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Helen and George Ladd Charitable 0720995 Charitable Corporation #0720995
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of HELEN AND GEORGE LADD CHARITABLE 0720995 CHARITABLE CORPORATION #0720995’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $224k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF WAYNE MAINE | $105,670 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE NEW YORK | $61,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE MAINE | $57,000 |
| SAFE VOICES | $25,000 |
| YMCA CENTRAL MAINE | $25,000 |
| GOOD SHEPARD FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE SEARCH | $15,000 |
| HOME INC | $14,000 |
| MAINE HEALTH | $12,500 |
| RURAL COMMUNITY ACTION MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| WAYFINDER SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| MAINE EQUAL JUSTICE | $9,500 |
| COMMUNITY DENTAL | $7,500 |
| MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- SVSafe Voices6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +55%
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +50%
- HIHOME INC6× · 2020–2025 · $82k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF LEWISTON-AUBURNone grant, 2020 · $25k
- KVKennebec Valley YMCAone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -2%
- FOFIGURES OF SPEECH THEATREone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -36%
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.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
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…
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
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…
Our mission is to strengthen the leadership, voice, and organizational effectiveness of our state's nonprofit organizations so they can better enrich the quality of community and personal life in Maine.
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
Ensured a high quality, accessible, affordable and appropriate integrated health care system to improve the health and well being of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Humanities Council and the most unlike its peers is Rural Community Action Ministry. 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
49 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. 49 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.
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 Safe Voices ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds Franklin Community Health Network ↗
- Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Maine Equal Justice Partners ↗
- Who funds Rural Community Action Ministry ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
- Who funds MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LA Public Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds THE THEATER AT MONMOUTH ↗
- Who funds Cobscook Community Learning Center ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds TREE STREET YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds LA ARTS ↗
- Who funds Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds WINTHROP FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Androscoggin Home Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Healthy Community Coalition ↗
- Who funds A Company of Girls ↗
- Who funds Maine Alliance for Arts Education ↗
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 · Davis Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Libra Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development 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 Helen and George Ladd Charitable 0720995 Charitable Corporation #0720995 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.
- New England Village Inc — 68% 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.
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