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The Anonimo 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.
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 $10k9 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $525k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERFALL ARTS | $60,000 |
| ASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| RSU #13 | $43,600 |
| HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY | $40,500 |
| SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIAITON | $40,000 |
| MAINE INSIDE OUT | $33,100 |
| DAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| MIDCOAST MUSIC ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| BELFAST FLYING SHOES | $24,800 |
| FRIENDS OF ROCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| A COMPANY OF GIRLS | $17,500 |
| GREAT SALT BAY CSD | $17,000 |
| BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS | $16,600 |
| 317 MAIN ST COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER | $16,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,600 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +27% since the first grant, against -36% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 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
- SLSKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $256k · revenue +75%
- HRHEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY6× · 2020–2025 · $253k · revenue +4%
- AWASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $222k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- FOFIGURES OF SPEECH THEATREone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -36%
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.
To provide live theater and theater education to the public in southern maine.
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…
Maine string teachers and players association exists to support all string teachers and performers in maine. currently we have members from all over the state of maine, teaching elementary, middle school and high school programs, as well…
To engage our community in the shared experience of a broad range of exceptional live music and support musicians at all stages of their artistic journey.
The Saco River Theatres mission is art, culture and the community.
To enrich generations of musicians by providing quality music education and private music lessons to as broad an audience as possible.
Maine State Ballets mission to uplift the Maine community through inspiring dance education and performance.
To operate and support an independent music school on rock and contemporary music. The Academy is dedicated to creating positive life experiences for Maine students of all ages and abilities through innovative and inclusive music programs…
To stage the finest professional opera productions in Southeastern New England. To excite and build audiences for the enjoyment of a grand art form. To offer educational programs and creative community outreach events that expand the opera…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Chamber Concerts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum 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 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 41 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 WATERFALL ARTS ↗
- Who funds SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAINE INSIDE OUT ↗
- Who funds DAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Midcoast Music Academy ↗
- Who funds BELFAST FLYING SHOES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds 317 Main St Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PIHCINTU ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Traditional Music Association ↗
- Who funds A Company of Girls ↗
- Who funds EASTPORT ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds ARTVAN ↗
- Who funds Salt Bay Chamberfest ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
- Who funds ISLAND READERS & WRITERS AN INITIATIVE FOR MAINE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BEARNSTOW ↗
- Who funds 240 STRINGS ↗
- Who funds Maine Alliance for Arts Education ↗
- Who funds WALDOBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Belfast Free Library ↗
- Who funds FIGURES OF SPEECH THEATRE ↗
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 · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Maine Humanities Council · Leonard C & Mildred F Ferguson Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 The Anonimo 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 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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