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Susan & George Craig Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOOTHBAY REGION YMCA | $50,000 |
| BOOTHBAY OPERA HOUSE | $35,000 |
| BOOTHBAY COMMUNITY RESOURCE COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BOOTHBAY REGION HISTORICAL | $15,000 |
| BOOTHBAY SEA SCIENCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| MARINE MAMMALS OF MAINE | $10,000 |
| MAINE PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $7,000 |
| BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND | $7,000 |
| HARBOR THEATER BOOTHBAY | $6,000 |
| BOOTHBAY REGION DISTRICT NURSING | $6,000 |
| GRAND BANKS SCHOONER MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| LIFE FLIGHT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AVIAN HAVEN | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR LIFE | $3,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% 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 +113% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 11 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- BRBoothbay Region Maritime Foundation4× · 2018–2022 · $86k · revenue +273%
- BRBOOTHBAY REGION HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2018–2024 · $81k · revenue +105%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region2× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- BRBOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $30k
- LFLAND FOR SOUTHPORT'S FUTUREone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -98%
The Madeira Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +157%
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.
The mission of the Maine Lighthouse Museum is to educate the public regarding the long-standing traditions, heroism and progress of America's Lighthouse and Lifesaving services and the United States Coast Guard through the conservation and…
Maine Coast Heritage Trust advances the conservation of lands and waters in Maine to ensure ecological well-being and foster thriving communities. MCHT provides statewide conservation leadership through its work with land trusts, coastal…
To preserve Maine's heritage through programs, publications, and events that promote, advocate, and build support for the Maine State Museum.
The Sea Meadow Marine Foundation preserves Maine's working waterfront through a collaborative, sustainable approach to regenerate our coast, improve marine and public health, and protect our maritime heritage. We strive to integrate…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
To conserve for the public benefit natural habitat, scenic beauty, and working land of the Boothbay region of Maine by providing stewardship, public access, and environmental programs.
To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Maritime Museum and the most unlike its peers is Giles Family Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 52 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 Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds LAND FOR SOUTHPORT'S FUTURE ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds GRAND BANKS SCHOONER MUSEUM TRUST ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammals of Maine ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN ↗
- Who funds MAINE PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds AVIAN HAVEN ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight of Maine LLC ↗
- Who funds MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds GILES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse for Life ↗
- Who funds Sailing Ships Portland ↗
- Who funds Maine Cancer Foundation ↗
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 · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Susan & George Craig 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 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.
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