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Marr-Anderson Family Foundation at a glance

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Marr-Anderson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$681k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$354k
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.

Health$2.0MEducation$638kYouth Development$249kHuman Services$195kScience & Tech$192kFood & Nutrition$50kEnvironment$31kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $265k
  • $250k+1 grant · $354k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maine Medical Center$353,858
Brigham & Women's Hospital$31,144
Dempsey Centers for Quality Cancer Care$30,299
Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Inst$20,468
Cheverus High School$20,108
Boys & Girls Club$20,000
Friends of River Valley$20,000
Make-A-Wish Foundation$17,150
University of Maine Foundation$14,500
University of Southern Maine Foundation$10,640
Mass General$10,443
Junior Achievement of Maine$10,000
Project Lift$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries$10,000
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 (FY21–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Grahamtastic Connection: $10k → 9%Sweetser: $14k → 9%Wayfinder Schools: $5k → 11%Wayfinder Schools: $5k → 11%Charity Water: $500 → 17%Impact100 Martin: $1k → 10%Wayfinder Schools: $5k → 11%SurvivingBreastCancerorg: $3k → 16%SurvivingBreastCancerorg: $3k → 16%SurvivingBreastCancerorg: $3k → 16%SurvivingBreastCancerorg: $3k → 16%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Inst: $21k → 7%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Inst: $20k → 7%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Inst: $10k → 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

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
SC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Marr-Anderson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in ME; by stated purpose, 83%.

Marr-Anderson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 46 repeat orgs$449k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
52

Total granted

$2.9M
$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+18%

Still filing today

61%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    5× · 2020–2024 · $766k · revenue +87%
  • MC
    MORRISON CENTER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $221k · revenue +60%
  • SP
    SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • MH
    Maine Health Children's Hospital PICU
    one grant, 2023 · $151k
  • DC
    Dempsey Center (Central Maine Medical Center)
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • NY
    NORTH YARMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -75%
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
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
University of New England

The University of New England prepares students to thrive in a rapidly-changing world and, in so doing, to improve the health of people, communities, and our planet.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Northeastern University
Education
9
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
10
Bryant University

Bryant University's mission is to educate and inspire students to discover their passion and become innovative leaders with character around the world.

Education
11
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
12
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerson College; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 107 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
50/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $277,324 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDGulf of Maine Research Center: $170,840 · OtherGulf of Maine Research CenterCHEVERUS HIGH SCHOOL: $164,987 · OtherCHEVERUS HIGH SCHOOLMaine Health Children's Hospital PICU: $150,527 · OtherMaine Health Children's Hospital PICUMaine Behavioral Health: $108,258 · OtherMaine Behavioral HealthBoys & Girls Club: $64,915 · OtherMake-A-Wish Foundation: $61,150 · OtherMake-A-Wish: $60,860 · Other+49 more: $583,939 · Other+49 moreMaineHealth: $765,606 · HealthMaineHealthDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care: $230,318 · HealthDempsey Center for Quality Cancer CareMORRISON CENTER: $220,733 · HealthMORRISON CENTER+8 more: $69,000 · Health+8 moreSAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · EducationUniversity of Maine Foundation: $34,700 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $34,076 · EducationFRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION: $25,161 · EducationWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $16,200 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $10,000 · EducationFalmouth Memorial Library Association: $10,000 · Education+15 more: $57,000 · EducationOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $51,024 · Human ServicesWAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $15,402 · Human ServicesSweetser: $14,200 · Human ServicesSURVIVINGBREASTCANCERORG: $12,090 · Human ServicesGrahamtastic Connection: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,600 · Human ServicesPROJECT LIFT INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen Center Inc: $20,365 · Youth DevelopmentHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $35,239 · EnvironmentEcology Education Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,070 · EnvironmentUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $31,920 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $1,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,642,800Health$1,285,657Education$252,137Human Services$104,316Youth Development$70,365Environment$56,309Philanthropy$34,420

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 budgetMaineHealth: $765,606 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care: $230,318 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMORRISON CENTER: $220,733 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $51,024 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT LIFT INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSpurwink Services Inc: $35,263 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $35,239 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $34,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $34,076 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $31,920 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION: $25,161 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF RIVER VALLEY: $25,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE KITA CENTERINC: $25,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $20,365 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $16,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $15,432 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $15,402 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH YARMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSweetser: $14,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURVIVINGBREASTCANCERORG: $12,090 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $10,549 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEcology Education Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMaineHealth Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetARTVAN: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGrahamtastic Connection: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFalmouth Memorial Library Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH'S HOUSE OF MAINE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Cancer Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDCOAST LITERACY: $4,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,700 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care ↗
  • Who funds MORRISON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds Spurwink Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF RIVER VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds THE KITA CENTERINC ↗
  • Who funds My Place Teen Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH YARMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Sweetser ↗

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 Family Foundati…Sam L Cohen FoundationSaco & Biddeford Savi…Bangor Savings Bank F…United Way IncSimmons Foundation - …John T Gorman Foundat…Elmina B Sewall Found…Vincent B and Barbara…Virginia Hodgkins Som…Fisher Charitable Fou…
Maine Community Foundation IncME49.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable 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 Marr-Anderson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marr-Anderson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Western New England University: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 107 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$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