· Private foundation
The Bopp Family Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PATRICK'S CHURCH | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CASA CHIRILAGUA | $1,000 |
| BARBARA BUSH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| CHEVERUS HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| NCLC | $500 |
| CROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MAINE EQUAL JUSTICE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $500 |
| FALMOUTH FOOD PANTRY | $400 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE | $400 |
| THE NATHAN & HENRY B CLEAVES | $251 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN | $250 |
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 (FY17–22, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +60% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 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; $2k 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
- FFFALMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +6%
- CSCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +12%
- MMaineHealth9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- NHNAN HEALD FUND AT PINE TREE LEGALone grant, 2022 · $3k
- PHPROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITIONone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $800 · revenue -61%
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 enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…
The maine long-term care ombudsman program's mission is to ensure consumers will be empowered to protect their rights, to assure that the care they receive is of the highest quality and to advocate on their behalf as well as seek system…
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
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,…
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
To promote and ensure workers' rights
To provide free high quality legal services to maine residents aged sixty & over, who qualify for legal services under the older americans act, 42 usca sec. 3001 et seq, as amended.
It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.
MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Casa Chirilagua. 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 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 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.
33 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. 33 of the 73 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 FALMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA CHIRILAGUA ↗
- Who funds MAINE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MORRISON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Maine Equal Justice Partners ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds SACO FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern ME ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Sam L Cohen Foundation · United Way Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Narragansett Number One Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · United Way of York County · Reny Charitable Foundation
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 Bopp Family Charitable 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- National Consumer Law Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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.