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Portland Provident Association
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC | $7,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE (REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT) | $7,000 |
| WAYSIDE SOUP KITCHEN | $7,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| FURNITURE FRIENDS | $4,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $4,000 |
| UNITED WAYKEEP ME WARM | $4,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH JUBILEE CENTER | $3,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $3,000 |
| THROUGH THESE DOORS | $3,000 |
| ST LUKE'S FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE | $3,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOUP KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| FAMILY SHELTER | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% 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.
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.
50 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +75%
- FFFURNITURE FRIENDS5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +21%
- TTTHROUGH THESE DOORS5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MAINEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CCCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTERone grant, 2021 · $3k
- BFBAPTIST FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
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…
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.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
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…
Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To maintain and operate the First Parish Church in Portland, ME.
The mission of The Genesis Fund is to bring together resources to create housing and other economic and social opportunities for underserved people and communities throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
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,…
Hope Acts offers asylum seekers access to housing and basic needs, assistance in navigating complex immigration processes, and resources for learning English to help them successfully transition to a new life in Maine.
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Through These Doors and the most unlike its peers is St Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 55 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 The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds THROUGH THESE DOORS ↗
- Who funds St Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
- Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Portland Public Schools ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Ketcha Outdoors ↗
- Who funds The Iris Network ↗
- Who funds LEARNINGWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE ROOT CELLAR ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS 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 · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Female Samaritan Association · The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson · Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable 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 Portland Provident Association 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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