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Savage Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$219k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$773kHealth$234kHuman Services$198kArts & Culture$184kYouth Development$71kHousing & Shelter$13kEnvironment$5kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maine Central Institute$50,000
Northern Light Health$20,000
Waldo County YMCA$20,000
New England Baptist Hospital$20,000
University of Maine$20,000
Boston Medical Center$16,667
Bellforge Arts Center$12,500
Raw Arts$7,500
Girls Inc$7,500
Community Art Center$6,000
Families First$6,000
Charles River Watershed Association$5,000
Project Home$5,000
Project Step$5,000
Penobscot Marine Museum$5,000
02The need
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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, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Families First: $6k → 8%Project Home: $5k → 22%Families First: $5k → 8%Families First: $5k → 8%Families First: $5k → 8%Waldo County YMCA: $20k → 13%Families First: $3k → 8%Waldo County YMCA: $20k → 13%Community Art Center: $6k → 8%Wayfinder Schools: $5k → 7%Waldo County YMCA: $20k → 13%Community Art Center: $5k → 8%Waldo County YMCA: $20k → 13%Community Art Center: $5k → 8%Waldo County YMCA: $20k → 13%Community Art Center: $5k → 8%Waldo County YMCA: $19k → 13%Community Art Center: $5k → 8%Waldo County YMCA: $19k → 13%Community Art Center: $5k → 8%Waldo County YMCA: $19k → 13%Community Art Center: $5k → 8%Waldo County YMCA: $19k → 13%Community Art Center: $5k → 8%Community Art Center: $5k → 8%Horizons for Homeless Children: $3k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $3k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $3k → 16%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$1.4M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
-23%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • WC
    Waldo County YMCA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +56%
  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +115%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -23%
  • TS
    Tower School
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • WS
    WAYFINDER SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
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
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
4
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
5
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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6
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

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9
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
10
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.

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11
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
12
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Epiphany School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Katie Brown Educational Program Inc. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Maine Central Institute: $478,000 · EducationMaine Central InstituteTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC+1 more: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Maine: $180,000 · OtherUniversity of MaineIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGirls Inc: $67,500 · OtherGirls IncRaw Arts: $67,500 · OtherRaw ArtsTower School: $50,000 · OtherTower SchoolNorthern Light Health: $20,000 · Other+2 more: $6,000 · OtherWaldo County YMCA: $174,000 · Human ServicesWaldo County YMCACOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ART CENT…FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC: $23,500 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST PAR…+3 more: $17,500 · Human Services+3 moreBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $93,334 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL…NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $80,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAND BA…OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $20,000 · HealthOASIS HEALTH N…LIFE FLIGHT NETWORK FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthLIFE FLIGHT NE…Project STEP Inc: $39,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM: $11,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentKATIE BROWN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $3,500 · Youth Development
Education$538,000Other$486,000Human Services$261,000Health$208,334Arts & Culture$70,000Environment$5,000Crime & Legal$5,000Youth Development$3,500

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 budgetMaine Central Institute: $478,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetWaldo County YMCA: $174,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $93,334 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $46,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetProject STEP Inc: $39,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC: $23,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLIFE FLIGHT NETWORK FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM: $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKATIE BROWN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWaldo County General Hospital: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Maine Central Institute ↗
  • Who funds Waldo County YMCA ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Project STEP Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LIFE FLIGHT NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KATIE BROWN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
  • Who funds Waldo County General Hospital ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Maine Community Found…Haven TrustMiddlecott FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Liberty Mutual Founda…Agnes M Lindsay TrustFidelity FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Boston Foundation IncMA17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Haven Trust · Middlecott Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Fidelity Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Savage Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Savage Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Community Art Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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.

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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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