· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATE | $50,000 |
| FBXO31 FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL SURFERS | $15,000 |
| KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $2,675 |
| THE WOODY FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC | $1,000 |
| WORLD OF CHANGE | $500 |
| LOON ECHO LAND TRUST INC | $500 |
| LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $300 |
| NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM | $250 |
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 (FY17–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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 +84% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2024 · $223k · revenue +35%- BHBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +141%
- KBKENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $58k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- SWSWIMMING WITH A MISSION INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +21%
- ESEaster Seals New Hampshire Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +76%
- CSCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +6%
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.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
NEHSA is a volunteer non-profit organization operated for and by individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to integrate individuals into society through sports and social activities.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
Camp Casco builds community for families affected by childhood cancer in New England through free camps and social opportunities.
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Adaptive Sports at Mount Snow is a volunteer-driven non-profit that provides adaptive sports, recreational opportunities and educational experiences to the Mount Snow community and its visitors throughout the year. Adaptive Sports at Mount…
To bring together those persons interested in the history of Sunapee and in the collection of, preservation and exhibition of documents, photographs and artifacts pertaining to that history.
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…
The organization aims to enhance the traditional character of Boothbay Harbor, with a particular focus on protecting the working waterfront and expanding public access to the water for the benefit of both residents and visitors.
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Webhannet Charitable Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is FBXO31 Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
27 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. 27 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds FBXO31 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL SURFERS ↗
- Who funds SWIMMING WITH A MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds World of Change ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Woody Foundation Inc dba The Way Forward Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cross Roads House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGTON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals New Hampshire Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds TURTLE RIDGE FOUNDATION INC MILLER-WHITE ↗
- Who funds Bridgton Academy ↗
- Who funds Loon Echo Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HELP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds DARTMOUTH DRAGON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOMMY MCNAMARA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEBHANNET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEBUNKPORT 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: 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
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 Homer Family 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.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% 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.