· Private foundation
Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k161 grants · $249k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| 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 |
| Center for Grieving Children | $10,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity York County | $10,000 |
| University of Southern Maine | $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 |
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, $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. 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 +35% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- TOTRUSTEES OF THORNTON ACADEMY4× · 2020–2023 · $218k · revenue +10%
- HOHospice of Southern Maine9× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +67%
- MMaineHealth9× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- MFMAINE FORE CHARITYone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- SMSouthern Maine Planning and Development Commissionone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -89%
- IFInstitute for Family-Owned Businessgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +53%
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.
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…
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
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…
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…
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 provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.
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.
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.
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
251 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. 251 of the 404 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRUSTEES OF THORNTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds United Way of York County ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds York County Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds My Place Teen Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF BIDDEFORD ↗
- Who funds SACO FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds SACO MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds Ecology Education Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY YORK COUNTY MAINE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MAINE HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Sweetser ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARING UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds OCEAN PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds BIDDEFORD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern ME ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Spurwink Services Inc ↗
- Who funds APEX YOUTH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Kids Free to Grow ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PORTLAND - CAPE ELIZABETH ROTARY CHARITABLE FUND ↗
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: 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
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 Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.
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