· Private foundation
Skowhegan Savings Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| Mid Maine Technical Center | $75,000 |
| KVCAP Early Childhood School | $50,000 |
| Beth Brunswick Memorial Fund for Children | $50,000 |
| Maine Mountain Childrens House | $25,000 |
| Augusta Downtown Alliance | $25,000 |
| Tri County Technical Center | $25,000 |
| Jobs for Maine Graduates | $25,000 |
| Central Maine Growth Council | $25,000 |
| Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands | $15,000 |
| ProsperityME | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% 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.
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 +180% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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
- JFJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +107%
- CMCentral Maine Growth Council3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +180%
- TTTHE TRUST TO CONSERVE NORTHEAST FORESTLANDS3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +431%
Funded once
- SMSaddleback Mountain Foundationone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -100%
- SCSomerset Career & Technical Centerone grant, 2021 · $50k
- SESomerset Economic Dev Corpone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to…
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,…
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…
An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.
To serve the northern Maine region with effective regional community planning and economic development.
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…
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
To promote business and economic development in the cities of lewiston and auburn
The mission of the Corporation is to showcase the quality and diversity of foods and beverages grown or produced in the State of Maine by offering educational classes and events aimed at raising public awareness of the varied and unique…
Enhance the business climate, the quality of life, and economic wellbeing of the businesses and people of maine
Our mission is to be a catalyst for growth and development of our region through collaborative policymaking, eliminating barriers, connecting leaders, promoting prosperity, and welcoming diversity.
Maine credit union's campaign for ending hunger is committed to raising funds through a variety of ways and distributing all money raised to hunger organizations and food pantries throughout maine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The People Who Care Food Cupboard. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 50 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 Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Maine Growth Council ↗
- Who funds BETH BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL FUND FOR CH ↗
- Who funds Saddleback Mountain Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST TO CONSERVE NORTHEAST FORESTLANDS ↗
- Who funds MAINE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MID-MAINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Good Will Home Association ↗
- Who funds Greater Franklin Development Council ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE WHO CARE FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds CARE & SHARE FOOD CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
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 · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc
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 Skowhegan Savings Charitable Foundation 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.
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.