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Quimby Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
97
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.5MHealth$721kRecreation & Sports$704kYouth Development$481kArts & Culture$453kEducation$380kHuman Services$339kOther$0
02FY2024 · 97 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $203k
  • $10k–50k62 grants · $884k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE GEAR SHARE$45,000
INLAND WOODS & TRAILS$25,000
WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION$20,000
COBSCOOK COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER$20,000
LAND IN COMMON INC$20,000
CULTIVATING COMMUNITY$20,000
RIPPLEFFECT$20,000
HEARTY ROOTS$20,000
NIWESKOK FROM THE STARS TO SEEDS$20,000
DOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY$18,000
MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$18,000
SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$18,000
MAINE FEDERATION OF FARMERS MARKETS$18,000
TEENS TO TRAILS$18,000
WHITE PINE PROGRAMS$18,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MAINE HIGHLANDS SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 15%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $20k → 12%PORTLAND PARKS CONSERVANCY: $5k → 7%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $15k → 12%ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $19k → 9%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $8k → 12%ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $10k → 9%CAMP CAPELLA: $5k → 11%PRESENTE MAINE: $10k → 7%PRESENTE MAINE: $8k → 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
VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
CT
NE
VA
NC
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.
$6.6M · 109 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
57

Total granted

$6.6M
$832k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+32%

Still filing today

79%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • EE
    Ecology Education Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +109%
  • MO
    MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $188k · revenue +56%
  • CC
    CULTIVATING COMMUNITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • WN
    WOLFES NECK FARM
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • ET
    Eastern Trail Alliance
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -30%
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
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
2
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
3
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
4
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative

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…

Animals
5
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
6
Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust

Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.

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7
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
8
Maine Tree Foundation

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

Environment
9
Piscataquog Land Conservancy

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…

—
10
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

—
11
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust

We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.

—
12
Falmouth Conservation Trust Dba Falmouth Land Trust

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Farmland Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

143 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. 143 of the 198 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)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
139/143
Grantees still filing
98/143
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cobscook Community Learning Center: $185,000 · OtherCobscook Community Learning CenterMI'KMAQ NATION: $109,500 · OtherWABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION: $142,000 · Other+97 more: $2,768,500 · Other+97 moreEcology Education Inc: $218,500 · EnvironmentEcology Education IncNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC: $170,000 · EnvironmentNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INCBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc: $116,500 · EnvironmentBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust…Midcoast Conservancy: $109,500 · EnvironmentMidcoast ConservancyKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $105,500 · EnvironmentKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUSTINLAND WOODS TRAILS: $94,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK: $87,500 · EnvironmentNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $77,500 · EnvironmentOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS: $76,000 · EnvironmentFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $75,000 · EnvironmentMOMENTUM CONSERVATION: $69,000 · Environment+32 more: $740,539 · Environment+32 moreMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $187,500 · Food & NutritionMAINE ORGA…CULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $178,500 · Food & NutritionCULTIVATIN…Maine Federation of Farmers Markets: $91,500 · Food & NutritionMaine Fede…Cumberland County Food Security Council: $58,500 · Food & NutritionCumberland…Maine Farmland Trust: $52,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Farm…CENTER FOR A GREEN FUTURE AKA GROWING TO GIVE: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+10 more: $130,500 · Food & Nutrition+10 moreRIPPLEFFECT INC: $158,140 · HealthRIPPLEFFE…WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING: $127,500 · HealthWOMEN FOR…HEALTHY ACADIA: $114,500 · HealthHEALTHY A…OUTDOOR SPORT INSTITUTE INC: $73,500 · HealthOUTDOOR S…BIRTH ROOTS INC: $66,500 · HealthBIRTH ROO…Medical Care Development Inc: $55,500 · HealthMedical C…WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC: $37,500 · HealthWABANAKI …HEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT INC: $27,500 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthTeens to Trails: $105,500 · Youth DevelopmentHEARTY ROOTS INC: $97,500 · Youth DevelopmentWABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INC: $87,500 · Youth DevelopmentAPEX YOUTH CONNECTION: $77,500 · Youth DevelopmentKetcha Outdoors: $23,500 · Youth Development+3 more: $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentMaine GearShare: $136,097 · Recreation & SportsTREKKERS INC: $87,000 · Recreation & SportsBICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsFriends of Quarry Road: $37,500 · Recreation & SportsEastern Trail Alliance: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsFriends of the Eastern Promenade: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWhite Pine Programs: $73,000 · EducationMAINE SCHOOL GARDEN NETWORK: $58,500 · EducationTANGLEWOOD CAMP AND LEARNING CENTER: $33,000 · EducationUniversity of Maine Foundation: $25,000 · EducationMAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $25,000 · EducationPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · EducationTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $20,000 · EducationMAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationMaine Huts & Trails: $20,000 · EducationKatahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation: $20,000 · EducationMILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $15,000 · Education+3 more: $16,500 · Education
Other$3,205,000Environment$1,940,039Food & Nutrition$723,500Health$675,640Youth Development$419,500Recreation & Sports$410,597Education$346,000

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 budgetEcology Education Inc: $218,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $187,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetCobscook Community Learning Center: $185,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $178,500 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC: $170,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetRIPPLEFFECT INC: $158,140 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetWABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION: $142,000 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetMaine GearShare: $136,097 over 4y, 20% of budgetWOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING: $127,500 over 7y, 15% of budgetBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc: $116,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetHEALTHY ACADIA: $114,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetMidcoast Conservancy: $109,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $105,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTeens to Trails: $105,500 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetWESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST: $105,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetMAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $100,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetHEARTY ROOTS INC: $97,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetINLAND WOODS TRAILS: $94,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetMaine Federation of Farmers Markets: $91,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK: $87,500 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetWABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INC: $87,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetTREKKERS INC: $87,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE: $80,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetHEALTHY PENINSULA: $79,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetAPEX YOUTH CONNECTION: $77,500 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $77,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS: $76,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $75,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOUTDOOR SPORT INSTITUTE INC: $73,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetWhite Pine Programs: $73,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: $69,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMOMENTUM CONSERVATION: $69,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetBIRTH ROOTS INC: $66,500 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetMAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN: $65,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $64,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPORTLAND TRAILS: $64,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetRANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST INC: $62,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD AND MEDICINE: $62,500 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetCumberland County Food Security Council: $58,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMedical Care Development Inc: $55,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE: $54,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALLAGASH WILDERNESS WATERWAY FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 5y, 25% of budgetJUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION: $52,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $52,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $52,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHIRUNDO WILDLIFE TRUST: $49,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetLAND PEACE FOUNDATION: $49,000 over 3y, 2.2% 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 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 FRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK ↗
  • Who funds WABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds TREKKERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY PENINSULA ↗
  • Who funds APEX YOUTH CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Onion FoundationMaine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…Davis Conservation Fo…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Bangor Savings Bank F…John Sage FoundationHorizon Foundation IncStephen & Tabitha Kin…John T Gorman Foundat…Leonard C & Mildred F…The Nature Conservancy
Onion FoundationME161.9× affinity82 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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How do I get to Quimby Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Quimby Family 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.

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 198 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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