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Pond Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$468k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$865kEducation$557kReligion$267kYouth Development$166kArts & Culture$161kHuman Services$117kRecreation & Sports$99kFood & Nutrition$76kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $133k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MaineHealth (fbo Maine Behavioral Healthcare)$50,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank$50,000
University of Southern Maine Foundation$50,000
Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine$25,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine$25,000
First Congregational Church$25,000
SMCC Foundation$25,000
Portland Parks Conservancy$20,000
Spurwink$15,000
Preble Street$15,000
Maine Needs$15,000
University of Southern Maine$10,000
Riverside Community Care$10,000
Children First Fund$7,000
Carroll School$6,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNITED METHODIST RETIREMENT COM: $250 → 14%Wayfinder Schools: $5k → 11%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $1k → 11%Wayfinder Schools: $500 → 11%Cradles to Crayons: $5k → 8%Cradles to Crayons: $5k → 8%Cradles to Crayons: $500 → 8%Caties Closet: $5k → 8%Simple Gifts: $1k → 7%Catie's Closet: $5k → 8%Portland Parks Conservancy: $20k → 7%Maine Needs: $25k → 7%Maine Needs: $15k → 7%Preble Street: $15k → 7%Preble Street: $10k → 7%Preble Street: $10k → 7%Preble Street: $10k → 7%Preble Street: $1k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $1k → 7%Simple Gifts: $1k → 7%Simple Gifts: $1k → 7%Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $5k → 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
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
KS
AR
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 57 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
47

Total granted

$2.1M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

67%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UO
    University of Southern Maine Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $235k · revenue +110%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $81k · revenue +46%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    6× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CM
    Childrens Museum Theatre of Main
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • CM
    CHILDRENS MUSEUM THEATRE OF ME
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

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…

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2
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
3
Community Health and Nursing Services

Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.

Health
4
Maine Community Foundation Inc

The Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine.

Philanthropy
5
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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6
Maine Farmland Trust

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

Food & Nutrition
7
Maine Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

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…

Health
9
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
10
LincolnHealth Group

LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.

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11
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

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,…

Education
12
Quarry Hill

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine; 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.
04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
37/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $434,500 · OtherMAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCAREFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $250,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHMaine Behavioral Health: $160,266 · OtherMaine Behavioral HealthBoys and Girls Clubs: $138,500 · OtherBoys and Girls ClubsFalmouth Congregational Church: $65,000 · Other+75 more: $628,750 · Other+75 moreUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $235,304 · PhilanthropyUniversity …+2 more: $11,500 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · EducationBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $22,000 · EducationCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationNORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $6,000 · EducationTHOMAS MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Education+8 more: $18,250 · EducationPREBLE STREET: $47,000 · Human ServicesMaine Needs Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesPortland Parks Conservancy: $20,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesCatie's Closet Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesWAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $6,500 · Human ServicesRIDING TO THE TOP: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,250 · Human ServicesMaineHealth: $55,000 · HealthRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC: $20,000 · HealthShalom House Inc: $20,000 · HealthMaine Cancer Foundation: $20,000 · HealthMILESTONE RECOVERY: $6,000 · Health+3 more: $4,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $81,200 · Arts & CultureGood Shepherd Food Bank: $72,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,677,016Philanthropy$246,804Education$153,750Human Services$142,250Health$125,500Arts & Culture$81,200Food & Nutrition$73,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $235,304 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $81,200 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $72,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMaineHealth: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $47,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSpurwink Services Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERSTANDING OUR DIFFERENCES INC: $30,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $27,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Parks Conservancy: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetShalom House Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Cancer Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPartners for World Health: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNewton Neighbors Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWTON TURKEY TROT: $10,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $6,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILESTONE RECOVERY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetRYAN HOME PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDING TO THE TOP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPLE GIFTS: $3,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCape Elizabeth Land Trust: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIX RIVERS YOUTH SPORTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Portland Parks Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds Shalom House Inc ↗
  • Who funds Maine Cancer Foundation ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗

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…Saco & Biddeford Savi…John T Gorman Foundat…The Widgeon Point Cha…Sam L Cohen FoundationFisher Charitable Fou…Albert B Glickman Fam…Onion FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Vincent B and Barbara…Roy a Hunt FoundationMorton-Kelly Charitab…
Maine Community Foundation IncME47.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
14report 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.

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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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