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Gloria C Mackenzie Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Public Benefit$3.0MEducation$2.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$874kPhilanthropy$450kRecreation & Sports$263kHuman Services$91kHealth$67kArts & Culture$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $642k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RSU #89 KATAHDIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$165,000
Individual grant recipient$90,000
TOWN OF GREENBUSH FIRE DEPARTMENT$80,000
TOWN OF KENDUSKEAG (FIRE RESCUE)$80,000
RSU #89$72,000
TOWN OF CORINTH$54,200
Individual grant recipient$51,000
TOWN OF EDDINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT$50,000
TOWN OF PATTEN MAINE$45,000
MSAD#63RSU #63$45,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
FRIENDS OF SANGERVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT$39,000
Individual grant recipient$38,450
EAST MILLINOCKET SCHOOL SYSTEM$35,000
MSAD #30$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAMP CAPELLA: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 15 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
55

Total granted

$5.3M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+35%

Still filing today

13%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • TO
    TOWN OF EAST MILLINOCKET
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M
  • RS
    REGIONAL SCHOOL UNIT #89
    4× · 2018–2022 · $768k
  • SW
    South Walton Academy Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $600k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MS
    MAINE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $225k
  • TO
    TOWN OF CARMEL
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • HT
    HUDSON TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $137k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lake Stewards of Maine - Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program

Facilitate the collection and quality assurance of lake monitoring data gathered from over 500 state of maine lakes

Environment
2
Lakewood Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood

Lakewood d/b/a Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood is a 105 bed long-term care facility that provides skilled, dementia and long-term nursing care.

Health
3
East Lyme Land Trust Inc

Land preservation and conservation and protection of the water supply in East Lyme, CT

4
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
5
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
6
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative

The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…

Animals
7
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
8
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

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…

Environment
9
30 Mile River Watershed Association

The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…

Environment
10
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
11
Maine Island Trail Association

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.

Environment
12
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc

Loon Echo Land Trust protects land in the northern Sebago Lake region to conserve its natural resources and character for future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory and the most unlike its peers is Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 97 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOWN OF EAST MILLINOCKET — $1,706,412 · OtherTOWN OF EAST MILLINOCKETREGIONAL SCHOOL UNIT #89 — $767,504 · OtherREGIONAL SCHOOL UNIT #89Individual grant recipient — $518,519 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTOWN OF ISLAND FALLS — $340,995 · Other+84 more — $4,465,925 · Other+84 moreSouth Walton Academy Inc — $600,000 · Education+2 more — $18,380 · EducationTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST — $450,000 · PhilanthropyEAST BRANCH SNO-ROVERS AND ATV — $229,298 · Public Safety & DisasterEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen — $50,000 · HealthDOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC — $50,000 · AnimalsMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory — $45,000 · Science & TechBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences — $3,830 · Science & Tech
Other$7,799,355Education$618,380Philanthropy$450,000Public Safety & Disaster$229,298Health$50,000Animals$50,000Science & Tech$48,830

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSouth Walton Academy Inc — $600,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST — $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BRANCH SNO-ROVERS AND ATV — $229,298 over 3y, 37% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory — $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST BRANCH HISTORICAL PRESERVATION — $30,500 over 1y, 91% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $13,380 over 1y, 44% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Bangor — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHREE RIVERS AMBULANCE SERVICE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences — $3,830 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 South Walton Academy Inc
  • Who funds THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST
  • Who funds EAST BRANCH SNO-ROVERS AND ATV
  • Who funds Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen
  • Who funds DOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Gloria C Mackenzie Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Gloria C Mackenzie Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Gloria C Mackenzie Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 97 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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