· Private foundation
Laurence B Flood Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Blue Hill Community Development | $100,000 |
| George Stevens Academy | $35,000 |
| Blue Hill Heritage Trust | $25,000 |
| The Rising Tide Media | $15,000 |
| Ukraine Trust Chain | $12,500 |
| FoodDrop L3C | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | $5,000 |
| Bagaduce River Equine Rescue | $5,000 |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $3,333 |
| MDI Biological Laboratory | $2,000 |
| Noble and Greenough School | $1,000 |
| Sedgwick Brooklin Historical Society | $1,000 |
| Blue Hill Public Library | $1,000 |
| The Land Institute | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
- GSGeorge Stevens Academy6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +1%
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +19%
- BRBagaduce River Equine Rescue6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +203%
Funded once
- HIHEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%
- COCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +15%
- EEBHVIAone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
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…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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…
To improve human health by discovering fundamental mechanisms of tissue repair, aging and regeneration, translating our discoveries for the benefit of medicine and society, and developing the next generation of scientific leaders.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Hill Heritage Trust and the most unlike its peers is Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana. 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 27 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 66 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 George Stevens Academy ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds UKRAINE TRUSTCHAIN ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Bagaduce River Equine Rescue ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds RISING TIDE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Partners for World Health ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Harvest International ↗
- Who funds BEACON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SEDGWICK-BROOKLIN 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Prior Family Foundation · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · Boston Foundation Inc · Taber Foundation-Tr · Charlotte's Web · The Gb Knecht Foundation · Lojo Foundation · The Martin Foundation · The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc · Francis T & Louis T Nichols 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 Laurence B Flood Foundation Inc 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% 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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