· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ME STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION | $5,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| ST APOLLONIA DENTAL CLINIC | $5,000 |
| THE LOCKER PROJECT | $5,000 |
| WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS | $5,000 |
| CITY OF PORTLAND ME PUBLIC HEALTH | $5,000 |
| TOMMY'S FERAL FELINE FRIENDS | $5,000 |
| PEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MAINE WABANAKI REACH | $5,000 |
| FURNITURE FRIENDS | $4,000 |
| BETTY J BORRY BREAST CANCER | $4,000 |
| HART | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Gwendolen Elwell Flanagan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in ME; by stated purpose, 93%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- TJTrinity Jubilee Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +739%
- BIBACK IN THE MAIN STREAMone grant, 2019 · $5k
TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +78%
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Trinity Jubilee Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Opera in the Pines Inc ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gwendolen Elwell Flanagan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gwendolen Elwell Flanagan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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