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Sadie and Harry Davis 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$4.1MHealth$3.7MArts & Culture$221kHuman Services$189kFood & Nutrition$181kYouth Development$177kPublic Benefit$81kCrime & Legal$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $247k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S ORAL$1,050,000
THE MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING$200,000
SAFEBAE$25,000
ANDROSCOGGIN LAND TRUST$25,000
VILES ARBORETUM$25,000
MAINE EQUAL JUSTICE$25,000
HEARTY ROOTS$25,000
LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION$25,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MID-MAINE$20,000
HARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN$20,000
MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER$15,360
MAINE INSIDE OUT$15,000
MAINE BOYS TO MEN$15,000
FOUNDATION FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS$12,000
WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Center for Grieving Children: $10k → 22%Bangor Region YMCA: $10k → 15%Midcoast Maine Community Action: $8k → 9%Grahamtastic Connection: $14k → 9%YWCA CENTRAL MAINE: $10k → 13%Bangor Region YMCA: $6k → 15%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 7%MAINE ACCESS IMMIGRANT NETWORK: $15k → 7%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $11k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$226k · 13 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
77

Total granted

$226k
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • Foundation for Portland Public Schools
    2× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +104%
  • FP
    FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +632%
  • AF
    AUGUSTA FOOD BANK
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • MC
    Maine Community Foundation- Ptrnshp for Children's Oral Health
    one grant, 2022 · $950k
  • TH
    THE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $650k · revenue +20% · 36% of their budget
  • CO
    Children's Oral Health Network of Maine
    one grant, 2021 · $400k

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
3
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
4
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
5
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
6
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…

Health
7
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

—
8
Maine GearShare

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

Recreation & Sports
9
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
10
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
11
Maine Children's Trust

The Maine Children's Trust is a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent abuse and neglect by organizing a strong unified voice that abuse is preventable and to facilitate collaboration to accomplish this goal.

Crime & Legal
12
Maine Association for the Education of Young Children

MaineAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Oxford Hills Community Gardens. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMaine Advocacy & Policy Org…Vulnerable Population Suppo…Performing Arts Organizatio…Community Centers & Youth S…Youth Development CentersSenior and Disabled HousingCommunity Poverty Relief Se…Maine Community InstitutionsCommunity Healthcare Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%2%<5yr12%14%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr16%17%35–55yr18%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%13%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr16%73%35–55yr18%2%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
4/73
the rest of the field
10%
612/6,329

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.

04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 106 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/70
Grantees still filing
45/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Maine Community Foundation Inc — $4,106,256 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation Inc+3 more — $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S ORAL — $1,050,000 · OtherTHE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN…Maine Community Foundation- Ptrnshp for Children's Oral Health — $950,000 · OtherMaine Community Foundation- Ptrnshp for Ch…Children's Oral Health Network of Maine — $400,000 · OtherChildren's Oral Health Network of MaineMaine Community Foundation- Reimagining Oral Health Care — $250,000 · OtherMaine Community Foundation- Reimagining Or…+58 more — $722,913 · Other+58 moreTHE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH — $650,000 · HealthTHE HARRY E…MaineHealth Services — $125,172 · HealthMaineHealth…+11 more — $141,000 · Health+11 moreMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE INSIDE OUT — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $16,000 · Human ServicesMaine Access Immigrant Network — $15,000 · Human ServicesGrahamtastic Connection — $14,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES — $11,000 · Human ServicesCAMP CAPELLA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesYWCA Central Maine — $10,000 · Human ServicesDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $10,000 · Human ServicesFURNITURE FRIENDS — $8,500 · Human ServicesMIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION — $7,500 · Human ServicesFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES — $5,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $5,000 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $5,000 · Human ServicesHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen Center Inc — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark — $15,360 · Youth DevelopmentMAINE BOYS TO MEN — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREE STREET YOUTH INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentROSATI LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentANDROSCOGGIN LAND TRUST INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentViles Arboretum — $25,000 · EnvironmentOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS — $15,000 · EnvironmentDEFEND OUR HEALTH — $13,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$4,146,256Other$3,372,913Health$916,172Arts & Culture$215,000Human Services$147,000Youth Development$95,360Environment$78,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $4,106,256 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH — $650,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING — $200,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMaineHealth Services — $125,172 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of New England — $33,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSafeBae Org Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetANDROSCOGGIN LAND TRUST INC — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetViles Arboretum — $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $22,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAUGUSTA FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRobbie Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLocker Project — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK — $18,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS FIRST CENTER — $17,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark — $15,360 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSANDCASTLE CLINICAL & EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS — $15,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAINE BOYS TO MEN — $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAINE INSIDE OUT — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMaine Access Immigrant Network — $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGrahamtastic Connection — $14,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCommunity Clinical Services Inc — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEFEND OUR HEALTH — $13,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES — $11,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING — $10,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRestorative Justice Project Maine — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP CAPELLA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS MAINE CHAPTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarrington Family Health Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SANFORD-SPRINGVALE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetDunk The Junk — $9,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS — $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…John T Gorman Foundat…Bangor Savings Bank F…Maine Health Access F…Fisher Charitable Fou…Agnes M Lindsay TrustOnion FoundationSam L Cohen FoundationUnited Way IncSimmons Foundation - …
Maine Community Foundation IncME86.5× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Onion Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson

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 Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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