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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.

$676k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.2MEducation$716kYouth Development$213kEmployment$90kHealth$62kEnvironment$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $525k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SPINDLEWORKS$16,600
Individual grant recipient$16,600
BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS$16,600
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WATERFALL ARTS: $100k → 13%WATERFALL ARTS: $60k → 13%WATERFALL ARTS: $60k → 13%WATERFALL ARTS: $55k → 13%WATERFALL ARTS: $50k → 13%WATERFALL ARTS: $50k → 13%BELFAST FLYING SHOES: $25k → 13%BELFAST FLYING SHOES: $23k → 13%BELFAST FLYING SHOES: $23k → 13%BELFAST FLYING SHOES: $23k → 13%ASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL: $50k → 11%BELFAST FLYING SHOES: $23k → 13%ASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL: $45k → 11%BELFAST FLYING SHOES: $23k → 13%ASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL: $45k → 11%SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIAITON: $62k → 9%ASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL: $45k → 11%SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIAITON: $59k → 9%ASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL: $30k → 11%HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY: $50k → 9%MIDCOAST MUSIC ACADEMY: $27k → 11%SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIAITON: $47k → 9%MIDCOAST MUSIC ACADEMY: $25k → 11%DAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION: $47k → 9%MIDCOAST MUSIC ACADEMY: $25k → 11%HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY: $47k → 9%HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY: $41k → 9%DAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION: $33k → 7%SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIAITON: $40k → 9%DAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION: $23k → 7%HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY: $40k → 9%DAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION: $23k → 7%HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY: $38k → 9%HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY: $38k → 9%SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIAITON: $28k → 9%FRIENDS OF DAPONTE STRING QUARTET: $23k → 9%RSU #13: $44k → 11%FRIENDS OF DAPONTE STRING QUARTET: $23k → 9%RSU #13: $41k → 11%RSU #13: $41k → 11%RSU #13: $40k → 11%RSU #13: $40k → 11%RSU #13: $40k → 11%FARNSWORTH MUSEUM: $35k → 11%FARNSWORTH MUSEUM: $35k → 11%FARNSWORTH MUSEUM: $35k → 11%FARNSWORTH MUSEUM: $35k → 11%MIDCOAST MUSIC ACADEMY: $27k → 11%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 39 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
1

Total granted

$3.7M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-36%

Still filing today

69%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 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 & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SL
    SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $256k · revenue +75%
  • HR
    HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $253k · revenue +4%
  • AW
    ASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $222k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • FO
    FIGURES OF SPEECH THEATRE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -36%
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
Portland Theater Festival

To provide live theater and theater education to the public in southern maine.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Maine String Teachers and Players Association

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…

Education
4
One Longfellow Square

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
The Saco River Theatre

The Saco River Theatres mission is art, culture and the community.

Arts & Culture
7
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
8
Portland Conservatory of Music

To enrich generations of musicians by providing quality music education and private music lessons to as broad an audience as possible.

Arts & Culture
9
Maine State Ballet

Maine State Ballets mission to uplift the Maine community through inspiring dance education and performance.

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10
Maine Academy of Modern Music

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Salt Marsh Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Chamber Concerts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WATERFALL ARTS: $375,000 · Arts & CultureWATERFALL ARTSHEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY: $252,500 · Arts & CultureHEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANYMAINE INSIDE OUT: $173,100 · Arts & CultureMAINE INSIDE OUTTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC: $166,250 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INCMidcoast Music Academy: $144,000 · Arts & CultureMidcoast Music AcademyBELFAST FLYING SHOES INC: $137,300 · Arts & CultureBELFAST FLYING SHOES INC317 Main St Community Center Inc: $91,600 · Arts & CultureBAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $91,600 · Arts & CulturePIHCINTU: $88,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC: $77,500 · Arts & CultureMaine Traditional Music Association: $76,300 · Arts & CultureA Company of Girls: $76,000 · Arts & CultureWATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS: $71,300 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $196,100 · Arts & Culture+4 moreRSU #13: $244,100 · OtherRSU #13ASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL: $222,200 · OtherASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOLDAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION: $169,500 · OtherDAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATIONSPINDLEWORKS: $89,600 · OtherSPINDLEWORKSGREAT SALT BAY CSD: $77,000 · OtherGREAT SALT BAY CSDIndividual grant recipient: $76,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEASTPORT ARTS CENTER: $73,000 · OtherEASTPORT ARTS CENTERMERRYMEETING ARTS CENTER: $62,630 · OtherWATERSHED SCHOOL: $40,000 · Other+7 more: $127,700 · Other+7 moreSKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $255,820 · EducationSKIDOMPHA LIB…FRIENDS OF ROCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $103,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF RO…ISLAND READERS & WRITERS AN INITIATIVE FOR MAINE CHILDREN: $60,000 · EducationISLAND READER…+3 more: $23,850 · Education+3 moreThe Telling Room: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBEARNSTOW: $52,500 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$2,016,550Other$1,182,330Education$443,170Youth Development$60,000Recreation & Sports$52,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWATERFALL ARTS: $375,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetSKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $255,820 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetHEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY: $252,500 over 6y, 23% of budgetASHWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL: $222,200 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetMAINE INSIDE OUT: $173,100 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetDAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION: $169,500 over 6y, 17% of budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC: $166,250 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMidcoast Music Academy: $144,000 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetBELFAST FLYING SHOES INC: $137,300 over 6y, 48% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $103,500 over 6y, 34% of budget317 Main St Community Center Inc: $91,600 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $91,600 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPIHCINTU: $88,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC: $77,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMaine Traditional Music Association: $76,300 over 6y, 15% of budgetA Company of Girls: $76,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetEASTPORT ARTS CENTER: $73,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetWATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS: $71,300 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetARTVAN: $62,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetSalt Bay Chamberfest: $62,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetThe Telling Room: $60,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetISLAND READERS & WRITERS AN INITIATIVE FOR MAINE CHILDREN: $60,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetBEARNSTOW: $52,500 over 5y, 10% of budget240 STRINGS: $41,600 over 5y, 15% of budgetMaine Alliance for Arts Education: $30,500 over 6y, 16% of budgetWALDOBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY: $11,650 over 4y, 29% of budgetBelfast Free Library: $11,400 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetFIGURES OF SPEECH THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBOWDOINHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY: $800 over 1y, 0.8% 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 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 317 Main St Community Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS 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 ↗

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…Onion FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Morton-Kelly Charitab…The Bob Crewe Foundat…Fisher Charitable Fou…Sam L Cohen FoundationVirginia Hodgkins Som…Maine Humanities Coun…Leonard C & Mildred F…Horizon Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…
Maine Community Foundation IncME46.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Anonimo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Anonimo Foundation 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 41 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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