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Rjm Stein Family 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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Arts & Culture$19kInternational$10kHuman Services$7kHealth$6kEnvironment$2kEducation$2kCivil Rights$2kPublic Benefit$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$175
Median grant
8
States reached
$101k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMDEN CONFERENCE$1,270
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES$750
MERCY CORPS$350
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$300
AMERICAN HIMALAYAN FOUNDATION$300
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$300
MIDCOAST FORUM ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$235
Individual grant recipient$200
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$200
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$200
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$200
Individual grant recipient$200
PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$200
WATERFALL ARTS$200
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES$200
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%BELFAST AREA CHILD CARE SERVICES: $200 → 13%OLYMPIA SNOW WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $100 → 7%W CONNECTION INC: $150 → 17%OLYMPIA SNOW WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $100 → 7%THE W CONNECTION: $150 → 17%BELFAST AREA CHILD CARE SERVICES: $100 → 13%NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN: $150 → 11%NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN: $150 → 11%NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN: $50 → 11%NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN: $50 → 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
NY
MA
CA
VA
AZ
DC
AL

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$47k · 56 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
18

Total granted

$47k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+40%

Still filing today

79%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • CC
    CAMDEN CONFERENCE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +43%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    5× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +17%
  • PN
    Points North Institute
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CL
    Children's Literature Association
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • TM
    THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
    one grant, 2019 · $600
  • BF
    Belfast Free Librarygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +40%

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
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
2
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Maine Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
6
Bowdoin International Music Festival

The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…

Arts & Culture
7
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
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
10
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
11
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
12
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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Contemporary Art and the most unlike its peers is Camden Area Youth Seamanship Progra. 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr20%16%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr20%12%20–35yr14%38%35–55yr13%25%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/56
the rest of the field
11%
4,013/36,189

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

54 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. 54 of the 80 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
37/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $3,850 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAMDEN CONFERENCE — $3,720 · OtherCAMDEN CONFERENCEMaine Media College — $1,400 · OtherMaine Media CollegeMidcoast Forum on Foreign Relations — $1,095 · OtherHOLOCAUST MUSEUM — $800 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $800 · OtherBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences — $800 · Other+31 more — $9,755 · Other+31 morePoints North Institute — $2,450 · Arts & CulturePoints North InstituteOPERA MAINE — $1,500 · Arts & CultureOPERA MAINEChildren's Literature Association — $1,500 · Arts & CultureChildren's Literature Associati…The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc — $1,500 · Arts & CultureThe Metropolitan Opera Guild In…Portland Museum of Art — $1,220 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of ArtPENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM — $1,045 · Arts & CulturePENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUMWATERFALL ARTS — $1,000 · Arts & CultureWATERFALL ARTSTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $700 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $650 · Arts & CultureMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING — $550 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $540 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $2,005 · Arts & Culture+7 moreMercy Corps — $1,500 · InternationalMercy CorpsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SAN…The American Himalayan Foundation — $900 · InternationalThe American…J STREET — $750 · InternationalJ STREETNEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC — $700 · InternationalNEW JEWISH N…SEEDS OF PEACE INC — $400 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEA…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $370 · InternationalUNITED STATE…WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $300 · International+1 more — $50 · InternationalChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $3,500 · HealthChildren's…Restorative Justice Project Maine — $750 · HealthRestorativ…The Yellow Tulip Project — $600 · HealthThe Yellow…Island Institute — $888 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $600 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500 · EducationBelfast Free Library — $500 · EducationNEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC — $400 · Human ServicesW CONNECTION INC — $300 · Human ServicesBelfast Area Child Care Services Inc — $300 · Human ServicesOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute — $200 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION — $100 · Human ServicesCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $550 · EnvironmentGeorges River Land Trust — $225 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $175 · Environment
Other$22,220Arts & Culture$14,660International$5,970Health$4,850Education$2,488Human Services$1,300Environment$950

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMDEN CONFERENCE — $3,720 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPoints North Institute — $2,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA MAINE — $1,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Literature Association — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Media College — $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $1,220 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMidcoast Forum on Foreign Relations — $1,095 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM — $1,045 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWATERFALL ARTS — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation — $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute — $888 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences — $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRestorative Justice Project Maine — $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $725 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST — $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPEAKING PLACE — $630 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Yellow Tulip Project — $600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING — $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $540 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelfast Free Library — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelfast Historical Society and Museum — $440 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $370 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION — $350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAMDEN AREA YOUTH SEAMANSHIP PROGRA — $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC — $340 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetW CONNECTION INC — $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBelfast Area Child Care Services Inc — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorges River Land Trust — $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $200 over 2y, 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…Onion FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Fisher Charitable Fou…Mattina R Proctor Fou…Sam L Cohen FoundationSpectemur Agendo IncBangor Savings Bank F…The Bertuzzi Family F…Joe B Foster Family F…Donald & Alice Noble …
Maine Community Foundation IncME41× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Mattina R Proctor Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Spectemur Agendo Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Bertuzzi Family Foundation · Joe B Foster Family Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc

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 Rjm Stein 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report 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

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 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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