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Quimby Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $203k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $884k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE GEAR SHARE | $45,000 |
| INLAND WOODS & TRAILS | $25,000 |
| CULTIVATING COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| NIWESKOK FROM THE STARS TO SEEDS | $20,000 |
| HEARTY ROOTS | $20,000 |
| RIPPLEFFECT | $20,000 |
| WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION | $20,000 |
| LAND IN COMMON INC | $20,000 |
| COBSCOOK COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER | $20,000 |
| MAINE FEDERATION OF FARMERS MARKETS | $18,000 |
| MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $18,000 |
| TEENS TO TRAILS | $18,000 |
| SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $18,000 |
| DOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY | $18,000 |
| WHITE PINE PROGRAMS | $18,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +56% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k 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
- EEEcology Education Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +109%
- MOMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION4× · 2019–2024 · $188k · revenue +56%
- CCCULTIVATING COMMUNITY7× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- WNWOLFES NECK FARMone grant, 2017 · $50k
- ETEastern Trail Allianceone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -30%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
Our Mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maines forest community
The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.
The mission of the Falmouth Land Trust is to preserve and care for natural and agricultural lands in perpetuity, to enhance habitat for plants and wildlife, to advance the quality of life for all in our community, and to educate the public…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Farmland Trust and the most unlike its peers is Portland Wheelers. 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 25 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 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
142 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. 142 of the 198 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 Ecology Education Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cobscook Community Learning Center ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds NEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLEFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds Maine GearShare ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING ↗
- Who funds Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ACADIA ↗
- Who funds Midcoast Conservancy ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Teens to Trails ↗
- Who funds WESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTY ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds INLAND WOODS TRAILS ↗
- Who funds Maine Federation of Farmers Markets ↗
- Who funds WABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK ↗
- Who funds TREKKERS INC ↗
- Who funds BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds APEX YOUTH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds OXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Frenchman Bay Conservancy ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR SPORT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds White Pine Programs ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTH ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
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: Onion Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · John Sage Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Leonard C & Mildred F Ferguson Foundation · The Nature Conservancy
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 Quimby 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.
- Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sponsor Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% 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.
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