· Private foundation
Leonard and Renee Minsky Charitable Trst
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 $10k18 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| HUSSON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $2,500 |
| FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHAVURAT SHALMON OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $2,000 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| COLLINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS-UMF | $1,000 |
| PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL | $1,000 |
| CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF MAINE | $1,000 |
| BANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $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 (FY19–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- HOHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +63%
- HUHusson University7× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +38%
- SJSt Joseph Healthcare Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- BPBANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +43%
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIB COMM JDCone grant, 2023 · $2k
- USUNION STREET BRICK CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
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…
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…
The University of New England prepares students to thrive in a rapidly-changing world and, in so doing, to improve the health of people, communities, and our planet.
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
Maine Cancer Foundation is dedicated to reducing cancer incidence and mortality rates in Maine. 100% of funds raised by the Foundation are used to benefit the people of Maine.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Jackson Laboratory. 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 39 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) — 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 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.
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 47 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 Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Husson University ↗
- Who funds St Joseph Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC ↗
- Who funds PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Eastern Maine Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGER LEARNING CNTR OF ME ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Cobscook Community Learning Center ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Bangor ↗
- Who funds BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BANGOR LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PEACE ↗
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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Heart of Maine United Way · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · The Oldenburg Family Foundation · Libra Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Fisher Charitable Foundation · The Mimi Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Webber Oil 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 Leonard and Renee Minsky Charitable Trst 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% 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.