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Penobscot Foundation for Developmental Services
The Organizations mission is to support programs which provide assistance to citizens of Maine with developmental disabilities.
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 $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maine Discovery Museum | $25,000 |
| Pine Tree Society | $20,000 |
| Robbie Foundation | $20,000 |
| Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation | $15,000 |
| Adaptive Outdoor Recreation Center | $9,756 |
| Autism Society of Maine | $6,000 |
| Amicus | $4,148 |
| Penobscot Theater | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MDMAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM8× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +57%
- MAMAINE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION4× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +79%
- RFRobbie Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +636%
Funded once
- TGThe George Washington Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +26%
- WFWORK FIRST INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -11%
- TIThe Iris Networkgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +30%
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.
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
Equipping Maine learners with the confidence and skills to realize their full potential.
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 provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
Gateway Community Service seeks to encourage, support and build healthy connections with oneself and others in order to promote vibrancy and well-being, along with welcoming communities where all people feel accepted, valued and have a…
Founded in 1952, The Arc Quinebaug Valley is a nonprofit human services agency committed to supporting individuals (and their families) with intellectual, developmental and other life-affecting disabilities. We provide opportunities…
The association's primary exempt purpose is to improve business conditions for its members in the retail, wholesale, and service industries by representing its members and keeping them informed of laws and regulations affecting them.
To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.
The organization's mission is to serve its students, their families and their sending school districts through well coordinated educational, clinical and consultation services.
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
To provide free high quality legal services to maine residents aged sixty & over, who qualify for legal services under the older americans act, 42 usca sec. 3001 et seq, as amended.
Our Mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maines forest community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pine Tree Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Robbie Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 Amicus ↗
- Who funds MAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAINE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION ↗
- Who funds Robbie Foundation ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF MAINE d/b/a ASM ↗
- Who funds PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WORK FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds The Iris Network ↗
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 · Libra Foundation · WR Berkley Corporation Charitable Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · 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 Penobscot Foundation for Developmental Services 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.
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