Recreation & SportsNEW ENGLAND …+3 more: $10,685 · Recreation & SportsPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $38,800 · EducationBETH BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL FUND FOR CH: $25,000 · EducationCarrabassett Valley Academy: $22,500 · EducationMAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE: $13,800 · EducationMAINE STREAM PLACE INC: $10,000 · EducationFARMINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $9,500 · Education+6 more: $14,200 · EducationGood Shepherd Food Bank: $71,850 · Food & NutritionCARE & SHARE FOOD CLOSET INC: $26,100 · Food & NutritionGREATER FRANKLIN FOOD COUNCIL: $7,500 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $6,350 · Food & NutritionFood Cupboard of Jay Livermore and Livermore Falls: $5,900 · Food & Nutrition+6 more: $12,300 · Food & NutritionSEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SUPPORT CENTER: $24,500 · HealthLARRY LABONTE RECOVERY CENTER: $18,500 · HealthRANGELEY REGION HEALTH AND WELLNESS PARTNERSHIP: $14,800 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MAINE: $10,500 · HealthLifeFlight Foundation: $10,000 · HealthRiver Valley Healthy Communities Coalition: $7,100 · HealthKENNEBEC MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES: $7,000 · HealthKENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $5,000 · Health+5 more: $13,200 · HealthCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $16,666 · Arts & CultureCURTAIN UP ENTERPRISES: $16,190 · Arts & CultureKINGFIELD POPS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM: $9,500 · Arts & CultureVietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc: $9,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN MAINE PLAY MUSEUM: $7,900 · Arts & CultureHancock County Auditorium Associates: $5,000 · Arts & CultureRangeley Lakes Region Historical Society: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $7,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,259,224Community Improvement$255,700Recreation & Sports$242,385Education$133,800Food & Nutrition$130,000Health$110,600Arts & Culture$90,256

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN: $105,700 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetGreater Franklin Development Council: $91,500 over 6y, 16% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $71,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF ELLSWORTH: $58,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetHIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE: $51,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSaddleback Mountain Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN OF MAINE ATTN ROGER ARSENAULT: $49,600 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $38,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI VALLY AREA: $30,300 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $29,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCARE & SHARE FOOD CLOSET INC: $26,100 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SUPPORT CENTER: $24,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRANKLIN SKI & OUTING CLUB INC: $22,664 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCarrabassett Valley Academy: $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $20,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Voices: $20,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLARRY LABONTE RECOVERY CENTER: $18,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetCommunity Concepts Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $16,666 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCURTAIN UP ENTERPRISES: $16,190 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSPRUCE MOUNTAIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT: $14,936 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetRANGELEY REGION HEALTH AND WELLNESS PARTNERSHIP: $14,800 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE: $13,800 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMaine Appalachian Trail Club: $11,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRANGELEY FRIENDS OF THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budget30 Mile River Watershed Association: $10,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MAINE: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSARGENT FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUGARLOAF REGION CHARITABLE TRUST: $10,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetMISSION AT THE EASTWARD: $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMAINE STREAM PLACE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFARMINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $9,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM: $9,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetVietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVolunteers of America Northern New England: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN MAINE PLAY MUSEUM: $7,900 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetGREATER FRANKLIN FOOD COUNCIL: $7,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE MASONIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE GRAND LODGE OF MAINE: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRiver Valley Healthy Communities Coalition: $7,100 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAlbiston Foundation: $7,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKENNEBEC MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSomerset Humane Society: $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFARMINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,500 over 2y, 12% 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 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 ↗

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…Bangor Savings Bank F…Elmina B Sewall Found…Onion FoundationJohn T Gorman Foundat…Davis Family Foundati…Fisher Charitable Fou…Maine Health Access F…Kennebec Savings Bank…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Good Shepherd Food Ba…Simmons Foundation - …
Maine Community Foundation IncME139× affinity123 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Franklin Savings Bank Community Development 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 295 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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