· Public charity
Penobscot Foundation for Developmental Services
The Organizations mission is to support programs which provide assistance to citizens of Maine with developmental disabilities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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 Networkone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +17%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Penobscot Foundation for Developmental Services funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Penobscot Foundation for Developmental Services. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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