· Private foundation
Munsell Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $25,000 |
| MINT THEATER | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $5,000 |
| FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| ACLU | $3,000 |
| GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HIST | $2,000 |
| WYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORK | $1,000 |
| YMCA | $1,000 |
| SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| LAND & GARDEN PRESERVE | $1,000 |
| KPBS | $1,000 |
| CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LAMOINE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $500 |
| PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your 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.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 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
Maine Coast Heritage Trust4× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +106%- FBFrenchman Bay Conservancy9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +249%
- BABUILD A MIRACLE2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IIIREST INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $500
- SFSOAPBOX FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $300
- SCSEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250 · revenue +859%
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.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
To preserve Maine's heritage through programs, publications, and events that promote, advocate, and build support for the Maine State Museum.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
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 connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grand Canyon Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Acadia Repertory Theatre 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 38 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 45 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 Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Frenchman Bay Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BUILD A MIRACLE ↗
- Who funds KEEP SEDONA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ACADIA REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC CHI OMEGA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds SEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Marin Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds SEDONA RECYCLES INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN CIVIC BALLET ASSOCIATION DBA MARIN BALLET ↗
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 · Arizona Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Munsell Family 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.
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.