· Private foundation
Susanna E Bedell Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $12,000 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $12,000 |
| CONCORD-CARLISLE COMMUNITY CHEST | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CONCORD CHORUS | $4,000 |
| FIRST PARISH CHURCH LINCOLN | $4,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $2,000 |
| TOWN OF CONCORD COUNCIL ON AGING | $2,000 |
| CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $1,200 |
| FIRST PARISH CHURCH WESTON | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| SERVE YOUR CITY DC MUTUAL AID | $1,000 |
| DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| GAINING GROUND | $1,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- BMBRYN MAWR COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $49k · revenue +34%
- CCCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +56%
- AFAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM4× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- TCTHE CONCORD INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +11%
- TSTREE STREET YOUTH INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +17%
- SPSPC PRESERVATION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
The mission of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Inc. is to inspire meaningful connections among people and nature and promote plant conservation through horticulture, education, and plant science.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Discovery Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Concord Chorus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 35 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Concord Free Public Library Inc ↗
- Who funds Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CONCORD INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREE STREET YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE MUSEUM OF INNOVATION LEARNING AND LABOR ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Quimby Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Onion Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Susanna E Bedell 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% 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.