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Rhoads Jr Jay-Environmental Fund Tr

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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$12MPhilanthropy$1.5MCommunity Improvement$855kAnimals$300kHuman Services$200kEducation$100kPublic Benefit$50kScience & Tech$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $932k
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$525,000
LOON ECHO LAND TRUST INC$407,000
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST$225,000
CHESHIRE COUNTY CONSERVATION SYSTEM$200,000
DOWN EAST LAKES LAND TR$200,000
UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST$170,000
SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL$150,000
THE MONADNOCK CONSERVANCY$125,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ASS$100,000
FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY$100,000
WESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST$100,000
MAHOOSUC LAND TRUST INC$100,000
MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATIO$100,000
MAINE RIVERS$100,000
SOUTHERN MAINE CONSERVATION COLLABORATIV$85,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $100k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $100k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VT
NH
MT
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
NE
VA
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 37 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
7

Total granted

$12M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+25%

Still filing today

89%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionScience & TechHuman ServicesOther

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

  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +42%
  • Loon Echo Land Trust Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $825k · revenue +311% · 28% of their budget
  • NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $719k · revenue +448%

Funded once

  • OS
    OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • LE
    LOON ECHO LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $235k
  • CC
    CHESHIRE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

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
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
4
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
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
Somerset Woods Trustees

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

Environment
7
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
8
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
9
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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10
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
11
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…

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downeast Lakes Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is New Hampshire Environmental Educators. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%44%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,524

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
31/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,400,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONLoon Echo Land Trust Inc — $825,000 · EnvironmentLoon Echo Land Trust IncNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $719,300 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATIONOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $670,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INCMAINE RIVERS — $500,000 · EnvironmentMAINE RIVERSThe Monadnock Conservancy — $421,500 · EnvironmentDOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST — $410,000 · EnvironmentMahoosuc Land Trust Inc — $375,000 · EnvironmentGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC — $325,000 · EnvironmentMOMENTUM CONSERVATION — $320,000 · EnvironmentINLAND WOODS TRAILS — $305,000 · EnvironmentNASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC — $300,000 · Environment+14 more — $2,052,000 · Environment+14 moreWESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST — $585,000 · OtherWESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRU…MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $525,000 · OtherMAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCHESHIRE COUNTY CONSERVATION SYSTEM — $350,000 · OtherCHESHIRE COUNTY CONSERVATI…MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $310,000 · OtherMAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCAT…OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE — $300,000 · OtherOPEN SPACE INSTITUTELOON ECHO LAND TRUST — $235,000 · OtherLOON ECHO LAND TRUSTCHESHIRE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT — $200,000 · OtherCHESHIRE COUNTY CONSERVATI…NEW HAMPSHIRE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ASS — $179,000 · OtherDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $200,000 · OtherDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNER…+9 more — $583,600 · Other+9 moreMaine Community Foundation Inc — $880,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropySUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL — $550,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION — $300,000 · AnimalsDOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC — $230,000 · AnimalsUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST — $470,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries — $300,000 · Science & Tech
Environment$8,622,800Other$3,467,600Philanthropy$881,000Community Improvement$550,000Animals$530,000Food & Nutrition$470,000Science & Tech$300,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,400,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $880,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLoon Echo Land Trust Inc — $825,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $719,300 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $670,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetWESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST — $585,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL — $550,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetMAINE RIVERS — $500,000 over 5y, 53% of budgetUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST — $470,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetThe Monadnock Conservancy — $421,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetDOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST — $410,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMahoosuc Land Trust Inc — $375,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC — $325,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMOMENTUM CONSERVATION — $320,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetMAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $310,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetINLAND WOODS TRAILS — $305,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC — $300,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries — $300,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION — $300,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetTIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $275,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetDOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC — $230,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION — $227,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetMaine Mountain Collaborative — $220,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy — $200,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetCENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY — $150,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATORS — $120,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetA CLIMATE TO THRIVE — $100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetAudubon Society of New Hampshire — $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY NH — $95,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetSmall Woodland Owners Association of Maine — $75,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPresumpscot Regional Land Trust — $70,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $60,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMaine Philanthropy Center — $30,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Davis Conservation Fo…Onion FoundationElmina B Sewall Found…The Nature ConservancyMorton-Kelly Charitab…New Hampshire Charita…Fidelity FoundationJohn Sage FoundationQuimby Family Foundat…Fields Pond Foundatio…Momentum Conservation
Maine Community Foundation IncME49.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · John Sage Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · Momentum Conservation

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 Rhoads Jr Jay-Environmental Fund Tr 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Hubbard Brook Research Foundation — 6% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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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