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Norman N & Gale R Hochgraf Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEAR PAW REGIONAL GREENWAY | $5,000 |
| JEFFERSON AREA FOOD PANTRY | $4,500 |
| THE FRIENDLY KITCHEN | $4,500 |
| MID COAST HUMANE | $4,500 |
| ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY | $4,500 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOC | $4,500 |
| LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM | $4,500 |
| NEW HARBOR FOOD PANTRY | $4,500 |
| COASTAL RIVERS CONSERVATION TRUST | $4,000 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL | $4,000 |
| TWIN VILLAGES FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| MAINE CHILDREN'S CANCER PROGRAM | $4,000 |
| KNOX COUNTY HEALTH CLINIC | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND LINCOLN COUNTY | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TCTHE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +3%
- LCLINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +172%
- CRCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +304%
Funded once
- LCLINCOLN COUNTY HEALTHCAREone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
LincolnHealth is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of our communities by assuring: the very best, highest quality, and compassionate health care services from highly trained professionals; our services are cost-effective…
Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
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.
The Corporation operates for the purpose of providing medical & health services, including primary & specialized care, through licensed physicians & other health professionals primarily in Lincoln County, Maine. Effective February 5, 2023…
Waldo County General Hospital's mission is to be the BEST - Better, Empathy, Service and Teamwork. Our goal is to ensure quality, accessible and affordable health care services and to improve the health and well-being of our community.
The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust and the most unlike its peers is Team Hailey Hugs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 THE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST HUMANE ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MID-COAST HEALTH NET INC ↗
- Who funds Midcoast Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds AVIAN HAVEN ↗
- Who funds The Lincoln Home ↗
- Who funds TEAM HAILEY HUGS ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONCORD AREA TRUST FOR COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Reny Charitable Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Burns Family Foundation Inc · The Marjorie C Bailey Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Norman N & Gale R Hochgraf Charitable 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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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