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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.

$270k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$253kHealth$194kInternational$161kHuman Services$157kEducation$100kYouth Development$98kCrime & Legal$81kFood & Nutrition$77kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JP MORGAN CHARITABLE GIVING FUND$90,000
UBS DONOR ADVISED FUND$90,000
MAINE INITIATIVES$10,000
SAD DADS CLUB$10,000
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success: $1k → 7%PEACOCK FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 10%GATHER: $3k → 5%PORT CITY MAKES SPACE: $3k → 5%GATHER: $2k → 5%The Chase Home: $2k → 5%PROSPERITY ME: $10k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $8k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $5k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $5k → 7%The Chase Home: $1k → 5%MAINE NEEDS: $5k → 7%MAYO STREET ARTS: $3k → 7%MAYO STREET ARTS: $3k → 7%Presente Maine: $3k → 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
NH
WA
ID
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AL
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$875k · 47 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
43

Total granted

$875k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+54%

Still filing today

83%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • EF
    EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN
    6× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +112%
  • KF
    KIDS FIRST CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +7%
  • HA
    HERONFIELD ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • MB
    MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • YC
    Yarmouth Cares About Neighbors
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
  • MA
    Maine Association for New Americans
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

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.

Human Services
2
Maine Media College

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…

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3
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
4
Maine Access Points

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.

Health
5
Fork Food Lab

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,…

Environment
6
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.

Science & Tech
7
Maine & Company

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…

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8
Maine Access Immigrant Network

MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.

Human Services
9
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

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,…

Education
10
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
11
Maine Climate Action Now

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…

Environment
12
Maine Association of Nonprofits

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; 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.
04the grantee network

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/75
Grantees still filing
53/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UBS DONOR ADVISED FUND: $90,000 · OtherUBS DONOR ADVISED FUNDKIDS FIRST CENTER: $69,000 · OtherKIDS FIRST CENTERCOOKING FOR COMMUNITY: $53,500 · OtherCOOKING FOR COMMUNITYPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW ENGLAND (PPNNE)): $37,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW ENGLAND (PPNNE))MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $27,500 · OtherMaine Needs Inc: $23,000 · OtherFriends of The Music Hall: $34,000 · OtherGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $28,500 · Other+63 more: $284,560 · Other+63 moreEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $118,000 · InternationalEDUCATION FOR …LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $29,500 · InternationalLITTLE SISTERS…Safe Passage: $17,500 · InternationalSafe Passage+3 more: $7,440 · InternationalNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $90,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHI…Maine Community Foundation Inc: $42,000 · PhilanthropyMaine Commun…SAD DADS CLUB INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropySAD DADS CLU…+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyFINAL EXIT NETWORK INC: $34,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $21,500 · HealthCOMMONSPACE: $17,000 · HealthCODE GREEN CAMPAIGN: $16,000 · HealthBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $11,000 · Health+2 more: $5,000 · HealthHERONFIELD ACADEMY: $51,000 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationNEW HAMPSHIRE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $6,500 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $3,500 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Telling Room: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAINE BOYS TO MEN: $13,500 · Youth DevelopmentGROWING ROUTES: $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $79,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$647,560International$172,440Philanthropy$144,500Health$104,500Education$101,000Youth Development$81,000Crime & Legal$79,000

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 budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $118,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $79,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetKIDS FIRST CENTER: $69,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetCOOKING FOR COMMUNITY: $53,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHERONFIELD ACADEMY: $51,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $38,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetFriends of The Music Hall: $34,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFINAL EXIT NETWORK INC: $34,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $29,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $28,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $23,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $21,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Telling Room: $20,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Passage: $17,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONSPACE: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCODE GREEN CAMPAIGN: $16,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMAINE BOYS TO MEN: $13,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFURNITURE FRIENDS: $13,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $10,810 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Association for New Americans: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROSPERITYME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAD DADS CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGROWING ROUTES: $9,500 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSALISH SEA EXPENDITIONS: $8,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPACE Gallery: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO STREET ARTS: $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetARTS IN REACH - ENCOURAGING GROWTH THROUGH THE ARTS: $5,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Courage: $5,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGather: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON HOPE: $4,440 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget350ORG: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresente Maine: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEACOAST MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chase Home: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 The Telling Room ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 Maine Association for New Americans ↗
  • Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
  • Who funds SAD DADS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWING ROUTES ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗

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…Sam L Cohen FoundationUnited Way IncElmina B Sewall Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…Onion FoundationHorizon Foundation IncNew Hampshire Charita…Agnes M Lindsay TrustThe Widgeon Point Cha…Fisher Charitable Fou…Good Shepherd Food Ba…
Maine Community Foundation IncME50.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Morse Hill Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morse Hill Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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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How do I get to Morse Hill Trust?

Find your warmest path to Morse Hill Trust 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 100 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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