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Maine Community Foundation Inc

The Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine.

$68M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,161
Grants FY2024still arriving
39
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$94MEducation$45MArts & Culture$31MHealth$28MHuman Services$17MFood & Nutrition$16MCommunity Improvement$11MHousing & Shelter$11MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1161 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1,161 grants below total $57,612,395, the rows itemized in this filing. The $68,027,345 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,414,950 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k195 grants · $1.4M
  • $10k–50k652 grants · $12M
  • $50k–250k278 grants · $26M
  • $250k+36 grants · $18M
$17,500
Median grant
39
States reached
$808M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maine Farmland Trust$2,487,900
Northeastern University$1,733,145
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$801,573
First Nations Development Institute$600,000
The Nature Conservancy$558,590
Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness NPC$554,000
Maine Audubon Society$546,055
Sustainable Markets Foundation$536,000
Mitchell Institute$522,030
Opera House Arts$520,500
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences$519,560
Bement School Inc$398,947
EarthJustice$395,000
Maine Public$387,995
Northern Forest Center$387,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $13.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Beaver Institute Inc: $160k → 12%Kennett Area Community Service: $100k → 6%Springboard to Opportunities: $185k → 23%Bath Area Family YMCA: $205k → 9%The River Fund Maine: $462k → 13%Springboard to Opportunities: $140k → 23%Bath Area Family YMCA: $158k → 9%William Way LGBT Community Center: $100k → 22%Penobscot Bay YMCA: $108k → 11%Albiston Foundation: $350k → 14%Central Lincoln County YMCA: $96k → 9%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $260k → 11%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $255k → 11%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $242k → 11%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $230k → 11%Somali Bantu Community Lewiston of Maine: $155k → 13%Cultivating Balance: $100k → 7%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $224k → 11%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $196k → 11%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $257k → 12%Somali Bantu Community Lewiston of Maine: $107k → 13%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $157k → 11%New Beginnings Inc: $97k → 13%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $130k → 11%Area Interfaith Outreach: $107k → 11%Opiate-Free Island Partnership Inc: $104k → 11%The Recompense Fund: $791k → 7%St George Community Development Corporation: $284k → 11%Home Resources of Maine Inc: $130k → 12%Downeast Community Partners: $183k → 11%Downeast Community Partners: $123k → 11%Downeast Community Partners: $100k → 11%Next Step Domestic Violence Project: $100k → 11%Center for Regional Prosperity: $106k → 7%Preble Street: $338k → 7%Preble Street: $300k → 7%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $256k → 7%Preble Street: $235k → 7%Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition: $211k → 7%Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition: $188k → 7%Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition: $185k → 7%Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition: $159k → 7%Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition: $151k → 7%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $123k → 7%Presente Maine: $120k → 7%ProsperityME: $107k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $112k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $102k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$281M · 1463 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

1463 repeat relationships: 896 still active in FY2024, 567 since wound down; 153 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1463
349

Total granted

$281M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+5%

Still filing today

79%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MF
    Maine Farmland Trust
    8× · 2017–2024 · $23M · revenue +134% · 61% of their budget
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +106%
  • WS
    Worthington Scholarship Foundation
    2× · 2019–2020 · $4.5M · revenue ×15

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RIVER FUND MAINEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $462k · revenue +114%
  • SM
    Saddleback Mountain Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -100%
  • CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +232%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
2
Kennebunk Land Trust

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

Environment
3
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
4
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative

The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…

Animals
5
Piscataquog Land Conservancy

The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…

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6
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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7
Maine Film Center

To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.

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8
The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc

To promote the protection and restoration of wetlands and related aquatic resources, to apply sound science to wetland management, and to provide training, education, and capacity building for our members and the public.

Environment
9
Manufacturers Association of Maine

The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.

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10
Maine Medical Association

To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.

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11
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

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12
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; the most unlike its peers is New Sandy River and Rangeley Lake Railroad. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

1548 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1548 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

