· Private foundation
Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS CHARITIES | $285,790 |
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 (FY17–20, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +86% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BHBAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY3× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +584%
- ICISLAND CONNECTIONS3× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +92%
- MDMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC3× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +607%
Funded once
- OTOPEN TABLE MDIgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +58%
- HHHarbor House Community Service Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +32%
- ACA CLIMATE TO THRIVEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +26%
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.
To maintain a library proving lending services to all residents of Monhegan Island, ME.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Operation of a community library on chebeague island, maine.
Providing quality materials and services, which fulfill the educational, information, cultural and recreational needs of the entire community in an atmosphere that is welcoming and respectful.
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 mission of the mount desert island historical society is to foster meaningful engagement with the histories of mount desert island
The mission of the Mount Desert Island YMCA is to develop community, character, personal growth and wellness in spirit, mind, and body for the greater Mount Desert Island community.
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…
Mission is to connect the Biddeford community with materials, programs, services, and other informational and cultural resources enabling fuller, better, and richer lives.
We are a free public library serving the people of eastport, me and the surrounding communities. the population is estimated to be 3,500 people.
Library Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Housing Trust and the most unlike its peers is Bar Harbor Village Improvement. 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 30 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% 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 7% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 142 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 Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LOCAL SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds ISLAND CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Kids Corner Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CLUB ↗
- Who funds SOMESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MAINE GRANITE INDUSTRY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE MDI ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Harbor House Community Service Center ↗
- Who funds CAMP BEECH CLIFF ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ACADIA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Abbe Museum ↗
- Who funds A CLIMATE TO THRIVE ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND ↗
- Who funds ACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 · Colket Family Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Fore River Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Atwater Kent Foundation · The Medway Charitable Trust · John W and Clara C Higgins Foundation · The Howard Johnson 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 Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust 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.
- Endicott College — 1% 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.