· Private foundation
Pond Family Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MaineHealth (fbo Maine Behavioral Healthcare) | $50,000 |
| University of Southern Maine Foundation | $50,000 |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $50,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | $25,000 |
| Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine | $25,000 |
| First Congregational Church | $25,000 |
| SMCC Foundation | $25,000 |
| Portland Parks Conservancy | $20,000 |
| Maine Needs | $15,000 |
| Spurwink | $15,000 |
| Preble Street | $15,000 |
| Riverside Community Care | $10,000 |
| University of Southern Maine | $10,000 |
| Children First Fund | $7,000 |
| Carroll School | $6,000 |
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, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 14 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- UOUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $235k · revenue +110%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE5× · 2021–2025 · $81k · revenue +46%
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank6× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- CMChildrens Museum Theatre of Mainone grant, 2021 · $40k
- SFST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CMCHILDRENS MUSEUM THEATRE OF MEone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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.
Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.
The Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine.
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…
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
To provide a full range of living options, high-quality health services and individualized care plans designed to respect older adults' varied interests, abilities and needs and promote independence and well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Northern Light Health Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 118 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 MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds Maine Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds Spurwink Services Inc ↗
- Who funds UNDERSTANDING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Shalom House Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds Portland Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Partners for World Health ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Roy a Hunt Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
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 Pond Family 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.
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School — 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.