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Good Hope Family Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S-BY-THE-SEA EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $12,982 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $5,000 |
| STEAMBOAT MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL PATIENT CARE FUND | $5,000 |
| BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| SCHOODIC INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| THE CALTECH FUND | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $2,000 |
| MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL | $1,500 |
| ISLAND HOUSING TRUST | $1,500 |
| COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE ENGINEERING MEDICI | $1,000 |
| THE FOREST SOCIETY OF MAINE | $1,000 |
| BAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- FOFriends of Acadia4× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +88%
- SISCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK3× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +51%
- TLTHE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL2× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SSSOCIAL SERVICES FUND - MGHone grant, 2023 · $3k
- IHISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +74%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
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…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
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 mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
We boldly navigate climate and economic change with island and coastal communities to expand opportunities and deliver solutions.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Housing Trust and the most unlike its peers is Bar Harbor Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% 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 9% 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 38 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 Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds THE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Forest Society of Maine ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds BAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CLOVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
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 · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Florence V Burden Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Good Hope Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- American Physical Society — 1% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School — 0% 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.
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