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The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust at a glance

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The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$143k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$159kFood & Nutrition$148kHealth$124kHousing & Shelter$107kArts & Culture$107kCommunity Improvement$67kEducation$32kYouth Development$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MID COAST HUNGER PREVENTION PROGRAM$20,000
OASIS HEALTH NETWORK$10,000
ART VAN$5,000
BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA$5,000
PEOPLE PLUS$5,000
TEDFORD HOUSING INC$5,000
MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER$5,000
THE GATHERING PLACE$5,000
LAUREN SWENSON MUSIC FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION$5,000
MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATER$5,000
DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION$4,000
MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS$4,000
LISBON SCHOOL DEPARTMENT$3,601
TEENS OF TRAILS$3,500
BRUNSWICK DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION$3,500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ALBISTON FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%ALBISTON FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%THE ALBISTON FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%BATH AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $3k → 9%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 9%INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION: $16k → 7%INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 7%MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS: $4k → 9%MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS: $4k → 9%MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS: $2k → 9%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $7k → 7%MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS: $2k → 9%INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION: $7k → 7%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 7%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 7%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%EMBRACE A VET: $4k → 7%EMBRACE A VET: $4k → 7%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 7%INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 7%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$781k · 44 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
20

Total granted

$781k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+6%

Still filing today

80%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • MC
    Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program
    6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +103%
  • OH
    OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +269%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • MY
    MIDCOAST YOUTH THEATERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue ×21 · 79% of their budget
  • M#
    MSAD #75
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Maine Tourism Association

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.

—
5
Maine Media College

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…

—
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
Sail Maine

To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.

Arts & Culture
8
Maine Arts Academy

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…

Education
9
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
10
Bangor Historical Society

Bangor Historical Society's Mission is to share the region's rich history with the community and its visitors through research, education and programs.

—
11
Maine & Company

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…

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12
Brunswick Public Library Association d/b/a Curtis Memorial Library

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Stage Company; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 71 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
37/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $75,000 · OtherMid Coast Hunger Prevention ProgramPEOPLE PLUS: $42,780 · OtherPEOPLE PLUSVILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $18,000 · OtherGROWING TO GIVE: $15,500 · OtherPEJEPSCOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14,617 · OtherHOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH: $15,500 · OtherTHE GATHERING PLACE: $29,500 · OtherTHE GATHERING PLACEELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $22,500 · Other+32 more: $199,160 · Other+32 moreIndependence Association Inc: $38,300 · Human ServicesIndependence Ass…DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesDEAN SNELL CANCE…BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $27,500 · Human ServicesBATH AREA FAMILY…MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesMAINE PAWS FOR V…Albiston Foundation: $8,500 · Human ServicesAlbiston Foundat…+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesARTVAN: $27,000 · Arts & CultureARTVANMAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE STATE …The Theater Project: $11,720 · Arts & CultureThe Theater …Bowdoin International Music Festival: $7,000 · Arts & CultureBowdoin Inte…PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,500 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND MAI…MIDCOAST YOUTH THEATER: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $9,443 · Arts & Culture+5 moreOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $55,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthGood Shepherd Food Bank: $49,500 · Food & NutritionMaine Federation of Farmers Markets: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,700 · Food & NutritionBrunswick Downtown Association: $30,725 · EnvironmentBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc: $9,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,000 · EnvironmentHarpswell Heritage Land Trust: $3,000 · EnvironmentEcology Education Inc: $3,000 · EnvironmentKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $2,000 · EnvironmentTEDFORD HOUSING: $35,953 · Housing & ShelterBATH HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$432,557Human Services$126,800Arts & Culture$95,663Health$56,000Food & Nutrition$54,200Environment$53,725Housing & Shelter$38,953

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $75,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $55,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $49,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE PLUS: $42,780 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetIndependence Association Inc: $38,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTEDFORD HOUSING: $35,953 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBrunswick Downtown Association: $30,725 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetDEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $29,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $27,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARTVAN: $27,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetMAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $22,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC: $19,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH: $15,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetPEJEPSCOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14,617 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY 7 RIVERS MAINE: $13,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Theater Project: $11,720 over 2y, 10% of budgetMIDCOAST LITERACY: $11,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMIDCOAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $9,220 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine: $9,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAlbiston Foundation: $8,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES OF MIDCOAST MAINE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBowdoin International Music Festival: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTS ARE ELEMENTARY: $5,500 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH THEATER: $5,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATTEN FREE LIBRARY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOrr's & Bailey Islands Fire Department: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTeens to Trails: $3,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMaine Federation of Farmers Markets: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHANCE RIVER EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBRUNSWICK AREA RESPITE PROGRAM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHarpswell Heritage Land Trust: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEcology Education Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBath Area Back Pack Program: $3,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOLLEGE GUILD: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBATH HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMain Street Bath: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSIX RIVERS YOUTH SPORTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVIRGINIA PROJECT INC MAINE'S FIRST SHIP: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

  • 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 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
  • Who funds Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Atlantic Federal Cred…Davis Family Foundati…Sam L Cohen FoundationOnion FoundationSimmons Foundation - …Bangor Savings Bank F…Fisher Charitable Fou…Agnes M Lindsay TrustStephen & Tabitha Kin…Reny Charitable Found…Morton-Kelly Charitab…
Maine Community Foundation IncME67.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 71 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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