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Morse Hill Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JP MORGAN CHARITABLE GIVING FUND | $90,000 |
| UBS DONOR ADVISED FUND | $90,000 |
| Boston Area Rape Crisis Center | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF YARMOUTH | $10,000 |
| MAINE BOYS TO MEN | $10,000 |
| KID'S FIRST CENTER | $10,000 |
| MAINE ASSOCIATION OF NEW AMERICANS | $10,000 |
| TIP OF GREATER PORTLAND | $10,000 |
| PROSPERITY ME | $10,000 |
| MAINE INITIATIVES | $10,000 |
| SAD DADS CLUB | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
47 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 6 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- EFEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN6× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +112%
- KFKIDS FIRST CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +7%
- HAHERONFIELD ACADEMY6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- MBMAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCAREone grant, 2023 · $15k
- YCYarmouth Cares About Neighborsone grant, 2024 · $13k
- MAMaine Association for New Americansone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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 Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
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…
MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
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.
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…
Our mission is to strengthen the leadership, voice, and organizational effectiveness of our state's nonprofit organizations so they can better enrich the quality of community and personal life in Maine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Hewnoaks Artist Colony. 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 27 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 100 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 EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST CENTER ↗
- Who funds COOKING FOR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HERONFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Friends of The Music Hall ↗
- Who funds FINAL EXIT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds Maine Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds COMMONSPACE ↗
- Who funds CODE GREEN CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE BOYS TO MEN ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds SAD DADS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
- Who funds Maine Association for New Americans ↗
- Who funds GROWING ROUTES ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
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 · Sam L Cohen Foundation · United Way Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Onion Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank
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 Morse Hill Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
- Safe Passage Inc — 55% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% 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.
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