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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 it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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 KENDUSKEAG (FIRE RESCUE)$80,000
TOWN OF GREENBUSH FIRE DEPARTMENT$80,000
RSU #89$72,000
TOWN OF CORINTH$54,200
Individual grant recipient$51,000
TOWN OF EDDINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT$50,000
MSAD#63RSU #63$45,000
TOWN OF PATTEN MAINE$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory; 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 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. 13 of the 97 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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 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

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 Gloria C Mackenzie Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gloria C Mackenzie Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%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
    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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 97 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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