· Private foundation
Narragansett Number One 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 $10k32 grants · $167k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $219k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF BUXTON | $36,841 |
| WELCOME TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANK | $20,000 |
| PEACE RIDGE FARM | $15,000 |
| CARING UNLIMITED CORP | $15,000 |
| THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN WESTBRO | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION DBA | $10,000 |
| THE FAMILY RESTORED | $10,000 |
| YOUTH FULL MAINE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK | $10,000 |
| ELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE | $10,000 |
| LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE | $10,000 |
| BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE HELP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PREBLE STREET | $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, $438k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 12 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- HHomeworthy8× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +253%
- MRMILESTONE RECOVERY6× · 2017–2022 · $73k · revenue +156%
- FOFRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SSSTATE STREET CHURCH UNITED CHURCH Oone grant, 2021 · $26k
- RHRYAN HOME PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -12% · 26% of their budget
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF BUXTONone grant, 2017 · $21k
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.
MHT envisions a future where more individuals, schools, groups, and families can experience enriching, even life changing backcountry experiences. MHT seeks to increase access to the outdoors, inspire more people to explore and cherish the…
To provide quality affordable housing
Our mission is to promote the humane treatment of animals through education, advocacy, and legislation. since 1997, mfoa has been maine's leading voice for animal protection-working tirelessly to end animal cruelty in the state.
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
The mission of Needlepoint Sanctuary is to realize the meaning of the word sanctuary within our community and reduce the harms associated with drug use, poverty, and social inequality.
The organization advocates for the creation and preservation of affordable housing so all people in maine have a place to call home.
We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Scribners Mill Preservation 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 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
118 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 118 of the 192 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 Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK ↗
- Who funds LAKE REGION SENIOR SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds My Place Teen Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COTTONTAIL COTTAGE FARM SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CARING UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Kids Free to Grow ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds Youth Full Maine ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds Families First Community Center ↗
- Who funds Esther Residence Inc ↗
- Who funds The Saco River Theatre ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
- Who funds RYAN HOME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THROUGH THESE DOORS ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammals of Maine ↗
- Who funds Trinity Jubilee Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Eastern Area Agency on Aging ↗
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 · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc
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 Narragansett Number One 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.