· Private foundation
Nautilus Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GARDEN CONSERVATORY | $13,500 |
| KENT SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LAND AND GARDEN PRESERVE | $10,000 |
| MAINE SEACOAST MISSION | $10,000 |
| NORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $4,000 |
| ST DAVIDS CHURCH | $4,000 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS | $4,000 |
| MDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY | $3,000 |
| SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $3,000 |
| HILL SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
69 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- KSKENT SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +9%
- TSThe Society of the Four Arts Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +989%
- MDMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
- SMST MARYS CHURCH HAMILTON VILLAGEone grant, 2024 · $1k
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +79%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kent School and the most unlike its peers is Seal Cove Auto Museum. 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 60 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 79 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 KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH CULTURAL INNOVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Save the Storks ↗
- Who funds Kieve Wavus Education Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds BOWNE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation · The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc · Janet Stone Jones 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 Nautilus Foundation Inc 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.
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 0% 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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