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Reny Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k94 grants · $179k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| MAINE FARMLAND TRUST | $40,000 |
| MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| LINCOLN ACADEMY ANNUAL FUND | $15,000 |
| ELDERCARE NETWORK | $15,000 |
| HONOR FLIGHT MAINE | $10,000 |
| HEARTY ROOTS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GOOD SHEPARD FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MIDCOAST HUNGER PREVENTION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| WASHBURN-NORLANDS LIVING HISTORY CENTER | $6,000 |
| CAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ART VAN | $5,000 |
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, $361k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% 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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
174 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2024, 91 since wound down; 19 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- CRCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust4× · 2017–2020 · $275k · revenue +33%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY4× · 2019–2022 · $160k · revenue +23%
- LALINCOLN ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- BCBOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEYone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -2%
- TJTHE JACKSON LABORATORYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +74%
- GHGIFFT HILL ANNUAL APPEALone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
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…
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
The mission of the Maine Island Trail Association is to advance a model of thoughtful use and volunteer stewardship of Maine's wild islands, creating an inspiring recreational water trail that is cared for by the people who use it.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Mandy S Angels Diabetic Service Dogs Incorporated. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
126 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. 126 of the 276 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY ENERGY FUND OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Midcoast Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds TWIN VILLAGES ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HEARTY ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds DAMARISCOTTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds TEDFORD HOUSING ↗
- Who funds WASHBURN-NORLANDS FOUNDATION INC WASHBURN-NORLANDS LIVING HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Onion Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development 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 Reny Charitable 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.
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% 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.