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Libra Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $240k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $391k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINELAND FARMS INC | $4,400,000 |
| FOXCROFT ACADEMY | $158,523 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| MAINEHEALTH | $57,948 |
| PRESQUE ISLE COMMUNITY RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC | $50,000 |
| FORT KENT OUTDOOR CENTER | $50,000 |
| FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY | $20,000 |
| PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PEREGRINE CORPORATION DBA STRIVE | $10,000 |
| MAINE PUBLIC | $10,000 |
| ISLAND INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| PROSPERITYME | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
89 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 8 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- PFPINELAND FARMS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $32M · revenue +17% · 58% of their budget
- MMaineHealth3× · 2017–2019 · $4.1M · revenue +196%
- FAFOXCROFT ACADEMY TRUSTEES OF7× · 2018–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +17%
Funded once
SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $243k · revenue +28%- TFThe Foundation for Maine's Community Collegesone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -70%
- NLNORTHERN LIGHT CA DEAN HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $100k
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 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…
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
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 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.
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…
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
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.
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Libra Future Fund Inc. 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
143 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. 143 of the 187 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 PINELAND FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth Services ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds FOXCROFT ACADEMY TRUSTEES OF ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds NORDIC HERITAGE SKI CLUB ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LIBRA FUTURE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Mid Coast Hospital ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds THE CROMWELL CENTER FOR DISABILITIES AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds Maine Association of Nonprofits ↗
- Who funds WOOD ISLAND LIFE SAVING STATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds PRESQUE ISLE COMMUNITY RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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 · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Onion Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Saco & Biddeford Savings 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 Libra Foundation 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.
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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