· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $35,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR WRONGFUL CONVICTION | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION ME | $8,000 |
| PALAVER STRINGS | $7,500 |
| PORTLAND BALLET | $5,000 |
| HAND IN HAND MANO EN MANO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| PREBLE STREET | $4,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $3,000 |
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 (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. 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.
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
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
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
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +371%
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Initiativesinc and the most unlike its peers is Seven Eagles Media Production. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 39 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 George J & Theresa L Cotsirilos Family Foundation C/O Stephanie Cotsirilos 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.