How much does Protein Foundation give?

Protein Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $1,375,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 62 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Protein Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Religion (19%), Youth Development (16%).

Who are Protein Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Root Cellar ($320k), House of Hope ($280k), Straight Ahead Ministries INC ($221k).

Does Protein Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Protein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Protein Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Muskegon County, Pennies From Heaven Foundation, The Church Home Society Inc.

Where is Protein Foundation based?

Protein Foundation is based in ME.

Protein Foundation

Protein Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Protein Foundation

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.

$1.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$65k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.5MReligion$1.4MYouth Development$1.1MHousing & Shelter$762kFood & Nutrition$686kInternational$624kRecreation & Sports$237kHealth$234kOther$0

02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k36 grants · $990k
$50k–250k7 grants · $385k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Straight Ahead Ministries	$65,000
Paul Carlson Partnership	$60,000
Root Cellar	$60,000
Beauty from Ashes Ministry	$50,000
Fellowship of Christian Schools	$50,000
Square Up for Others	$50,000
Individual grant recipient	$50,000
Individual grant recipient	$40,000
City Ministries	$40,000
Elevate New England	$40,000
Chop Point	$35,000
Somebody Cares New England	$35,000
Light of Life Ministries	$35,000
Hagars Sisters	$35,000
Route One Ministry	$35,000

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $608k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.3M · 62 repeat orgs$910k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.3M

$795k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

Still filing today

44%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationInternationalOther

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

TR
THE ROOT CELLAR
5× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +68%
HO
HOUSE OF HOPE
3× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +123% · 48% of their budget
Straight Ahead Ministries INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $221k · revenue +21%

Funded once

BB
BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +3%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $40k
HM
HIS MANSION MINISTRIES INC
one grant, 2021 · $30k

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.

Helping Hands Outreach Ministries Inc

Transitional and permanent supportive housing - provides shelter in the greater Manchester NH area. Services include housing, counseling (including substance abuse counseling), job search assistance, etc.

Housing & Shelter

Come to Him Ministries

To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…

Health

Southern New Hampshire Rescue Mission

We exist to share the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well as provide shelter, food, and clothing to the poor and needy in obedience to Him.

Religion

Rhode Island Rescue Ministries

Christian mission to the poor providing food, shelter clothing and counseling to the homeless

Human Services

Refuge of Hope Ministries

Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.

Religion

Christian Care

Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge

Housing & Shelter

Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan

Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.

Housing & Shelter

Beacon of Hope Ministries Inc

Use christ-centered faith to eliminate homelessness while offering shelter, clothing, food and temporary assistance to adult men.

Housing & Shelter

Hope Street Ministry Inc

Hope street provides housing and healing to men, women, and children whose lives have been profoundly affected by the toxic environment they grew up in, their own choices, or drug and alcohol abuse. empowered by the active grace of christ,…

Health

House of Refuge Ministries

The organization provides transitional and emergency housing in conjuction withsupportive services, case management and life skills training for homeless anddisadvantaged people.

Housing & Shelter

His Hope Ministries Inc

Helping families fight homelessness and find living hope.

Housing & Shelter

House of Refuge Inc

Christ centered residential ministry primarily helping african american men overcome their life controlling addictions so they can successfully re enter society as productive citizens

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Re-Entry Ministry Inc. 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

43 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. 43 of the 117 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/43

Grantees still filing

33/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,605,500Religion$724,000Human Services$608,000Food & Nutrition$550,000Housing & Shelter$293,500International$239,000Crime & Legal$205,000

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

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.

Community Foundation for Muskegon CountyMI21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Pennies From Heaven Foundation · The Church Home Society Inc · Imago Dei Fund · Boston Baptist Social Union · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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Find your warmest path to Protein 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home