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The Borman Family 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 $10k31 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Melanoma Research Foundation | $39,500 |
| Darien Nature Center | $30,000 |
| Project ALS | $25,000 |
| Alzheimer's' Association | $25,000 |
| Friends of Yogi Inc | $25,000 |
| Earlham College | $18,000 |
| Darien EMS Post 53 Inc | $15,000 |
| Kennebec Valley Community College | $14,000 |
| Mercy Hospital Foundation | $12,000 |
| St Anthony Health Foundation & Flight for Life | $12,000 |
| Alfond Youth Center | $12,000 |
| North Pond Association | $11,500 |
| Colby College | $11,000 |
| Central Maine Collaborative | $10,000 |
| Grand Strand Miracle League | $10,000 |
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, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of those 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.
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.
60 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $206k · revenue +13%
- ECEarlham College Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +30%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $143k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CCCAMP CAPELLA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +83%
- FOFriends of Haystack Mountainone grant, 2023 · $25k
- NHNorwalk Hospitalone grant, 2021 · $15k
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 Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…
The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
To promote the protection and restoration of wetlands and related aquatic resources, to apply sound science to wetland management, and to provide training, education, and capacity building for our members and the public.
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…
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
Maine Rivers is a statewide advocacy organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine's river systems. We support and direct efforts to conserve and improve the health of Maine's rivers and…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 7 Lakes Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 86 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOGI INC ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds GRAND STRAND MIRACLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH POND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight of Maine LLC ↗
- Who funds THE TOWN OF DARIEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE ↗
- Who funds HERRING GUT LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Dolores River Boating Advocates ↗
- Who funds DZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP CAPELLA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds GOALS ↗
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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · The President and Trustees of Colby College · Lunder Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Waterville Area Women's Club · Raymond J and Mary C Reisert Foundation Inc · Harold Alfond Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development 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 Borman Family 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.
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Darien Nature Center Inc — 0% 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.
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