· Private foundation
The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID COAST HUNGER PREVENTION PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| OASIS HEALTH NETWORK | $10,000 |
| ART VAN | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE PLUS | $5,000 |
| MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATER | $5,000 |
| TEDFORD HOUSING INC | $5,000 |
| MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| LAUREN SWENSON MUSIC FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $5,000 |
| MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS | $4,000 |
| DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| LISBON SCHOOL DEPARTMENT | $3,601 |
| MIDCOAST LITERACY | $3,500 |
| BRUNSWICK DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION | $3,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 32% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- MCMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +103%
- OHOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +269%
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- MYMIDCOAST YOUTH THEATERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue ×21 · 79% of their budget
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- M#MSAD #75one grant, 2024 · $5k
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 Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
The Association's primary mission is to keep the tourism insdustry sustainable by providing visitors and residents with tourism information, to develop travel, tourism, and advocacy, and to promote workforce development in Maine.
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…
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.
To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
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.
Bangor Historical Society's Mission is to share the region's rich history with the community and its visitors through research, education and programs.
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…
To enhance the quality of life in Brunswick and Harpswell by providing free and equitable access to information and ideas that enlighten, inspire, enrich and entertain.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Stage Company and the most unlike its peers is Orr's & Bailey Islands Fire Department. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 71 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 Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
- Who funds OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE PLUS ↗
- Who funds Independence Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TEDFORD HOUSING ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Downtown Association ↗
- Who funds DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ARTVAN ↗
- Who funds MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds PEJEPSCOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 7 RIVERS MAINE ↗
- Who funds The Theater Project ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST LITERACY ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
- Who funds Albiston Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES OF MIDCOAST MAINE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin International Music Festival ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK ROTARY CLUB CO CYNTHIA SMITH ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY ↗
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 · Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Reny Charitable Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
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 The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust 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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