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Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ANDROSCOGGIN LAND TRUST$25,000
MAINE EQUAL JUSTICE$25,000
SAFEBAE$25,000
VILES ARBORETUM$25,000
HEARTY ROOTS$25,000
LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION$25,000
HARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN$20,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MID-MAINE$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

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 (FY17–20, $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. Its 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%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $11k → 13%MAINE ACCESS IMMIGRANT NETWORK: $15k → 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.
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.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$241k · 14 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
75

Total granted

$241k
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+24%

Still filing today

93%
52%

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
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

  • Foundation for Portland Public Schools
    2× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +104%
  • MP
    My Place Teen Center Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +208%
  • FP
    FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +632%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M · revenue +20% · 58% of their budget
  • MC
    Maine Community Foundation- Ptrnshp for Children's Oral Health
    one grant, 2022 · $950k
  • CO
    Children's Oral Health Network of Maine
    one grant, 2021 · $400k
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
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
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 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 105 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/70
Grantees still filing
45/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 CHILDR…Maine Community Foundation- Ptrnshp for Children's Oral Health: $950,000 · OtherMaine Community Foundation- Ptrnshp for …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 …+57 more: $722,913 · Other+57 moreTHE HARRY E DAVIS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH: $1,050,000 · HealthTHE HARRY E DAV…MaineHealth Services: $125,172 · HealthMaineHealth Ser…+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 ServicesUPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAMP CAPELLA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYWCA Central Maine: $10,000 · Human ServicesDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFURNITURE FRIENDS: $8,500 · Human ServicesMIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $7,500 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Human ServicesFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $5,000 · Human ServicesMy Place Teen Center Inc: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN 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 DevelopmentViles Arboretum: $25,000 · EnvironmentANDROSCOGGIN LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS: $15,000 · EnvironmentDEFEND OUR HEALTH: $13,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$4,146,256Other$3,372,913Health$1,316,172Arts & Culture$215,000Human Services$147,000Youth Development$95,360Environment$78,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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: $1,050,000 over 1y, 58% 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 budgetSafeBae Org Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetViles Arboretum: $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetANDROSCOGGIN LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $22,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAUGUSTA FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLocker Project: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRobbie Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK: $18,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS FIRST CENTER: $17,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $15,360 over 1y, 1.2% 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 budgetMaine Access Immigrant Network: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSANDCASTLE CLINICAL & EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS: $15,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAINE INSIDE OUT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 budgetAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarrington Family Health Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SANFORD-SPRINGVALE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCAMP CAPELLA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRestorative Justice Project Maine: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS MAINE CHAPTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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…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

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 Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 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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