· Private foundation
John M Hopwood Irr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $502k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $492k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC | $171,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $87,500 |
| STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM | $68,500 |
| SUSAN L CURTIS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| GIFFORD YOUTH ACTIVITIES CENTER INC | $55,000 |
| BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES | $50,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT | $40,000 |
| WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC | $30,000 |
| ISLAND INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND TRUST | $30,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN | $25,000 |
| THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK | $20,000 |
| PROMISE FUND | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of John M Hopwood Irr’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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 19 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k 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
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +202%- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION9× · 2017–2025 · $868k · revenue +72%
- BLBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences8× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF MAINE SEABIRD ISLANDSone grant, 2018 · $75k
- SFSustainable Forest Futures Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue ×40 · 47% of their budget
- RERENEWABLE ENERGY WILDLIFE INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +190%
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.
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.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
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…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
Our mission is to cultivate the resilience of our coastal pond ecosystems through science, collaboration, and education.
The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suncoast Mental Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 22% 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 13% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 156 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL SUPPORTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERPARKINSON ASSOC OF IRC INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Society of Maine ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Northern Forest Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Acadia Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
- Who funds FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRACTRACKER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER SOCCER ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · The John's Island Foundation Inc · John's Island Community Service League Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · United Way of Indian River County 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 John M Hopwood Irr 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.
- Treasure Coast Community Health Inc — 17% of income from government
- Thrive Irc Inc — 17% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Whole Family Health Center Inc — 0% 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.
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