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Narragansett Number One Foundation at a glance

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Narragansett Number One Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$385k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$37k
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 2025.

Health$403kFood & Nutrition$400kArts & Culture$362kHuman Services$361kAnimals$361kHousing & Shelter$354kPublic Benefit$202kEnvironment$200kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $167k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $219k
$7,220
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION DBA$10,000
ELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE$10,000
YOUTH FULL MAINE$10,000
BUXTON HOLLIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE$10,000
THE FAMILY RESTORED$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK$10,000
BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION$10,000
HOSPICE HELP FOUNDATION$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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CARING UNLIMITED CORP: $15k → 9%LEARNING WORKS: $5k → 7%CARING UNLIMITED CORP: $10k → 9%NEW BEGINNINGS: $10k → 13%WELCOME TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANK: $20k → 15%LEARNING WORKS: $5k → 7%CARING UNLIMITED CORP: $10k → 9%FAMILIES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 11%BANGOR YMCA: $5k → 15%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 11%NEW BEGINNINGS: $8k → 13%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 11%FAMILIES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 11%CARING UNLIMITED CORP: $5k → 9%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 11%FAMILIES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $14k → 15%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 11%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 15%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION DBA: $10k → 11%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 15%THE FAMILY RESTORED: $10k → 7%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $5k → 11%THE FAMILY RESTORED: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF COMMUNITY ACTION: $7k → 9%VET2VET MAINE: $5k → 9%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 9%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 9%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $20k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $8k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 9%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $8k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $8k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $7k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 7%MAINE WOOD BANKS: $5k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $15k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%PEREGRINE CORP: $5k → 7%PEREGRINE CORP: $5k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $4k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $3k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $3k → 7%MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC: $5k → 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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 87 repeat orgs$860k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
93

Total granted

$2.5M
$771k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+4%

Still filing today

64%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • H
    Homeworthy
    8× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +253%
  • MR
    MILESTONE RECOVERY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $73k · revenue +156%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK
    7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • SS
    STATE STREET CHURCH UNITED CHURCH O
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
  • RH
    RYAN HOME PROJECT
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -12% · 26% of their budget
  • FC
    FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF BUXTON
    one grant, 2017 · $21k
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
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
Maine Huts & Trails

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…

Education
4
Southern Maine Affordable Housing

To provide quality affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
5
Maine Friends of Animals

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.

Animals
6
Penobscot Community Health Center

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…

Health
7
Penobscot River Trails Inc
Environment
8
Needlepoint Sanctuary of Maine

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.

Health
9
Maine Affordable Housing Coalition

The organization advocates for the creation and preservation of affordable housing so all people in maine have a place to call home.

Civil Rights
10
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
11
Maine Needs Inc

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:…

Human Services
12
Maine Council on Aging

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…

Unclassified
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 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.
04the grantee network

