· Private foundation
Herbert E Tyler and Grace M Tyler Foundation
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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Honor Flight New England | $20,000 |
| Maine Needs Inc | $20,000 |
| Sweet Paws Rescue | $20,000 |
| Hospice of Southern Maine | $20,000 |
| Footprints Inc | $20,000 |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $20,000 |
| Kennebunkport Emergency Medical Services Inc | $10,000 |
| Dempsey Centers For Quality Cancer Care | $5,000 |
| MidCoast Youth Center and Skatepark | $5,000 |
| First Strike Baseball Club | $5,000 |
| Journey Church | $3,000 |
| Sabine Strong Foundation | $2,500 |
| St Martin De Porres Residence Inc | $2,500 |
| Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $1,000 |
| Bethel Library Association | $750 |
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, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% 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 6% of Herbert E Tyler and Grace M Tyler 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, 98% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 13 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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
- MHMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital4× · 2020–2023 · $311k · revenue +49%
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank5× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +50%
- MMaineHealth2× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- CLCentral Lincoln County YMCAone grant, 2024 · $50k
- TLThe Lincoln Homeone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- PBPen Bay Christian Schoolone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
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…
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…
Eastern Maine Medical Center d/b/a Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center strives to provide exceptional primary and specialty healthcare with a passionate pursuit of excellence in patient safety, clinical quality, and service. Our…
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…
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.
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.
Lakewood d/b/a Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood is a 105 bed long-term care facility that provides skilled, dementia and long-term nursing care.
Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.
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…
Sebasticook Valley Health d/b/a Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital is a critical access hospital whose mission is to be the regional leader in meeting the health needs of our communities, providing quality care, always treating…
Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds SCARBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds The Lincoln Home ↗
- Who funds Footprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Paws Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds Maine Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds Kennebunkport Emergency Medical Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds VNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice ↗
- Who funds Bethel Library Association ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
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 · John T Gorman Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Woodside Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation · Narragansett Number One Foundation · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830 · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc
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 Herbert E Tyler and Grace M Tyler 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.