· Private foundation
Maple Grove Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROPUBLICA | $5,500 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| WJFF | $4,000 |
| CREW | $4,000 |
| YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN | $3,250 |
| MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION | $3,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $3,000 |
| THE WALDO THEATER | $2,750 |
| SEEDS | $2,500 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS | $2,500 |
| ARCHIVEORG | $2,000 |
| FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE | $2,000 |
| INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS | $2,000 |
| MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
28 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- WTWALDO THEATRE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +135%
- HTHudson Taconic Lands Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +125%
- FAFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
- GIGuttmacher Institute Incone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -20%
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.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Maine Conservation Alliance envisions a Maine where nature and people thrive through an inclusive, just democracy, a sustainable economy, and equitable access to nature's benefits - healthy climate, lands, air, and waters. We bring people…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine People's Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Guttmacher Institute 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 72 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 WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds WALDO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Taconic Lands Inc ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTY ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOG ISLAND AKA FOHI ↗
- Who funds MEDIA ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds RADIO CATSKILL WJFF ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
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 · Onion Foundation · Reny Charitable Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Tides Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Institute for Nonprofit News · The Miami 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 Maple Grove 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.
- Catamount Trail Association — 10% 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.