118 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. 118 of the 192 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/118
Grantees still filing
75/118
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF BUXTON: $125,953 · OtherTOWN OF BUXTONIndividual grant recipient: $88,200 · OtherLAKE REGION SENIOR SERVICE INC: $69,000 · Other+111 more: $1,694,299 · Other+111 moreHomeworthy: $115,000 · Human ServicesHomeworthyHospice of Southern Maine: $49,500 · Human ServicesHospice of South…CARING UNLIMITED: $40,000 · Human ServicesCARING UNLIMITEDPREBLE STREET: $35,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREETFamilies First Community Center: $30,000 · Human ServicesFamilies First C…Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHROUGH THESE DOORS: $25,000 · Human ServicesEastern Area Agency on Aging: $23,988 · Human ServicesWELCOME TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANK: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY RESTORED: $20,000 · Human ServicesNew Beginnings: $17,500 · Human Services+11 more: $73,370 · Human Services+11 moreCOTTONTAIL COTTAGE FARM SANCTUARY: $47,500 · AnimalsResponsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills Inc: $22,597 · AnimalsGREATER ANDROSCOGGIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $22,100 · AnimalsLINN COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 · AnimalsSACO RIVER WILDLIFE CENTER: $20,000 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · AnimalsMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS: $13,500 · AnimalsDarrowby Farm Sanctuary: $10,000 · AnimalsBangor Humane Society: $10,000 · AnimalsFUTURES FOR STANDARDBREDS: $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $10,000 · AnimalsWHISKA HOUSE: $9,000 · Animals+5 more: $30,500 · AnimalsGood Shepherd Food Bank: $50,000 · Food & NutritionYouth Full Maine: $32,500 · Food & NutritionWayside Food Programs: $30,000 · Food & NutritionTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $24,000 · Food & NutritionSACO FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Farmland Trust: $9,397 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK: $70,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $23,000 · EnvironmentLAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM: $20,000 · EnvironmentSANFORD-SPRINGVALE MOUSAM WAY LAND TRUST: $15,992 · EnvironmentMAINE RIVERS: $10,000 · EnvironmentFRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN: $10,000 · EnvironmentCOBSCOOK BAY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentThe Saco River Theatre: $27,500 · Arts & CultureMarine Mammals of Maine: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTEAR CAP WORKSHOPS: $16,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOLHOUSE ARTS CENTER: $13,442 · Arts & CultureMaine Academy of Modern Music: $11,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA PROJECT INC MAINE'S FIRST SHIP: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSACO RIVER COMMUNITY TELEVISION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNorth Atlantic Arts Alliance: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBRICK STORE MUSEUM INC: $5,800 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $16,600 · Arts & CultureMILESTONE RECOVERY: $72,500 · HealthHOSPICE HELP FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital: $15,000 · HealthVNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice: $10,000 · HealthBOSTON FIREFIGHTERS BURN FND INC: $10,000 · HealthYork Hospital: $10,000 · HealthMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $5,000 · HealthDAY ONE: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,482 · Health
Other$1,977,452Human Services$474,358Animals$240,197Food & Nutrition$180,897Environment$168,992Arts & Culture$151,342Health$148,982

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHomeworthy: $115,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMILESTONE RECOVERY: $72,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK: $70,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetLAKE REGION SENIOR SERVICE INC: $69,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $63,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $62,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $49,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $47,792 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetCOTTONTAIL COTTAGE FARM SANCTUARY: $47,500 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetCARING UNLIMITED: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKids Free to Grow: $35,302 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Full Maine: $32,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetFamilies First Community Center: $30,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEsther Residence Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetThe Saco River Theatre: $27,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $26,282 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRYAN HOME PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Mammals of Maine: $25,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHROUGH THESE DOORS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEastern Area Agency on Aging: $23,988 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $23,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetResponsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills Inc: $22,597 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC: $22,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER ANDROSCOGGIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $22,100 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI VALLY AREA: $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSACO FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE FAMILY RESTORED: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLINN COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMaine Appalachian Trail Club: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSACO RIVER WILDLIFE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetLAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHOSPICE HELP FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetAUGUSTA TEEN CENTER OF THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $18,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNew Beginnings: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTEAR CAP WORKSHOPS: $16,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chaplaincy Institute of Maine: $15,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRIDING TO THE TOP: $14,000 over 5y, 0.5% 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 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 Families First Community Center ↗
  • Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
  • 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 Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
  • Who funds Marine Mammals of Maine ↗
  • Who funds THROUGH THESE DOORS ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Jubilee Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Eastern Area Agency on Aging ↗

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…Simmons Foundation - …Fisher Charitable Fou…Elmina B Sewall Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…Davis Family Foundati…Saco & Biddeford Savi…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…John T Gorman Foundat…Sam L Cohen FoundationAgnes M Lindsay TrustVirginia Hodgkins Som…
Maine Community Foundation IncME129.9× affinity98 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Narragansett Number One Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Narragansett Number One Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    37report 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 192 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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