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Hoyt Charitable Foundation F Sherman Hoyt &

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.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$153kEnvironment$32kEducation$12kHealth$11kHuman Services$11kInternational$7kYouth Development$7kAnimals$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$58k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$869k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$12,500
MELPLC FOR LEARNING FROM MAINE$10,000
PLIMOUTH PATUXET MUSEUM$10,000
THE VICTORIA MANSION$6,911
MAINE PUBLIC$5,250
SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY$5,000
FULL COURT PEACE$5,000
DUXBURY BEACH RESERVATION$5,000
GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$5,000
OPERA MAINE$2,000
HOGFISH REGENERATIVE ARTS CSA$1,500
THE RECOMPENSE FUND$1,000
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE$1,000
MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY$1,000
THE GOOD THEATER$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $150 → 9%THE RECOMPENSE FUND: $5k → 7%THE RECOMPENSE FUND: $1k → 7%THE RECOMPENSE FUND: $1k → 7%THE RECOMPENSE FUND: $1k → 7%THE RECOMPENSE FUND: $1k → 7%THE RECOMPENSE FUND: $500 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$265k · 45 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
16

Total granted

$265k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

78%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • Portland Museum of Art
    6× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +7%
  • VM
    Victoria Mansion
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +190%
  • DB
    DUXBURY BEACH RESERVATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • AM
    ADAMS MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -3%
  • HM
    Hogfish Maine
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • CE
    Cape Elizabeth Land Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +262%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
2
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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3
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
4
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
5
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
6
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
7
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture
8
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
9
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
10
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
11
Cape Cod & Islands Association of Realtors Inc

The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…

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12
Newburyport Maritime Society Inc

To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blinknow Foundation a Nj Nonprofit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr14%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr14%34%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
11%
2,516/23,964

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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
31/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Portland Museum of Art — $62,500 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of ArtVictoria Mansion — $24,211 · Arts & CultureVictoria MansionSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $18,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INCPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INCThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc — $11,850 · Arts & CultureThe Metropolitan Opera Guild IncMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $6,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $15,075 · Arts & Culture+10 moreMAINE MARITIME ACADEMY — $18,000 · OtherMAINE MARITIME ACADEMYMELPLC FOR LEARNING FROM MAINE — $10,000 · OtherMELPLC FOR LEARNING FROM MAI…THE CHEBEAGUE ISLAND RECREATION CTR — $8,495 · OtherTHE CHEBEAGUE ISLAND RECREAT…SPACE — $5,250 · OtherSPACEFULL COURT PEACE INC — $5,000 · OtherFULL COURT PEACE INCGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $5,000 · OtherGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTI…CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC — $3,500 · Other+23 more — $19,050 · Other+23 moreDUXBURY BEACH RESERVATION INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentDUXBURY BEAC…HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $3,250 · EnvironmentHURRICANE IS…ROZALIA PROJECT — $2,600 · EnvironmentROZALIA PROJ…WILDLANDS TRUST INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS TR…Maine Coast Heritage Trust — $2,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast …Cape Elizabeth Land Trust — $1,250 · Environment+3 more — $700 · EnvironmentDUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INC — $6,300 · EducationGREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC — $4,000 · EducationWilliams College — $1,000 · EducationIsland Institute — $450 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC — $6,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL-PLYMOUTH INC — $4,000 · HealthISLAND COMMONS RESOURCE CENTER — $750 · HealthTHE RECOMPENSE FUND — $9,500 · Human ServicesBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT — $1,000 · Human Services+1 more — $150 · Human ServicesTHE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE — $6,000 · InternationalPartners for World Health — $600 · International
Arts & Culture$152,636Other$74,295Environment$32,300Education$12,000Health$10,750Human Services$10,650International$6,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPortland Museum of Art — $62,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVictoria Mansion — $24,211 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDUXBURY BEACH RESERVATION INC — $20,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc — $11,850 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RECOMPENSE FUND — $9,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INC — $6,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFULL COURT PEACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOPERA MAINE — $4,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL-PLYMOUTH INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC — $2,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROZALIA PROJECT — $2,600 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLANDS TRUST INC — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD THEATER INC — $2,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADAMS MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChebeague & Cumberland Land Trust — $1,850 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHogfish Maine — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChebeague Island Historical Society — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Telling Room — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM AID INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alden Kindred of America Inc — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE PRESERVATION — $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND COMMONS RESOURCE CENTER — $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT GURNET & BUG LIGHTS INC — $600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPartners for World Health — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPOART — $475 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIsland Institute — $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FORT WILLIAMS PARK — $450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChebeague Island Living History Farm — $200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Davis Family Foundati…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Murray Charitable Tru…The Rice Family Chari…The Redmond Family Fo…Clifford Charitable F…The Safe Family Found…Phineas W Sprague Mem…Albert B Glickman Fam…Raymond Family Founda…Fisher Charitable Fou…
Maine Community Foundation IncME40× affinity20 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Murray Charitable Trust · The Rice Family Charitable Foundation · The Redmond Family Foundation · Clifford Charitable Foundation Inc · The Safe Family Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx18003 · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Raymond Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable 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 Hoyt Charitable Foundation F Sherman Hoyt & 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Duxbury Beach Reservation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The American College of Greece — 2% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Alden Kindred of America Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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