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Schacknow Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE MEDICAL CENTER | $40,000 |
| Temple Judea of Palm Beach County | $15,000 |
| WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PALM BEACH INC | $12,500 |
| THE MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE | $10,000 |
| JAFCO | $10,000 |
| COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $7,500 |
| Holy Ground PBC | $7,500 |
| Palm Beach Cultural Innovation Center | $5,000 |
| Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences | $5,000 |
| Friends of Thai Daughters | $5,000 |
| Boothbay Region Amublance Service | $5,000 |
| Center for Great Apes | $5,000 |
| Southport Island Association | $3,540 |
| Henry L Stimson Center | $2,650 |
| Maasai Dreams Inc | $2,500 |
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, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% 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 +69% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 9 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- MMaineHealth7× · 2019–2025 · $208k · revenue +80%
- CMCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +132%
- WAWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PALM BEACH9× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CNCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $100k
- IWINDY WOMEN IN TECH INCone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -50%
- CFCuckolds Fog Signal and Light Station Councilone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -78%
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…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
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.
Our mission is to protect marine life in the gulf of maine through research, education and inspiring action. our most significant activities are studying marine life off the nh coast, conducting over 200 community beach cleanups each year,…
The mission of the boothbay sea and science center is the advancement of sailing, boating and ocean sciences by minimizing economic and physical obstacles and further to develop independence, self-confidence, teamwork and volunteerism in…
Waldo County General Hospital's mission is to be the BEST - Better, Empathy, Service and Teamwork. Our goal is to ensure quality, accessible and affordable health care services and to improve the health and well-being of our community.
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,…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Maine Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kids in Steam Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 109 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
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 MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PALM BEACH ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds INDY WOMEN IN TECH INC ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Cuckolds Fog Signal and Light Station Council ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Region Land Trust ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION AMBULANCE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Nicholls State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY HARBOR ONE DESIGN ASSN ↗
- Who funds Southport Island Association ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HOLY GROUND SHELTER FOR HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Palmer Walbridge Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn · Chester & Muriel Dawes Charitable Foundation · Wilson Wilde Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · A R and Marylouise Tandy Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation
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 Schacknow Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vita Nova Inc — 42% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% 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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