147
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
534
Early backer (in before they grew)
1503/1548
Grantees still filing
1068/1548
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,398,817 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage…Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $2,220,712 · EnvironmentCoastal Rivers Conse…Forest Society of Maine: $2,055,501 · EnvironmentForest Society of Ma…Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $1,301,605 · EnvironmentDEFEND OUR HEALTH: $1,188,387 · Environment+37 more: $21,476,590 · Environment+37 moreMaine Farmland Trust: $22,791,187 · Food & NutritionMaine Farmland Tr…Good Shepherd Food Bank: $3,125,563 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Foo…MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $1,846,770 · Food & NutritionMAINE ORGANIC FAR…+2 more: $1,168,298 · Food & NutritionFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $3,035,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,510,130 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $2,455,650 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $3,512,668 · OtherMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $2,551,858 · Other+80 more: $56,675,723 · Other+80 moreUniversity of Maine Foundation: $2,589,881 · EducationUniversity…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,833,145 · EducationNORTHEASTE…Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance: $1,487,593 · EducationMaine Math…PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $1,071,658 · EducationPRESIDENT …Island Institute: $1,040,601 · EducationIsland Ins…Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $977,950 · EducationSenator Ge…The Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges: $951,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $816,500 · EducationHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $769,830 · EducationMaine Huts & Trails: $710,650 · EducationEducate Maine: $661,741 · Education+12 more: $4,930,686 · Education+12 moreTHE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH: $3,873,000 · HealthWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC: $1,785,308 · HealthMaineHealth: $1,774,226 · HealthHANLEY CENTER FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION: $976,246 · HealthHEALTHY ACADIA: $856,481 · HealthMILESTONE RECOVERY: $813,500 · HealthCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER: $773,520 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $744,850 · HealthSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC: $743,517 · HealthCastine Community Hospital: $655,630 · HealthFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC: $616,250 · Health+4 more: $1,532,630 · HealthPREBLE STREET: $1,782,783 · Human ServicesHomeworthy: $1,694,900 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $1,036,172 · Human ServicesTHE RECOMPENSE FUND: $830,451 · Human ServicesDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $701,982 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Maine: $696,197 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $564,491 · Human ServicesSomali Bantu Community Association of Maine: $545,812 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER FUND MAINE: $462,456 · Human ServicesSTGEORGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $458,275 · Human ServicesGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $458,200 · Human ServicesBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $422,100 · Human Services+8 more: $3,007,082 · Human ServicesWorthington Scholarship Foundation: $4,497,870 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1,777,224 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $1,725,561 · PhilanthropyWolfe's Neck Farm Foundation: $988,638 · PhilanthropyJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $764,276 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC: $715,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Inc: $574,102 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $537,500 · PhilanthropyOUT Maine: $440,694 · Philanthropy+1 more: $395,715 · Philanthropy
Environment$34,641,612Food & Nutrition$28,931,818Other$70,741,529Education$17,841,235Health$15,145,158Human Services$12,660,901Philanthropy$12,416,580

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $22,791,187 over 8y, 61% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,398,817 over 8y, 15% of budgetWorthington Scholarship Foundation: $4,497,870 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTHE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH: $3,873,000 over 5y, 98% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $3,512,668 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $3,125,563 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $3,035,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $2,589,881 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $2,551,858 over 8y, 73% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,510,130 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $2,220,712 over 8y, 13% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $2,193,230 over 8y, 26% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,173,116 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $2,055,501 over 8y, 18% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $1,846,770 over 8y, 14% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,833,145 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC: $1,785,308 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $1,782,783 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMaineHealth: $1,774,226 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $1,725,561 over 8y, 11% of budgetHomeworthy: $1,694,900 over 8y, 15% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $1,507,650 over 8y, 37% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $1,504,932 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetMaine Mathematics & Science Alliance: $1,487,593 over 6y, 13% of budgetDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION: $1,410,566 over 8y, 21% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $1,344,184 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $1,301,605 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetGREAT POND MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION TR: $1,237,299 over 8y, 72% of budgetDEFEND OUR HEALTH: $1,188,387 over 8y, 27% of budgetKetcha Outdoors: $1,175,056 over 2y, 31% of budgetMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory: $1,174,781 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetThe Genesis Fund: $1,167,750 over 6y, 15% of budgetOPERA HOUSE ARTS: $1,163,852 over 8y, 36% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $1,131,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $1,122,450 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN: $1,081,201 over 8y, 10% of budgetMaine Audubon Society: $1,074,074 over 8y, 13% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $1,071,658 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIsland Institute: $1,040,601 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $1,036,172 over 7y, 45% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $996,050 over 8y, 30% of budgetWolfe's Neck Farm Foundation: $988,638 over 7y, 12% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $988,219 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $977,950 over 8y, 13% of budgetHANLEY CENTER FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION: $976,246 over 4y, 49% of budgetThe Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges: $951,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $943,575 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetBlue Deer Center: $936,000 over 8y, 56% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds Worthington Scholarship Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Forest Society of Maine ↗
  • Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Homeworthy ↗
  • Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance ↗
  • Who funds DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
  • Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREAT POND MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION TR ↗
  • Who funds DEFEND OUR HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Ketcha Outdoors ↗
  • Who funds Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory ↗
  • Who funds The Genesis Fund ↗
  • Who funds OPERA HOUSE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Elmina B Sewall Found…Onion FoundationDavis Family Foundati…John T Gorman Foundat…Fisher Charitable Fou…Sam L Cohen FoundationBangor Savings Bank F…Maine Health Access F…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Simmons Foundation - …Quimby Family Foundat…
Elmina B Sewall FoundationME244.9× affinity320 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Quimby Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maine Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Bluehub Capital Inc: 32% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Silent Spring Institute Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
58report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home