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Tagliabue Family Foundation at a glance

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Tagliabue Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$162k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$393kHuman Services$210kScience & Tech$125kEnvironment$100kHealth$50kHousing & Shelter$42kPublic Benefit$20kAnimals$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $142k
$66,667
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES$75,000
BOOTHBAY REGION YMCA$66,667
REBUILDING TOGETHER - LINCOLN COUNTY$10,000
BOOTHBAY REGION COMMUNITY RESOURCE COUNCIL$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DESTINATION TOMORROW: $3k → 28%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$410k · 5 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$410k
$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’22’24’25
EnvironmentHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitScience & TechEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region
    4× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +33%
  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER-LINCOLN COUNTY
    4× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +187%
  • BR
    BOOTHBAY REGION COMMUNITY RESOURCE COUNCIL
    3× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • BH
    Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation
    one grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue -71%
  • M
    MAINEHEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESOURCE COUNCIL
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
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
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
2
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
3
Boothbay Region Land Trust

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.

Environment
4
Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation

Preserving our Maritime Heritage by supporting working waterfront, promoting sustainable practices, and embracing the educational opportunities this stewardship provides.

Environment
5
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
6
Maine Island Trail Association

The mission of the Maine Island Trail Association is to advance a model of thoughtful use and volunteer stewardship of Maine's wild islands, creating an inspiring recreational water trail that is cared for by the people who use it.

Environment
7
Frenchman Bay Conservancy

Frenchman Bay Conservancy protects and cares for our local lands and waters for the benefit of communities and nature.

Environment
8
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
9
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
10
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
11
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
12
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Mid Coast Maine Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Sterling Donor Advised Fund. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND: $385,000 · PhilanthropyTHE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUNDYoung Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region: $199,667 · OtherYoung Men's Christian Association…MAINEHEALTH: $50,000 · OtherMAINEHEALTHCOMMUNITY RESOURCE COUNCIL: $16,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY RESOURCE COUNCILFREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $13,000 · OtherBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $125,000 · Science & TechBigelow Labora…Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation: $80,000 · EnvironmentBoothbay Ha…Squirrel Island Preservation Foundation: $15,235 · EnvironmentSquirrel Is…REBUILDING TOGETHER-LINCOLN COUNTY: $42,000 · Housing & ShelterBOOTHBAY REGION COMMUNITY RESOURCE COUNCIL: $28,000 · Public BenefitIsland Institute: $5,000 · Education
Philanthropy$385,000Other$288,667Science & Tech$125,000Environment$95,235Housing & Shelter$42,000Public Benefit$28,000Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND: $385,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region: $199,667 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER-LINCOLN COUNTY: $42,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetBOOTHBAY REGION COMMUNITY RESOURCE COUNCIL: $28,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSquirrel Island Preservation Foundation: $15,235 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MID COAST MAINE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIsland Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESTINATION TOMORROW INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Sterling Donor Ad…Maine Community Found…Palmer Walbridge Foun…Mildred H McEvoy Foun…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Sterling Donor Advised FundVA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sterling Donor Advised Fund · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Palmer Walbridge Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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