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Peter Alfond Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$42MYouth Development$21MFood & Nutrition$3.5MEducation$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.8MEnvironment$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.3MCrime & Legal$484kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $723k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.3M
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARAS$200,000
PLENITUD INICIATIVAS ECO-EDUCATIVAS INC$175,000
CORPORACION JUVENIL PARA EL DESAROLLO DE COMUNIDADES SOSTENIBLES$170,000
HEARTY ROOTS$150,000
CARAS$130,000
LEAD COLLABORATIVE$116,610
OUT MAINE$100,000
TREE STREET YOUTH$100,000
PRODUCTORES DE CAFE DE PUERTO RICO INC$100,000
TREE STREET YOUTH$100,000
PORTLAND COMMUNITY SQUASH$100,000
RURAL YOUTH INSTITUTE$100,000
CORPORACION JUVENIL PARA EL DESAROLLO DE COMUNIDADES SOSTENIBLES$79,429
HISPANIC FEDERATION INC$75,000
MIDCOAST COMMUNITY ALLIANCE DBA MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER$75,000
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 (FY20–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREEN CITY FORCE: $100k → 20%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $30k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $30k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $30k → 11%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $30k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $30k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
NY
MA
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73M · 62 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
51

Total granted

$73M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+1%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $10M · revenue +318% · 80% of their budget
  • AY
    ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $8.0M · revenue +138%
  • CJ
    Corp Juvenil para desarrollo de Comunidades Sostenibles
    3× · 2022–2024 · $715k · revenue +13% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • TF
    TURNER FARM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M
  • CJ
    CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF PUERTO RICO
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +29%
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
Maine Media College

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…

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2
Coastal Enterprises Inc

Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.

Housing & Shelter
3
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

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.

Human Services
4
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.

Science & Tech
5
Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy

Focusmaine propels the growth of maine's most promising industries and transforms maine into a hub for top talent.

Community Improvement
6
Presente Maine

To empower displaced indigenous and Afro-Latinx peoples of Maine through survival programs, community power building, cultural celebration, and transformative healing practice.

Human Services
7
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
8
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
9
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
10
Ecology Education Inc

The Ecology School inspires stewardship of and connection to the natural world through experiential learning in ecology, conservation, farming, and sustainability.

Environment
11
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment
12
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rural Youth Institute; the most unlike its peers is Rural Futures Fund. 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

95 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. 95 of the 128 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/95
Grantees still filing
57/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINEGENRAL MEDICAL CENTER: $41,032,200 · OtherMAINEGENRAL MEDICAL CENTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC: $10,497,880 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INCTURNER FARM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 · Other+71 more: $6,202,852 · Other+71 moreALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $8,010,000 · Youth DevelopmentALFOND YOUTH &…AUGUSTA TEEN CENTER OF THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEARTY ROOTS INC: $430,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREE STREET YOUTH INC: $362,500 · Youth Development+10 more: $670,000 · Youth Development+10 morePLATFORM FOR SOCIAL IMPACT INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC: $785,502 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $281,000 · Community ImprovementSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $260,000 · Community ImprovementMUJERES DE ISLAS INC: $119,326 · Community Improvement+2 more: $57,300 · Community ImprovementMAINE YOUTH THRIVING: $268,663 · EducationLEAD COLLABORATIVE PR INC: $256,610 · EducationSTERLING COLLEGE: $228,000 · EducationTHE JANE STERN DORADO COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $181,776 · EducationHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $180,000 · EducationNUESTRA ESCUELA INC: $113,659 · EducationCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $100,000 · EducationRural Youth Institute: $100,000 · EducationRural Aspirations Project: $70,000 · EducationTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Education+8 more: $162,500 · EducationCorp Juvenil para desarrollo de Comunidades Sostenibles: $715,034 · EnvironmentPLENITUD INICIATIVAS ECO-EDUCATIVAS INC: $562,525 · EnvironmentPARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $187,000 · Environment+3 more: $61,000 · EnvironmentPRODUCTORES DE CAFE DE PUERTO RICO INC: $342,315 · Human ServicesGREEN CITY FORCE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHomeworthy: $90,000 · Human ServicesOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $60,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesOUT Maine: $227,500 · PhilanthropyFUNDACION CORTES INC: $220,000 · PhilanthropyPUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,600 · Philanthropy+1 more: $16,000 · Philanthropy
Other$59,732,932Youth Development$9,972,500Community Improvement$2,503,128Education$1,726,208Environment$1,525,559Human Services$593,315Philanthropy$564,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC: $10,497,880 over 4y, 80% of budgetALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $8,010,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLATFORM FOR SOCIAL IMPACT INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC: $785,502 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCorp Juvenil para desarrollo de Comunidades Sostenibles: $715,034 over 3y, 36% of budgetPLENITUD INICIATIVAS ECO-EDUCATIVAS INC: $562,525 over 3y, 18% of budgetAUGUSTA TEEN CENTER OF THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $500,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetHEARTY ROOTS INC: $430,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc: $400,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC: $362,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetPRODUCTORES DE CAFE DE PUERTO RICO INC: $342,315 over 3y, 12% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $281,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPortland Community Squash: $280,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetMAINE YOUTH THRIVING: $268,663 over 4y, 26% of budgetSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $260,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLEAD COLLABORATIVE PR INC: $256,610 over 3y, 12% of budgetAPOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC: $249,000 over 3y, 94% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $235,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $228,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetOUT Maine: $227,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetFUNDACION CORTES INC: $220,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetBANGOR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $199,250 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $187,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JANE STERN DORADO COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $181,776 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $180,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH TRUST: $151,016 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC: $142,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $140,860 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $135,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetMUJERES DE ISLAS INC: $119,326 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE VIEQUES CONSERVATION AND HISTORICAL TRUST INC: $118,655 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTREKKERS INC: $115,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetNUESTRA ESCUELA INC: $113,659 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,600 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRural Youth Institute: $100,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetGREEN CITY FORCE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $90,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters: $90,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAPEX YOUTH CONNECTION: $90,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHomeworthy: $90,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMAINE INSIDE OUT: $90,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetWABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INC: $90,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetThe Telling Room: $70,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetRural Aspirations Project: $70,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetThe Yellow Tulip Project: $70,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetHARBOR FUND INC: $65,426 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

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…John T Gorman Foundat…Onion FoundationElmina B Sewall Found…Davis Family Foundati…Maine Health Access F…Sam L Cohen FoundationHispanic Federation I…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Horizon Foundation IncAlbert B Glickman Fam…The Widgeon Point Cha…
Maine Community Foundation IncME69.6× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Hispanic Federation Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Horizon Foundation Inc · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • World Learning Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont: 31% of income from government
  • Sterling College: 10% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Peter Alfond Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Peter Alfond Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 128 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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