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Gwendolen Elwell Flanagan 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.

$108k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$317kHealth$116kFood & Nutrition$113kArts & Culture$66kHuman Services$35kCrime & Legal$20kRecreation & Sports$10kHousing & Shelter$6k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$629k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVER AFTER MUSTANG RESCUE$15,000
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK$10,000
PEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY$5,000
ME STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION$5,000
ST APOLLONIA DENTAL CLINIC$5,000
TOMMY'S FERAL FELINE FRIENDS$5,000
CITY OF PORTLAND ME PUBLIC HEALTH$5,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT$5,000
THE LOCKER PROJECT$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS$5,000
MAINE WABANAKI REACH$5,000
BETTY J BORRY BREAST CANCER$4,000
FURNITURE FRIENDS$4,000
HART$4,000
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 (FY23–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAINE NEEDS: $3k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $3k → 7%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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Gwendolen Elwell Flanagan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in ME; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Gwendolen Elwell Flanagan Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$652k · 24 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
8

Total granted

$652k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+739%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
AnimalsFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +83%
  • CB
    Celebration Barn Theater
    8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +38%
  • FO
    Friends of Feral Felines
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +78%
  • TJ
    Trinity Jubilee Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +739%
  • BI
    BACK IN THE MAIN STREAM
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

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
Machias Area Food Pantry

The primary mission of the Machias Area Food Pantry is to provide good healthy food to individuals and families who are food insecure throughout Washington County, Maine.

Food & Nutrition
2
Marine Mammals of Maine

To rescue injured, sick and abandoned marine mammals and to educate the public about what to do if they find one of these marine mammals.

Arts & Culture
3
Cat Life Maine Inc

Cat Life Maine is a nonprofit animal welfare organization dedicated to reducing cat overpopulation and preventable suffering through trap-neuter-return (TNR), spay/neuter assistance, foster-based rescue, adoption, colony care, and…

Animals
4
Needlepoint Sanctuary of Maine

The mission of Needlepoint Sanctuary is to realize the meaning of the word sanctuary within our community and reduce the harms associated with drug use, poverty, and social inequality.

Health
5
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
6
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
7
Maine Wildlife Rehabilitation

To support native wildlife, population research, and environmental education through several specific aims: Provide rehabilitation and high quality medical care to individual animals adversely impacted by human development and changing…

Animals
8
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
9
Maine Friends of Animals

Our mission is to promote the humane treatment of animals through education, advocacy, and legislation. since 1997, mfoa has been maine's leading voice for animal protection-working tirelessly to end animal cruelty in the state.

Animals
10
Fair Tide

Fair Tide's mission is to reduce homelessness by providing Housing and support services to individuals and families in the seacoast. Through Fair Tide's permanent housing program, homeless households benefit from intensive case management…

Housing & Shelter
11
Camden Area Christian Food Pantry

Provide food and basic necessities to individuals and families in need in the Camden, Maine area

Food & Nutrition
12
Fork Food Lab

Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Shepherd Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Celebration Barn Theater. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 34 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
15/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ever After Mustang Rescue — $115,000 · OtherEver After Mustang RescueTOMMYS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS — $42,000 · OtherTOMMYS FERAL FELINE FRIENDSME STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION — $40,000 · OtherME STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTIONST APOLLONIA DENTAL CLINIC — $25,000 · OtherST APOLLONIA DENTAL CLINICHART — $24,000 · OtherHARTBETTY J BORRY BREAST CANCER — $23,000 · OtherBETTY J BORRY BREAST CANCERIndividual grant recipient — $17,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF PORTLAND COMMUNITY — $15,000 · OtherCITY OF PORTLAND ME PUBLIC HEALTH — $13,000 · Other+10 more — $43,000 · Other+10 moreGood Shepherd Food Bank — $90,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food …Locker Project — $20,000 · Food & NutritionLocker ProjectTrinity Jubilee Center Inc — $5,000 · Food & NutritionFriends of Feral Felines — $32,000 · AnimalsFriends of F…PEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY — $22,000 · AnimalsPEACE RIDGE …AVIAN HAVEN — $14,000 · AnimalsAVIAN HAVENHomeless Animal Rescue Team of Maine Inc — $8,000 · AnimalsHomeless Ani…Celebration Barn Theater — $34,000 · Arts & CultureCelebratio…MAINE-WABANAKI REACH — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE-WABA…Opera in the Pines Inc — $3,000 · Arts & CultureWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC — $25,000 · HealthFURNITURE FRIENDS — $16,000 · Human ServicesMaine Needs Inc — $6,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $20,000 · Crime & LegalTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$357,000Food & Nutrition$115,000Animals$76,000Arts & Culture$62,000Health$25,000Human Services$22,000Crime & Legal$20,000Public Benefit$5,000

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 budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCelebration Barn Theater — $34,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetFriends of Feral Felines — $32,000 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetMAINE-WABANAKI REACH — $25,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY — $22,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLocker Project — $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFURNITURE FRIENDS — $16,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetAVIAN HAVEN — $14,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHomeless Animal Rescue Team of Maine Inc — $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMaine Needs Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOpera in the Pines Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 9.0% 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 Good Shepherd Food Bank
  • Who funds Celebration Barn Theater
  • Who funds Friends of Feral Felines
  • Who funds MAINE-WABANAKI REACH
  • Who funds WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC
  • Who funds PEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY
  • Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT
  • Who funds Locker Project
  • Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS
  • Who funds AVIAN HAVEN
  • Who funds Homeless Animal Rescue Team of Maine Inc
  • Who funds Maine Needs Inc
  • Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Trinity Jubilee Center Inc
  • Who funds Opera in the Pines 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 IncME30.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Onion Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · The Politzer Family Foundation Inc · Woodside Foundation · Moser Family Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Grapevine giving 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 Gwendolen Elwell Flanagan 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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

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    How do I get to Gwendolen Elwell Flanagan Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gwendolen Elwell Flanagan Foundation 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 34 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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