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Hannaford Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$2.4MHealth$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.1MEducation$973kYouth Development$838kHuman Services$703kHousing & Shelter$175kEnvironment$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $715k
  • $250k+2 grants · $600k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Southern Maine (AKA United Way of Greater Portland)$350,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine$250,000
Northeastern University$125,000
Scholarship America Inc$120,100
Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity$100,000
Dempsey Centers for Quality Cancer Care$100,000
Vermont Foodbank$100,000
HFM Prevention Council$70,000
In Our Own Voices$50,000
Bangor Region YMCA$50,000
YMCA Community Center of Rome New York (aka YMCA Tri-Valley)$25,000
Fork Food Lab$25,000
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program$25,000
Glens Falls Area Youth Center$20,000
Bennington Early Childhood Center$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $849k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%In Flight Inc: $5k → 9%YWCA Northeastern New York: $25k → 12%Boys Girls Club of Newburgh: $10k → 14%Seacoast Youth Services: $18k → 5%ReGenerative Roots Association: $10k → 7%Hundred Nights: $25k → 9%Dover Police Charities: $18k → 9%AIO Food and Energy Assistance: $20k → 11%Bangor Region YMCA: $200k → 15%South End Children's Cafe: $24k → 14%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Hospice of Southern Maine: $125k → 7%Boys and Girls Club of Bangor: $20k → 15%Capital District YMCA: $100k → 14%Preble Street: $100k → 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.

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.5M · 14 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
54

Total granted

$4.5M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+11%

Still filing today

57%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • BY
    BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $350k · revenue +53%
  • DC
    Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care
    3× · 2021–2025 · $210k · revenue +10%
  • VF
    VERMONT FOODBANK
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Southern Maine
    one grant, 2022 · $350k
  • P
    Preble
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • M(
    MaineHealth (fbo Maine Medical Center)
    one grant, 2022 · $240k

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
Eastern Area Agency on Aging

It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.

Human Services
2
Bennington County Meals Program

Provide quality, nutritious and creative meals to individuals age sixty years and older; as well as, disabled residents of Bennington County, Vermont. This is accomplished through a community meal program and home deliveries to those…

Food & Nutrition
3
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
4
Belfast Area Child Care Services Inc

Our mission is to provide quality, affordable early childhood education that fosters individual success and a lifelong love of learning.

Human Services
5
Gather

Gather offers innovative programs that build food security in welcoming and dignified ways. These include our pantry market, mobile markets, Meals 4 Kids, Cooking 4 Community, gleaning, and our Gather Cafe at Great Bay Community College.

Human Services
6
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
7
Our Neighbors' Table Inc

The Organization is committed to establishing a community that provides for the whole person with nourishing food, kindness and dignity. The Organization provides food directly to those experiencing food insecurity while also directing the…

Human Services
8
Maine Council on Aging

A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…

Unclassified
9
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

—
10
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…

Health
11
Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care

Promise Early Education Center's (formerly Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care) mission is to educate, engage and empower families, one child at a time.

—
12
Locker Project

The locker project connects food-insecure children in maine with nourishing food to improve their learning capacity, health, and future.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Oxford Hills Community Gardens. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development CentersCancer Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Public Library OperationsJewish Community Organizati…Affordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Food PantriesDevelopmental Disabilities …Youth Development ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%4%<5yr12%4%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr16%14%35–55yr18%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%1%<5yr12%5%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr18%56%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
9%
845/9,492

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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 77 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
31/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

United Way of Southern Maine (AKA United Way of Greater Portland) — $1,050,000 · OtherUnited Way of Southern Maine (AKA United Way of Greater…Scholarship America — $687,573 · OtherScholarship AmericaUnited Way of Southern Maine — $350,000 · OtherUnited Way of Southern MainePreble — $250,000 · OtherPrebleMaineHealth (fbo Maine Medical Center) — $240,000 · OtherMaineHealth (fbo Maine Medical Center)+28 more — $1,295,000 · Other+28 moreUnited Way Inc — $1,037,400 · PhilanthropyUnited Way IncBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $350,000 · Human ServicesBANGOR YOUNG…Hospice of Southern Maine — $125,000 · Human ServicesHospice of S…THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416) — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG ME…PREBLE STREET — $100,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREE…+10 more — $174,000 · Human Services+10 moreMaineHealth — $240,000 · HealthMaineHeal…Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care — $210,000 · HealthDempsey C…ALCOHOLISM & SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL OF HFM COUNTIES INC — $70,000 · HealthALCOHOLIS…TAMWORTH COMMUNITY NURSE ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 · HealthTAMWORTH …GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthGLENS FAL…York Hospital — $50,000 · HealthYork Hosp…+2 more — $20,000 · HealthBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine — $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Gi…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…My Place Teen Center Inc — $25,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $60,000 · Youth Development+4 moreVERMONT FOODBANK — $200,000 · Food & NutritionSalvation Farms Inc — $100,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank — $100,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD CONNECTS — $50,000 · Food & NutritionTrinity Jubilee Center Inc — $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SYLVIA CENTER — $25,000 · Food & NutritionMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more — $25,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $125,000 · EducationTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine — $125,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CONWAY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $25,000 · EducationBennington Early Childhood Center Inc — $10,000 · Education
Other$3,872,573Philanthropy$1,037,400Human Services$849,000Health$690,000Youth Development$635,000Food & Nutrition$555,000Education$285,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUnited Way Inc — $1,037,400 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine — $500,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $350,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMaineHealth — $240,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care — $210,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine — $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416) — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEcology Education Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSalvation Farms Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetIN OUR OWN VOICES INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALCOHOLISM & SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL OF HFM COUNTIES INC — $70,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTAMWORTH COMMUNITY NURSE ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTEDFORD HOUSING — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSAINT ANNE INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD CONNECTS — $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYork Hospital — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE KITA CENTERINC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CONWAY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA OF SCHENECTADY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUNDRED NIGHTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouth End Childrens Cafe Inc — $24,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BANGOR — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPOUGHKEEPSIE FARM PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC CREDIT UNION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOVER POLICE CHARITIES INC — $17,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSeacoast Youth Services — $17,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH BERWICK FOOD PANTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBennington Early Childhood Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Agnes M Lindsay TrustBangor Savings Bank F…Maine Community Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Simmons Foundation - …Fisher Charitable Fou…Price Chopper's Golub…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Elmina B Sewall Found…Davis Family Foundati…New Hampshire Charita…Td Charitable Foundat…
Agnes M Lindsay TrustMA38.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Td Charitable 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 Hannaford Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Bennington Early Childhood Center Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Salvation Farms Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Food Connects — 15% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report 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, FY20–25

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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hannaford Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hannaford Charitable 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 77 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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