· Private foundation
Roger K Berle Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $10,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $9,200 |
| PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PORTLAND PARKS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| CLIFF ISLAND CORP FOR ACE | $3,500 |
| THE ISLAND INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL | $2,500 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| WAYNFLETE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| PORTLAND TRAILS | $2,500 |
| MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF FORT GORGES | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% 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 +72% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 8 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- BCBowdoin College9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +94%
- MPMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +88%
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine7× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +341%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
- MTMAINE TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CFCELTINO FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $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.
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.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
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…
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…
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Seacoast Mission and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 76 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 PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FORT GORGES ↗
- Who funds WAYNFLETE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND TRAILS ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Portland Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds Falmouth Memorial Library Association ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC IN THE SOMERSET HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds SMYAL Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
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 · Horizon Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Libra Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Murray Charitable Trust · Davis Conservation Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King 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 Roger K Berle Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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