· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k20 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +83%
- CBCelebration Barn Theater8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +38%
- FOFriends of Feral Felines8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +172%
Funded once
TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +78%- TJTrinity Jubilee Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +739%
- BIBACK IN THE MAIN STREAMone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
Provide food and basic necessities to individuals and families in need in the Camden, Maine area
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,…
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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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