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Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$180k
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$268kEducation$251kHuman Services$167kFood & Nutrition$120kArts & Culture$94kYouth Development$69kHousing & Shelter$54kRecreation & Sports$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k67 grants · $170k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Southern Maine Scholarship Dept$10,000
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries$5,000
Central Lincoln County YMCA$5,000
Gould Academy$5,000
Foundation for Portland Public Schools$5,000
Portland Symphony Orchestra$5,000
Community Clinical Services Inc$4,000
Frannie Peabody Center$4,000
VOA Northern New England$4,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid Maine$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
The Iris Network$4,000
Mount Desert Nursing Association$4,000
Junior Achievement of Maine$3,500
Inn Along the Way$3,300
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 (FY17–24, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $3k → 15%Camp CaPella: $4k → 11%YMCA Central Maine: $3k → 13%Waldo Community Action Partners: $2k → 13%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $1k → 15%Bangor Region YMCA: $3k → 15%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $5k → 9%Island Connections: $2k → 11%Bangor Region YMCA: $3k → 15%Island Connections: $1k → 11%Penquis CAP Inc: $2k → 15%Bangor Region YMCA: $2k → 15%American Red Cross: $4k → 7%Inn Along the Way: $3k → 9%Bangor Region YMCA: $2k → 15%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $3k → 9%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $2k → 15%American Red Cross: $3k → 7%AIO Food and Energy Assistance: $2k → 11%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $3k → 15%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $1k → 15%The Progress Center: $3k → 13%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $3k → 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $3k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $3k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $2k → 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $2k → 7%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $10k → 7%Preble Street: $5k → 7%Preble Street: $3k → 7%Preble Street: $3k → 7%Greater Porland Immigrant Welcome Center: $3k → 7%Preble Street: $3k → 7%Preble Street: $3k → 7%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $2k → 7%Preble Street: $2k → 7%Peregrine Corporation: $5k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $3k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $2k → 7%Family and Community Mediation: $2k → 7%Family and Community Mediation: $2k → 7%Riding To The Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $2k → 7%Riding To The Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $2k → 7%Harpswell Aging At Home: $4k → 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$827k · 82 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
96

Total granted

$827k
$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+28%

Still filing today

84%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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 ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CD
    COMMUNITY DENTAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +36%
  • HO
    Hospice of Southern Maine
    7× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +35%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    6× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • LF
    LifeFlight Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +47%
  • RC
    ROLLINS COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +32%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House of ME
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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 GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
4
Harbor House Community Service Center

To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.

Community Improvement
5
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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6
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
7
Maine Pretrial Services

Provide low-income defendants assistance in obtaining pretrial release and supervision.

—
8
Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

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9
Gateway Community Services Maine

Gateway Community Service seeks to encourage, support and build healthy connections with oneself and others in order to promote vibrancy and well-being, along with welcoming communities where all people feel accepted, valued and have a…

Human Services
10
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…

—
11
Fork Food Lab

Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…

Environment
12
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
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 Portland Wheelers. 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

166 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. 166 of the 215 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
162/166
Grantees still filing
123/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Southern Maine: $114,000 · OtherUniversity of Southern MaineMCH Inc: $21,000 · Other+107 more: $418,068 · Other+107 moreHospice of Southern Maine: $27,500 · Human ServicesHospice of South…PREBLE STREET: $18,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREETGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PORTLAND…Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $13,500 · Human ServicesSouthern Maine A…FURNITURE FRIENDS: $13,400 · Human ServicesFURNITURE FRIEND…BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 · Human ServicesEastern Area Agency on Aging: $6,570 · Human ServicesTHROUGH THESE DOORS: $6,000 · Human Services+17 more: $53,300 · Human Services+17 moreCOMMUNITY DENTAL: $29,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY DENT…Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc: $14,000 · HealthRonald McDonal…Robbie Foundation: $13,500 · HealthRobbie Foundat…Sunrise Opportunities: $9,000 · HealthSunrise Opport…MID-COAST HEALTH NET INC: $8,500 · HealthMID-COAST HEAL…MILESTONE RECOVERY: $8,000 · HealthMILESTONE RECO…THE CROMWELL CENTER FOR DISABILITIES AWARENESS: $6,000 · HealthLifeFlight Foundation: $5,000 · HealthKENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $5,000 · HealthFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC: $5,000 · HealthCalais Community Hospital: $5,000 · HealthOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $5,000 · Health+11 more: $32,500 · Health+11 moreGOULD ACADEMY: $44,000 · EducationGOULD ACAD…Hebron Academy Incorporated: $34,000 · EducationHebron Aca…WOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $6,500 · EducationWOODFORDS …Literacy Volunteers of Bangor: $5,500 · EducationROLLINS COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationMIDCOAST LITERACY: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $5,900 · Education+3 moreMAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $10,500 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,500 · Arts & CultureMaine Jewish Film Festival: $9,500 · Arts & CultureMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDENMARK ARTS CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSailing Ships Portland: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4,500 · Arts & CulturePALAVER STRINGS INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTEAR CAP WORKSHOPS: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $17,500 · Arts & CultureGood Shepherd Food Bank: $23,500 · Food & NutritionLocker Project: $12,000 · Food & NutritionWayside Food Programs: $7,500 · Food & NutritionTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $5,500 · Food & NutritionMaine Farmland Trust: $5,000 · Food & NutritionAUGUSTA FOOD BANK: $4,500 · Food & NutritionHARRISON FOOD BANK: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $4,000 · Food & NutritionANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $13,500 · AnimalsMIDCOAST HUMANE: $9,000 · AnimalsBangor Humane Society: $4,000 · AnimalsMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS: $3,000 · Animals
Other$553,068Human Services$169,270Health$146,000Education$105,900Arts & Culture$79,000Food & Nutrition$65,000Animals$29,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGOULD ACADEMY: $44,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHebron Academy Incorporated: $34,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL: $29,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $27,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $23,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Iris Network: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRobbie Foundation: $13,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $13,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFURNITURE FRIENDS: $13,400 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLocker Project: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVolunteers of America Northern New England: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Jewish Film Festival: $9,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSunrise Opportunities: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRANNIE PEABODY CENTER: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDCOAST HUMANE: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMID-COAST HEALTH NET INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMILESTONE RECOVERY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK: $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Area Agency on Aging: $6,570 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPINE TREE HOSPICE: $6,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHROUGH THESE DOORS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CROMWELL CENTER FOR DISABILITIES AWARENESS: $6,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCommon Threads of Maine: $5,750 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTREKKERS INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Bangor: $5,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMIDCOAST LITERACY: $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 GOULD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Hebron Academy Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
  • Who funds The Iris Network ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc ↗
  • Who funds Robbie Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
  • Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds Locker Project ↗
  • Who funds Volunteers of America Northern New England ↗
  • Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
  • Who funds MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds AVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Maine Jewish Film Festival ↗
  • Who funds Sunrise Opportunities ↗
  • Who funds BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FRANNIE PEABODY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MIDCOAST HUMANE ↗
  • Who funds MID-COAST HEALTH NET INC ↗
  • Who funds MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Eastern Area Agency on Aging ↗
  • Who funds Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc ↗

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…Fisher Charitable Fou…Sam L Cohen FoundationJohn T Gorman Foundat…Bangor Savings Bank F…Elmina B Sewall Found…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Davis Family Foundati…Agnes M Lindsay TrustNarragansett Number O…Saco & Biddeford Savi…Maine Health Access F…
Maine Community Foundation IncME168.1× affinity136 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Narragansett Number One Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
51report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson 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 215 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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