How much does Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation give?

Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation reported 168 grants totaling $372,185 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 111 and 189 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Education (18%), Philanthropy (12%).

Who are Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of Thornton Academy ($218k), Hospice of Southern Maine ($183k), MaineHealth ($136k).

Does Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sam L Cohen Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation.

Where is Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation based?

Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation is based in ME.

Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation

Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$372k

Granted FY2025still arriving

168

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

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 2025.

Health$881kEducation$659kPhilanthropy$436kYouth Development$331kHuman Services$328kFood & Nutrition$308kCommunity Improvement$207kArts & Culture$144kOther$0

02FY2025 · 168 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k161 grants · $249k
$10k–50k6 grants · $73k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$478k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
United Way of Southern Maine	$50,200
Hospice of Southern Maine	$16,400
Saco Food Pantry Inc	$15,000
Thornton Academy	$11,760
University of Southern Maine	$10,000
Habitat for Humanity York County	$10,000
Center for Grieving Children	$10,000
MaineHealth	$9,650
The Salvation Army National Corporation	$8,200
Biddeford Food Pantry	$7,450
Heart of Biddeford	$7,000
Saco Main Street	$6,600
Junior Achievement of Maine Inc	$5,700
Maine Cancer Foundation	$5,500
Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center	$5,450

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $432k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.6M · 256 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

256 repeat relationships: 139 still active in FY2025, 117 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

256

120

Total granted

$3.6M

$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+9%

Still filing today

64%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

TO
TRUSTEES OF THORNTON ACADEMY
4× · 2020–2023 · $218k · revenue +10%
HO
Hospice of Southern Maine
9× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +67%
M
MaineHealth
9× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +239%

Funded once

MF
MAINE FORE CHARITY
one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
ML
MCARTHUR LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +85%
IF
Institute for Family-Owned Businessgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +53%

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.

Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation

Environment

Wetlands Foundation

Environment

Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports

Maine Council on Aging

A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…

Unclassified

Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

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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…

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Sail Maine

To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.

Arts & Culture

Maine Health Access Foundation Inc

Health

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

Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health

Maine Medical Association

To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; the most unlike its peers is St Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen. 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

251 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. 251 of the 404 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

235/251

Grantees still filing

176/251

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,808,564Human Services$438,545Health$391,535Education$351,676Youth Development$248,370Food & Nutrition$194,198Community Improvement$152,450

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

Sam L Cohen FoundationME147.2× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · United Way Inc · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization

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 Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

32report 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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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