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Granite Point Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $350,000 |
| MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC | $250,000 |
| ROYAL RIVER COMMUNITY PLAYERS | $33,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY | $25,000 |
| PREBLE STREET | $20,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| COASTWISE INCORPORATED | $15,000 |
| SOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC | $10,000 |
| GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| MAINE SPORTS HALL OF FAME | $5,000 |
| ISLAND INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PEARY'S EAGLE ISLAND LTD | $5,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
Williams College5× · 2020–2024 · $750k · revenue +51%- FOFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY7× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +73%
Maine Island Trail Association7× · 2017–2023 · $126k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCHone grant, 2020 · $40k
- CCCHRISTOPHER'S CHALLENGE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15% · 28% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF TRI VALLY AREAone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -25%
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…
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
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…
Maine Rivers is a statewide advocacy organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine's river systems. We support and direct efforts to conserve and improve the health of Maine's rivers and…
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
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…
The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.
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.
Maine preservation promotes and preserves historic places, buildings, downtowns and neighborhoods, stenghtening the cultural and economic vitality of maine communities.
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Stage Company and the most unlike its peers is North Atlantic Figure Skating Club. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 16% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 44 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 Williams College ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds ROYAL RIVER COMMUNITY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds Cape Elizabeth Land Trust ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds MAINE SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER'S CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI VALLY AREA ↗
- Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
- Who funds BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GRACE ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TITCOMB SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTH ATLANTIC FIGURE SKATING CLUB ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ST LAWRENCE CHURCH ↗
- Who funds MAINE BOYS TO MEN ↗
- Who funds RIPPLEFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY CHILDRENS TASK FORCE 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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · The Redmond Family Foundation · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · The Miley Foundation · Block Island Maritime Funding 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 Granite Point 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Williams College — 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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