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Herbert E Tyler and Grace M Tyler Foundation at a glance

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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.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$384kFood & Nutrition$230kHuman Services$109kEducation$71kArts & Culture$20kAnimals$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kReligion$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Footprints Inc$20,000
Honor Flight New England$20,000
Maine Needs Inc$20,000
Hospice of Southern Maine$20,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank$20,000
Sweet Paws Rescue$20,000
Kennebunkport Emergency Medical Services Inc$10,000
First Strike Baseball Club$5,000
MidCoast Youth Center and Skatepark$5,000
Dempsey Centers For Quality Cancer Care$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Lincoln Home: $25k → 9%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $1k → 9%Hospice of Southern Maine: $20k → 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $5k → 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $5k → 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $3k → 7%Maine Needs Inc: $20k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Herbert E Tyler and Grace M Tyler Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in ME; by stated purpose, 93%.

Herbert E Tyler and Grace M Tyler Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$606k · 8 repeat orgs$259k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +42% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$606k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+42%

Still filing today

88%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MH
    Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital
    4× · 2020–2023 · $311k · revenue +69%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    5× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +50%
  • M
    MaineHealth
    2× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • CL
    Central Lincoln County YMCA
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • TL
    The Lincoln Home
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • PB
    Pen Bay Christian School
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
2
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
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
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen

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…

Health
5
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

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…

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6
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

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.

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7
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
8
Lakewood Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood

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.

Health
9
Community Health and Nursing Services

Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.

Health
10
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
11
Sebasticook Valley Health Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hosp

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…

Health
12
Southern Maine Health Care

Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; 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.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $311,000 · HealthMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy HospitalMaineHealth: $40,000 · HealthMaineHealth+5 more: $22,500 · Health+5 moreGood Shepherd Food Bank: $210,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food BankCentral Lincoln County YMCA: $50,000 · OtherCentral Lincoln C…Pen Bay Christian School: $25,000 · OtherPen Bay Christian…Footprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry: $20,000 · OtherFootprints Inc Fo…St Joseph School: $10,000 · OtherSt Joseph SchoolHoly Cross School: $5,900 · OtherFIRST STRIKE BASEBALL CLUB: $5,000 · OtherMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $5,000 · Other+9 more: $12,620 · Other+9 moreThe Lincoln Home: $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Lincol…Hospice of Southern Maine: $20,000 · Human ServicesHospice of…Maine Needs Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesMaine Need…Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $13,500 · Human ServicesSouthern M…SCARBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $29,000 · EducationHONOR FLIGHT NEW ENGLAND INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSweet Paws Rescue Inc: $20,000 · Animals
Health$373,500Food & Nutrition$210,000Other$133,520Human Services$78,500Education$29,000Arts & Culture$20,000Animals$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $311,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $210,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMaineHealth: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCARBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $29,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe Lincoln Home: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT NEW ENGLAND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSweet Paws Rescue Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKennebunkport Emergency Medical Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARTIN DE PORRES RESIDENCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBethel Library Association: $750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Saco & Biddeford Savi…Davis Family Foundati…Fisher Charitable Fou…Woodside FoundationVincent B and Barbara…Atlantic Federal Cred…Narragansett Number O…The Apple Lane Founda…Sam L Cohen FoundationStephen & Tabitha Kin…
Maine Community Foundation IncME22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Herbert E Tyler and Grace M Tyler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert E Tyler and Grace M Tyler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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