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Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn

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.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$490kHuman Services$385kFood & Nutrition$130kAnimals$125kHousing & Shelter$88kScience & Tech$88kEducation$85kYouth Development$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE HEALTH LINCOLN HOSPITAL$50,000
HEALTHY LINCOLN COUNTY$25,000
BOOTHBAY SEA AND SCIENCE CENTER$15,000
BOOTHBAY REGION DISTRICT NURSING INC$12,500
LINCOLN COUNTY TELEVISION$10,000
MIDCOAST HUMANE$10,000
HEARTY ROOTS$10,000
TWIN VILLAGES FOODBANK FARM$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK$10,000
MAINE COAST FISHERMEN'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
WAYFINDER SCHOOLS$8,000
DA PONTE STRING QUARTET FDN$5,000
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES$5,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE$5,000
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 (FY19–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 7%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $8k → 11%SWEETSER: $3k → 9%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $8k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $6k → 11%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%SWEETSER: $5k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE: $5k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $3k → 7%ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $15k → 9%ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $15k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $7k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $5k → 9%COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL: $5k → 9%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 30 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
24

Total granted

$1.4M
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+30%

Still filing today

90%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther

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

  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region
    3× · 2019–2021 · $153k · revenue +33%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    6× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +79%
  • MH
    MIDCOAST HUMANE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • L
    LINCOLNHEALTH
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESOURCE COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

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
Kennebunk Land Trust

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

Environment
2
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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3
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.

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4
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
5
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

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

Environment
6
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
7
Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

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8
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
9
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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10
LincolnHealth Medical Partners Inc

The Corporation operates for the purpose of providing medical & health services, including primary & specialized care, through licensed physicians & other health professionals primarily in Lincoln County, Maine. Effective February 5, 2023…

Health
11
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
12
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc

Loon Echo Land Trust protects land in the northern Sebago Lake region to conserve its natural resources and character for future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Maine and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln County Television. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyNew England Fisheries Susta…Cemetery Operations & Maint…Independent Schools and Ear…Transitional Housing & Reco…Food Pantries and Hunger Re…Youth Sports ProgramsRegional Chambers of Commer…Emergency Medical & Fire Se…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%3%<5yr13%6%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%3%<5yr13%8%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr16%48%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/42
the rest of the field
10%
361/3,734

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

41 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. 41 of the 60 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LincolnHealth Group — $200,000 · OtherLincolnHealth GroupYMCA — $160,000 · OtherYMCAYoung Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region — $153,000 · OtherYoung Men's Christian Association Boothbay RegionBOOTHBAY REGION DISTRICT NURSING INC — $65,000 · OtherBOOTHBAY REGION DISTRICT NURSING INCLINCOLNHEALTH — $55,000 · OtherMAINE HEALTH LINCOLN HOSPITAL — $50,000 · OtherJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc — $40,000 · Other+34 more — $375,909 · Other+34 moreWAYFINDER SCHOOLS — $41,500 · Human ServicesWAYFINDER…ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY — $30,000 · Human ServicesELDERCARE…Catholic Charities Maine — $27,500 · Human ServicesCatholic …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $23,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL — $17,011 · Human ServicesCOASTAL K…Sweetser — $7,500 · Human ServicesMedical Care Development Inc — $85,000 · HealthLINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL INC — $10,000 · HealthRobbie Foundation — $7,500 · HealthLifeFlight Foundation — $5,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY DENTAL — $5,000 · HealthGood Shepherd Food Bank — $100,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Farmland Trust — $5,000 · Food & NutritionMIDCOAST HUMANE — $100,000 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · AnimalsBOOTHBAY SEA AND SCIENCE CENTER — $77,500 · EducationBOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN — $15,000 · EducationMIDCOAST LITERACY — $5,000 · EducationHEARTY ROOTS INC — $80,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,098,909Human Services$146,511Health$112,500Food & Nutrition$105,000Animals$105,000Education$97,500Youth Development$80,000

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 budgetYoung Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region — $153,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMIDCOAST HUMANE — $100,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMedical Care Development Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTY ROOTS INC — $80,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetBOOTHBAY SEA AND SCIENCE CENTER — $77,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetLINCOLNHEALTH — $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAYFINDER SCHOOLS — $41,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMidcoast Conservancy — $30,305 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBoothbay Region Housing Trust — $30,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetSTEPPING STONE HOUSING INC — $30,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine — $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL — $17,011 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoothbay Region Land Trust — $15,524 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHIP INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN — $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY TELEVISION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES OF MIDCOAST MAINE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVolunteers of America Northern New England — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSweetser — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRobbie Foundation — $7,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMIDCOAST LITERACY — $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOOTHBAY REGION HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $4,480 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation — $3,800 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CARPENTERS BOAT SHOP — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE — $1,000 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…Bangor Savings Bank F…Reny Charitable Found…Simmons Foundation - …Fisher Charitable Fou…Davis Family Foundati…Mildred H McEvoy Foun…Sam L Cohen FoundationStephen & Tabitha Kin…Elmina B Sewall Found…Burns Family Foundati…Horizon Foundation Inc
Maine Community Foundation IncME64.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Reny Charitable Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Burns Family Foundation Inc · Horizon Foundation 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 Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 60 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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