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Maple Grove Foundation at a glance

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Maple Grove Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Environment$39kArts & Culture$34kCivil Rights$11kFood & Nutrition$10kPhilanthropy$9kEducation$8kHuman Services$8kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$84k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROPUBLICA$5,500
WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$4,500
WJFF$4,000
Individual grant recipient$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
Individual grant recipient$2,000
MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER$2,000
COASTAL RIVERS CONSERVATION TRUST$2,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $1k → 20%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $1k → 17%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

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MD
NC
DC
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 28 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
21

Total granted

$103k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+26%

Still filing today

79%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WT
    WALDO THEATRE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +135%
  • HT
    Hudson Taconic Lands Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +125%
  • FA
    FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • FO
    Finding Our Voicesgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +46%
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
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
2
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
3
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
4
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
5
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
8
Maine Conservation Alliance

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…

Environment
9
Rogue Climate

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 &…

Education
10
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
11
Wildcoast

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.…

Environment
12
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine People's Resource Center; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
28/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEEDS: $10,000 · OtherSEEDSIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCREW: $4,000 · OtherCREWTWIN VILLAGES FOODBANK FARM: $3,500 · OtherYOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN: $3,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherHEARTY ROOTS INC: $5,000 · OtherHEARTY ROOTS INC+30 more: $34,600 · Other+30 moreCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $7,500 · EnvironmentCoastal Rivers Conserv…Hudson Taconic Lands Inc: $5,500 · EnvironmentHudson Taconic Lands I…FRIENDS OF HOG ISLAND AKA FOHI: $4,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HOG ISLAND …THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL…NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF AB…Maine Island Trail Association: $2,000 · EnvironmentMaine Island Trail Ass…Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,500 · EnvironmentBIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,500 · Environment+5 more: $4,000 · Environment+5 moreWALDO THEATRE INC: $6,250 · Arts & CultureWALDO THEATRE INCPRO PUBLICA INC: $5,500 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INCFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE …MEDIA ALLIANCE INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureMEDIA ALLIANCE INCWAMC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureWAMCRADIO CATSKILL WJFF: $4,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO CATSKILL WJFF+3 more: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+3 moreWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5,000 · EducationIsland Institute: $3,500 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationSPOTLIGHT PA: $500 · EducationWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 · PhilanthropyOUT Maine: $500 · PhilanthropyMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $3,500 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $2,500 · Civil RightsIFWHENHOW: $1,000 · Civil RightsElevated Access Inc: $500 · Civil RightsCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $3,500 · Food & NutritionMaine Farmland Trust: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$68,850Environment$32,500Arts & Culture$31,750Education$11,000Philanthropy$8,500Civil Rights$7,500Food & Nutrition$6,500

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 budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWALDO THEATRE INC: $6,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHudson Taconic Lands Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTY ROOTS INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOG ISLAND AKA FOHI: $4,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMEDIA ALLIANCE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWAMC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFinding Our Voices: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWild Seed Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADIRONDACK EXPLORER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIFWHENHOW: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidcoast Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUT Maine: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Rights Defense Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPOTLIGHT PA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Onion FoundationReny Charitable Found…Horizon Foundation IncElmina B Sewall Found…The Ford FoundationThe Nature ConservancyTides FoundationQuimby Family Foundat…Davis Conservation Fo…Institute for Nonprof…The Miami Foundation …
Maine Community Foundation IncME30.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Maple Grove Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maple Grove Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Catamount Trail Association: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 72 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home