· Private foundation
Rosamond Thaxter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mainspring | $7,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN & WHITE | $7,500 |
| LOVERING HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| FOOTPRINTS FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| KITTERY LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| FAIR TIDE | $5,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| SEACOAST COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| Players Ring Theatre | $3,000 |
| PORTSMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| The Telling Room | $3,000 |
| THE DANCE HALL | $3,000 |
| GUNDALOW COMPANY | $3,000 |
| WHITE PINE PROGRAMS | $3,000 |
| BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NH | $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 (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 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; $9k 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
- KLKITTERY LAND TRUST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue ×23
- FTFair Tide6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +709%
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- RWROBERT W TRAIP ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $4k
- 3A3 Artspaceone grant, 2023 · $4k
- MCMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSNone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.
To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.
Preservation of historic landmarks, communities and landscapes in order to protect and revitalize the character of the Statess communities and add to their economic vitality.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.
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…
To preserve, protect and present kennebunkport's social, cultural and architectural history.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Inc and the most unlike its peers is Footprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry. 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 17. 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 66 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 KITTERY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Fair Tide ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUNDALOW COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Footprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds Portsmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds PRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds White Pine Programs ↗
- Who funds ICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE DANCE HALL ↗
- Who funds RICE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN REACH - ENCOURAGING GROWTH THROUGH THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds The Star Island Corporation ↗
- Who funds HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Seacoast Community School ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Kittery Art Association ↗
- Who funds York Hospital ↗
- Who funds Ecology Education Inc ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
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: A Caring Community Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for Seacoast Health · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Kennebunk Savings Bank Foundation · The Schleyer Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Exeter Hospital Inc · Newburyport Bank Charitable 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 Rosamond Thaxter 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.
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.