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Maine Timberlands Charitable Trust Co Linda S Dalby Et Al Trustees

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$410k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$2.8MEducation$476kRecreation & Sports$311kAnimals$45kYouth Development$40kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $414k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $408k
  • $250k+1 grant · $410k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO$410,000
Individual grant recipient$110,000
NORTHERN FOREST CENTER$100,000
Individual grant recipient$70,000
Individual grant recipient$68,000
HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE$60,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
DOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST$40,000
MAINE HUTS AND TRAILS$40,000
NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION$35,000
MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS$30,000
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB$30,000
CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES$30,000
BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST$30,000
LAND CAN$20,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW ENGLAND FOREST FOUNDATION: $70k → 8%SPATIAL INFORMATICS GROUP NATURAL ASSETS: $70k → 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF MAINE: $49k → 7%NORTHERN FOREST CENTER: $100k → 7%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $35k → 9%OUR CLIMATE COMMON: $40k → 9%THE MAINE TREE FOUNDATION: $145k → 12%CAMP SUSAN CURTIS: $40k → 13%HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE: $60k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $410k → 15%DOWNEAST LAKE LAND TRUST: $145k → 16%NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION: $70k → 8%NORTHERN FOREST: $50k → 7%MAINE TREE: $110k → 12%U MAINE SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOUCES: $312k → 15%DOWNEAST LAKE LAND TRUST: $75k → 16%NEW ENGLAND FOREST FOUNDATION: $70k → 8%NORTHERN FOREST CENTER: $40k → 7%MAINE TREE FOUNDATION: $70k → 12%UMO W GEO LAB: $175k → 15%DOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST: $40k → 16%NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION: $70k → 8%MAINE SUMMER CAMPS: $68k → 7%MAINE TREE: $60k → 12%UMAINE SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOURCES: $169k → 15%NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%MAINE SUMMER CAMPS: $40k → 7%MAINE TREE FOUNDATION: $60k → 12%UMAINE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY: $155k → 15%NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY: $50k → 8%MAINE TREE: $50k → 12%PINETREE STATE 4H CLUB: $67k → 15%NEW ENGLAND FOREST: $40k → 8%SMALL WOODLAND OWNERS ASSOC OF MAINE: $43k → 12%UMAINE SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOURCES: $56k → 15%NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION: $35k → 8%UMAINE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY: $50k → 15%MAINE HUTS AND TRAILS: $103k → 14%PINE TREE STATE 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%NORTHERN FOREST CENTER: $124k → 7%MAINE HUTS AND TRAILS: $43k → 14%UMAINE SCHOOL OF NATURAL: $165k → 15%MAINE AUDOBON: $50k → 7%MAINE HUTS AND TRAILS: $40k → 14%UMAINE MAINE 4H: $40k → 15%LAND CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE: $45k → 7%MAINE HUTS AND TRAILS: $35k → 14%FOREST SOCIETY OF MAINE: $50k → 15%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.
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 22 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$2.7M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+45%

Still filing today

64%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $549k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $365k · revenue +218%
  • MT
    MAINE TREE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $275k · revenue +114% · 40% of their budget
  • DL
    DOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST
    3× · 2019–2025 · $260k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • UM
    U MAINE SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOUCES
    one grant, 2019 · $312k
  • US
    UMAINE SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOURCES
    one grant, 2022 · $224k
  • US
    UMAINE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $205k
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
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
3
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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4
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
5
Great Mountain Forest Corporation
Philanthropy
6
Monhegan Associates Inc

The monhegan associates is a land trust dedicated to the ongoing preservation of the natural wild beauty and biotic communities of more than 350 acres of wildlands on monhegan island in maine.

Environment
7
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
8
Somerset Woods Trustees

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

Environment
9
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…

—
10
Lakes Region Conservation Trust

The mission of the Organization is the conservation of the natural resources of the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, the preservation of wildlife habitat, the stewardship of lands that define the character of the region and its quality of…

Environment
11
Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc

To protect and conserve land and traditional land uses including farming, recreation, significant habitats, scenery, and water resources for the benefit of the public. The organization facilitates community-based conservation.

Environment
12
Boothbay Region Land Trust

To conserve for the public benefit natural habitat, scenic beauty, and working land of the Boothbay region of Maine by providing stewardship, public access, and environmental programs.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downeast Lakes Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Our Climate Common. 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 57 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $410,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCU MAINE SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOUCES: $311,941 · OtherU MAINE SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOUCESUMAINE SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOURCES: $224,000 · OtherUMAINE SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOURCESIndividual grant recipient: $220,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUMAINE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY: $205,000 · OtherUMAINE SCHOOL OF FORESTRYIndividual grant recipient: $190,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUMAINE SCHOOL OF NATURAL: $165,140 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $160,000 · OtherNORTHERN FOREST CENTER: $124,000 · Other+26 more: $988,696 · Other+26 moreNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $365,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATIO…MAINE TREE FOUNDATION: $275,000 · EnvironmentMAINE TREE FOUNDATIONDOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST: $260,000 · EnvironmentDOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUSTAppalachian Mountain Club: $190,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain ClubForest Society of Maine: $115,000 · EnvironmentForest Society of Maine+7 more: $196,300 · Environment+7 moreMaine Huts & Trails: $220,500 · EducationNorthern Forest Center Inc: $140,000 · EducationHIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE: $155,000 · Recreation & SportsMERRYSPRING INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES: $50,000 · AnimalsDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION: $25,000 · AnimalsGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10,000 · AnimalsMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Food & NutritionMAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,173,777Environment$1,401,300Education$360,500Recreation & Sports$185,000Animals$85,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Community Improvement$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $365,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMAINE TREE FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetDOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST: $260,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetMaine Huts & Trails: $220,500 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $190,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE: $155,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc: $140,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $115,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES: $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSmall Woodland Owners Association of Maine: $42,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetOUR CLIMATE COMMON: $40,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMERRYSPRING INC: $30,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetMaine Appalachian Trail Club: $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetViles Arboretum: $30,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST INC: $23,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLand Conservation Assistance Network: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMaine Audubon Society: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE TREE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Maine Huts & Trails ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Northern Forest Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Forest Society of Maine ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine ↗
  • Who funds OUR CLIMATE COMMON ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MERRYSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Maine Appalachian Trail Club ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Davis Conservation Fo…Onion FoundationElmina B Sewall Found…Quimby Family Foundat…John Sage FoundationFrench Fdn Tr UdeclHorizon Foundation IncBangor Savings Bank F…Fidelity FoundationFields Pond Foundatio…Morton-Kelly Charitab…
Maine Community Foundation IncME38.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · John Sage Foundation · French Fdn Tr Udecl · Horizon Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust

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 Timberlands Charitable Trust Co Linda S Dalby Et Al Trustees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Timberlands Charitable Trust Co Linda S Dalby Et Al Trustees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Maine Timberlands Charitable Trust Co Linda S Dalby Et Al Trustees through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 57 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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