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Roxanne Quimby Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$10MArts & Culture$2.9MAnimals$227kScience & Tech$222kReligion$150kHealth$103kHousing & Shelter$95kRecreation & Sports$93kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $278k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $690k
  • $250k+1 grant · $375k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE COLLEGE OF ART$375,000
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART$115,000
FRIENDS OF KATAHDIN WOODS & WATERS$100,000
TIDES INSTITUTE & MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
GREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS$100,000
MUSEUM STORE ASSOCIATION$100,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF MAINE$75,000
USS POTOMAC ASSOCIATION$50,000
MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING$50,000
FINCA VIGIA FOUNDATION$40,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NE$31,000
LEGACY PLUS FOUNDATION$30,000
MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
FORK FOOD LAB$22,000
MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION: $500 → 9%PREBLE STREET: $50k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $15k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
MN
NY
MA
CA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 38 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
29

Total granted

$14M
$366k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+62%

Still filing today

74%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationAnimalsCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $9.9M · revenue +114%
  • MC
    MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    5× · 2018–2024 · $840k · revenue +74%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
    4× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • UE
    Unity Environmental Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +180%
  • UB
    UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • M4
    MAINE 4-H FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
2
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
3
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…

Arts & Culture
4
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.

—
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
Maine Media College

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…

—
7
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
8
Maine Maritime Museum

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

Arts & Culture
9
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
10
Abbe Museum

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

Arts & Culture
11
Maine Film Center

To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.

—
12
Somerset Woods Trustees

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

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine; the most unlike its peers is Illustration Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
29/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $9,907,637 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONTIDES INSTITUTE & MUSEUM OF ART: $730,000 · OtherTIDES INSTITUTE & MUSEUM OF ART+38 more: $865,300 · Other+38 moreCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $300,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC: $130,000 · Arts & CultureThe Association for the Preservation of the Potomac: $125,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters: $101,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FINCA VIGIA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureILLUSTRATION INSTITUTE: $66,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOODIC ARTS FOR ALL: $41,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $118,100 · Arts & CultureMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $840,000 · EducationUnity Environmental University: $100,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: $222,084 · EnvironmentCape Elizabeth Land Trust: $22,000 · EnvironmentFork Food Lab: $22,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Environment+4 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentMILLAY HOUSE ROCKLAND: $179,000 · Community ImprovementHEART OF ELLSWORTH: $18,000 · Community ImprovementGATEWAY MILBRIDGE: $7,500 · Community ImprovementChabad Lubavitch of Maine Inc: $150,000 · ReligionMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS: $100,000 · AnimalsAVIAN HAVEN: $11,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · Animals
Other$11,502,937Arts & Culture$1,031,100Education$941,500Environment$291,084Community Improvement$204,500Religion$150,000Animals$112,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $9,907,637 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $840,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $300,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: $222,084 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMILLAY HOUSE ROCKLAND: $179,000 over 6y, 57% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC: $130,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetThe Association for the Preservation of the Potomac: $125,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters: $101,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUnity Environmental University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FINCA VIGIA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $95,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCoalition to Protect Americas National: $80,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetILLUSTRATION INSTITUTE: $66,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOODIC ARTS FOR ALL: $41,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLEGACY PLUS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWATERFALL ARTS: $27,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCape Elizabeth Land Trust: $22,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFork Food Lab: $22,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetHEART OF ELLSWORTH: $18,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAVIAN HAVEN: $11,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMAINE PRESERVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBIRTH ROOTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALLAGASH WILDERNESS WATERWAY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetGATEWAY MILBRIDGE: $7,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetVEGGIES TO TABLE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARLEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCenter Theatre Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Academy of Modern Music: $3,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF FORT WILLIAMS PARK: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHEARTFELT SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGeorges River Land Trust: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPACE Gallery: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld of Change: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Found…Onion FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Fisher Charitable Fou…Bangor Savings Bank F…Phineas W Sprague Mem…Davis Conservation Fo…John Sage FoundationThe Widgeon Point Cha…Horizon Foundation IncSam L Cohen Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME58.7× affinity31 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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · John Sage Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Roxanne Quimby Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roxanne Quimby Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Finca Vigia Foundation Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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