· Private foundation
George J & Theresa L Cotsirilos Family Foundation C/O Stephanie Cotsirilos
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $35,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION ME | $8,000 |
| CENTER FOR WRONGFUL CONVICTION | $8,000 |
| PALAVER STRINGS | $7,500 |
| HAND IN HAND MANO EN MANO | $5,000 |
| PORTLAND BALLET | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| PREBLE STREET | $4,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Save The Children Federation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +21%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +98%- ILIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT8× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - THE LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $15k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +371%
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.
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.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
To promote and ensure workers' rights
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.
We advocate for our members by influencing government policies, building community support for public education, expanding educational employees' rights, and promoting improvements in working conditions.
The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
The Maine Philanthropy Center (MPC) is the state's leading resource that provides opportunity, leadership and support to advance the effectiveness of philanthropy in Maine and its ability to make a meaningful difference. It helps grant…
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds PALAVER STRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds MABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OVATIONS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SEVEN EAGLES MEDIA PRODUCTION ↗
- Who funds MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indigo Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds MAINE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS ALLIAN ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SEA CHANGE YOGA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Evergreen Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Jcl Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George J & Theresa L Cotsirilos Family Foundation C/O Stephanie Cotsirilos funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George J & Theresa L Cotsirilos Family Foundation C/O Stephanie Cotsirilos. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government