· Private foundation
Rocking Moon Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $243k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $537k
- $250k+1 grant · $753k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Knox County Homeless Coalition (dba Homeworthy) | $753,416 |
| The Ali Forney Center | $102,885 |
| Tree Street Youth | $82,581 |
| Children's National Hospital Foundation | $78,360 |
| Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund | $60,704 |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation | $60,388 |
| The Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center | $52,111 |
| NOPI Inc | $50,000 |
| The Level Up Project | $50,000 |
| Open City Advocates | $40,000 |
| Maine Initiatives | $35,525 |
| Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $30,000 |
| Area Interfaith Outreach Food and Energy Assistance | $25,782 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $25,000 |
| OUT Maine | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +49% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- HHomeworthy7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +140%
- AFALI FORNEY CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $755k · revenue +114%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $471k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- CNChildren's National Hospitalone grant, 2023 · $77k
- AOACLU OF MAINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $70k
- AFADVOCATES FOR YOUTHone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -16%
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.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Maine Equal Justice is a nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity and equity for people in Maine.
Equality federation institute is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.
Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open City Advocates and the most unlike its peers is Area Interfaith Outreach. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 65 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 Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OPEN CITY ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds TREE STREET YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds OUT Maine ↗
- Who funds Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BAILEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds TREKKERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDHOOD BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEVEL UP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATENYC INC ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds NOPI INC ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW ↗
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 · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Onion Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Tides 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 Rocking Moon Foundation Inc 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.
- Nopi Inc — 14% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.