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Schiavi 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.

$918k
Granted FY2025still arriving
72
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$789kReligion$649kRecreation & Sports$436kEducation$386kHealth$352kInternational$337kFood & Nutrition$232kYouth Development$219kOther$0
02FY2025 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $420k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $334k
$7,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Agassiz Village$70,000
Harrison Food Bank$56,000
Jesse's House$55,000
Ronald McDonald House - ME$52,500
Susan L Curtis Foundation$50,000
Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land$50,000
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc$40,000
Gulf of Maine Research Institute$30,000
New Beginnings$30,000
Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland$30,000
University of Southern Maine$25,000
Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation$25,000
Parishes of the Western Maine Lakes and Foothills$21,000
Pink Feather Foundation$15,000
Oxford Hills Food Pantry$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $486k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%National Education for Assistance Dog Services: $5k → 11%Homeless Period Project: $5k → 10%Bald Ridge Lodge: $10k → 4%Promise 686 Inc: $8k → 9%Ferst Readers Inc: $3k → 11%Mission Working Dogs: $15k → 13%Homeless Period Project: $5k → 10%Bald Ridge Lodge: $10k → 4%Promise 686 Inc: $5k → 9%Catholic Charities New Hampshire: $10k → 9%Sweetser: $10k → 9%Go Malawi: $6k → 13%Bald Ridge Lodge: $10k → 4%Promise 686 Inc: $5k → 9%Sweetser: $5k → 9%Bald Ridge Lodge: $10k → 4%Promise 686 Inc: $8k → 9%Sweetser: $5k → 9%Bald Ridge Lodge: $6k → 4%Sweetser: $5k → 9%New Beginnings: $30k → 13%National Education for Assistance Dog Services: $5k → 11%Sweetser: $5k → 9%New Beginnings: $23k → 13%Jesse's House: $55k → 4%LearningWorks: $5k → 7%Sweetser: $5k → 9%New Beginnings: $23k → 13%Jesse's House: $20k → 4%LearningWorks: $5k → 7%New Beginnings: $20k → 13%Jesse's House: $10k → 4%LearningWorks: $5k → 7%Jesse's House: $10k → 4%Jesse's House: $6k → 4%New Beginnings: $10k → 13%New Beginnings: $8k → 13%Preble Street: $10k → 7%Preble Street: $5k → 7%Preble Street: $5k → 7%Preble Street: $5k → 7%Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $10k → 7%Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $7k → 7%Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $7k → 7%Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $7k → 7%Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $5k → 7%Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $5k → 7%LearningWorks: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MI
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CO
VA
SC
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 64 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
11

Total granted

$3.6M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+9%

Still filing today

70%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • FF
    FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION FOR THE HOLY LAND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +16%
  • HF
    HARRISON FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $179k · revenue +18%
  • TS
    The Susan L Curtis Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $171k · revenue +186%

Funded once

  • SM
    Stephens Memorial Hospital
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • HC
    HAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • CR
    CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
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
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
2
Maine Needs Inc

We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…

Human Services
3
The Genesis Fund

The mission of The Genesis Fund is to bring together resources to create housing and other economic and social opportunities for underserved people and communities throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Religion
4
Adoptive & Foster Families of Maine

Adoptive and foster families of maine inc. provides support services for adoptive and foster parents, and kinship providers. affm provides the training, guidance, knowledge, and resources needed to handle complex issues as families open…

Human Services
5
Homeworthy
Human Services
6
Maine Access Immigrant Network

MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.

Human Services
7
Wings for Children and Families Inc

Wings For Children & Families partners with families and providers to deliver quality case management services utilizing the wraparound planning process, train other system providers improve quality of care.

Health
8
Hancock County Habitat for Humanity

Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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9
Group Main Stream Incorporated

The Agency provides a residential setting to assist adults with developmental disabilities to accomplish and maintain their highest attainable living skills and to improve their quality of life by supporting independence.

—
10
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
11
Kids Corner Inc

To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.

