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Homer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$147k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
46%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Homer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$147k20%
FY202313$103k46%
FY202214$80k29%
FY202111$121k27%
FY20206$51k17%
FY201810$61k40%
FY201711$37kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$363kHealth$82kRecreation & Sports$78kHuman Services$26kYouth Development$15kArts & Culture$14kCommunity Improvement$13kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MA
IA
UT
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Homer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated: $223,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont Hill School Inc: $135,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKennebunk Beach Improvement Association: $57,675 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMaineHealth: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFbxo31 Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetSpecial Surfers: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSwimming With a Mission Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWorld of Change: $13,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew England Ski Museum Inc: $10,750 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetThe Woody Foundation Inc dba The Way Forward Foundation: $9,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCross Roads House Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Kelly S Brush Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBridgton Community Center: $5,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurtle Ridge Foundation Inc Miller-White: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCamp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBridgton Academy: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLoon Echo Land Trust Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Help Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLouis T Graves Memorial Public Library: $850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTommy McNamara Charitable Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDartmouth Dragon Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWebhannet Charitable Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKennebunkport Historical Society: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Bauman Family Foundation Inc · The William J J Gordon Family Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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About Homer Family Foundation

How much does Homer Family Foundation give?
Homer Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $146,725 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Homer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (61%), Health (14%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are Homer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated ($223k), Belmont Hill School Inc ($135k), Kennebunk Beach Improvement Association ($58k).
Does Homer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Homer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Homer Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Bauman Family Foundation Inc, The William J J Gordon Family Foundation.
Where is Homer Family Foundation based?
Homer Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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