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Portland Seamens Friend Society

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$42,100
Largest grant, FY2024
$42,100
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$131k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Portland Seamens Friend Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$45k0%
FY20232$64k0%
FY20222$75k0%
FY20212$60k0%
FY20202$64k0%
FY20192$68k0%
FY20182$63k0%
FY20172$74kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$455kPublic Safety & Disaster$57k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

Individual grant recipient$42,100
EMERGENCY FUND GRANTS$2,500

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Find your warmest path to Portland Seamens Friend Society 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.

About Portland Seamens Friend Society

How much does Portland Seamens Friend Society give?
Portland Seamens Friend Society reported 2 grants totaling $44,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Portland Seamens Friend Society fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (89%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
Does Portland Seamens Friend Society fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Portland Seamens Friend Society accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Portland Seamens Friend Society based?
Portland Seamens Friend Society is based in ME.

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 2 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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