Human Services
12
Maine Media College

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…

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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 Pink Feather Foundation. 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 90 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/70
Grantees still filing
51/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland: $270,000 · OtherRoman Catholic Diocese of PortlandRonald McDonald House - ME: $192,500 · OtherRonald McDonald House - MEAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS: $141,000 · OtherAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHSUniversity of Southern Maine: $125,000 · OtherUniversity of Southern MaineSt William Catholic Church: $100,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherMAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $70,000 · Other+38 more: $955,850 · Other+38 moreNew Beginnings: $112,500 · Human ServicesNew BeginningsJESSES HOUSE INC: $103,000 · Human ServicesJESSES HOUSE IN…BALD RIDGE LODGE INC: $48,500 · Human ServicesBALD RIDGE LODG…RIDING TO THE TOP: $41,000 · Human ServicesRIDING TO THE T…Sweetser: $35,000 · Human ServicesSweetserTHE HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS PE…Promise686 Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET: $25,000 · Human ServicesLEARNINGWORKS: $22,500 · Human Services+10 more: $68,000 · Human Services+10 moreThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $171,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Susan L C…CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $165,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP SUNSHINE…MAINE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsMAINE ADAPTIV…SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMP…BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsFRANCISCAN FOUNDATION FOR THE HOLY LAND: $300,000 · InternationalFRANCISCAN …MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $52,000 · InternationalMUSTARD SEE…Compassion International Incorporated: $31,000 · InternationalCompassion …HARRISON FOOD BANK: $179,000 · Food & NutritionTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $38,500 · Food & NutritionOXFORD HILLS FOOD PANTRY OXFORD HILLS FOOD PANTRY: $37,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $13,500 · Food & NutritionPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $60,000 · EducationPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE HARRISON VILLAGE LIBRARY: $16,500 · EducationGOULD ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationTHE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $115,000 · Animals
Other$1,954,350Human Services$510,500Recreation & Sports$443,500International$383,000Food & Nutrition$268,000Education$131,000Animals$115,000

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 budgetFRANCISCAN FOUNDATION FOR THE HOLY LAND: $300,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHARRISON FOOD BANK: $179,000 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $171,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $165,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS: $141,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew Beginnings: $112,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetJESSES HOUSE INC: $103,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetMAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $70,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROOT CELLAR: $53,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $52,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBALD RIDGE LODGE INC: $48,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Catholic Foundation of Maine: $45,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRIDING TO THE TOP: $41,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMAINE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION: $40,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRightstart: $39,500 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $38,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetOXFORD HILLS FOOD PANTRY OXFORD HILLS FOOD PANTRY: $37,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetSweetser: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJENS FRIENDS CANCER FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPINK FEATHER FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetLAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSafe Voices: $29,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPromise686 Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSpurwink Services Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $25,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABSTINENCE COALITION FOR EDUCATION NORTHEST: $25,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNINGWORKS: $22,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HARRISON VILLAGE LIBRARY: $16,500 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetMission Working Dogs: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDANIEL MEMORIAL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSPEACE CORPORATION: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFERST READERS INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGOULD ACADEMY: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEADS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN 1ST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION FOR THE HOLY LAND ↗
  • Who funds HARRISON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds New Beginnings ↗
  • Who funds JESSES HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE ROOT CELLAR ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BALD RIDGE LODGE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Catholic Foundation of Maine ↗
  • Who funds RIDING TO THE TOP ↗
  • Who funds MAINE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds Rightstart ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Jubilee Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds OXFORD HILLS FOOD PANTRY OXFORD HILLS FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds Sweetser ↗
  • Who funds JENS FRIENDS CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PINK FEATHER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PRESENCE RADIO NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗

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…John T Gorman Foundat…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Bangor Savings Bank F…Simmons Foundation - …Sam L Cohen FoundationSaco & Biddeford Savi…Narragansett Number O…Franklin Savings Bank…Good Shepherd Food Ba…Onion Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME54× affinity30 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 · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Narragansett Number One Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Onion Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
24report 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 Schiavi Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Schiavi Family Foundation 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 90 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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