· Private foundation
Sheaffer Lewis J Community Pfdn
Its FY2023 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 FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $324k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER | $80,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $60,000 |
| AUGUSTA FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $35,000 |
| KENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| THE CAPITAL AREA RECREATION ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS CENTER | $25,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GARDINER | $20,000 |
| SPECTRUM GENERATIONS | $20,000 |
| AUGUSTA COLONIAL THEATER | $20,000 |
| GARDINER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $18,750 |
| TURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| PALS NO-KILL CAT SHELTER | $15,000 |
| KENNEBEC VALLEY YMCA | $15,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The bangor public library strives to inspire, enlighten, and enrich its members by connecting them to books, information, and ideas needed for work, recreation, education, and inspiration by providing excellent library service to its…
To inspire and enable our communities to discover, learn and connect.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Public library
To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.
Wiscasset public librarys goal is to provide access to innovateive library services, delivered in an efficient and effective manner that will assist everyone to contiune to grow and learn throughout their lives. provide
To provide a program for young men in a unique, one-year postgraduate environment to prepare for the rigors of college and beyond.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kennebec Valley Ymca and the most unlike its peers is Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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 AUGUSTA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Kennebec Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds TURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY MANAGER ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA TEEN CENTER OF THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Viles Arboretum ↗
- Who funds WINTHROP FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LITHGOW LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds AMDA INC (AMERICAN MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC ACADEMY) ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Elsie & William Viles Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund · United Way of Kennebec Valley · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Helen W Fuller Testamentary Trust · Es & Mj Mayer Foundation · Reny Charitable Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development 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 Sheaffer Lewis J Community Pfdn 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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.