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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.

$420k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$654kHealth$636kEnvironment$330kRecreation & Sports$292kYouth Development$154kArts & Culture$99kFood & Nutrition$93kPublic Benefit$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $150k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
$7,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Melanoma Research Foundation$39,500
Darien Nature Center$30,000
Friends of Yogi Inc$25,000
Project ALS$25,000
Alzheimer's' Association$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
Grand Strand Miracle League$10,000
Central Maine Collaborative$10,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%dZi Foundation: $8k → 7%Camp CaPella: $30k → 11%dZi Foundation: $5k → 7%dZi Foundation: $5k → 7%Bangor Region YMCA: $5k → 15%dZi Foundation: $5k → 7%Bangor Region YMCA: $5k → 15%dZi Foundation: $5k → 7%dZi Foundation: $3k → 7%Bangor Region YMCA: $5k → 15%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $1k → 12%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $1k → 12%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $1k → 12%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $1k → 12%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $1k → 12%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CO
VA
SC
DC
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 60 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
19

Total granted

$2.4M
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+58%

Still filing today

60%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & 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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $206k · revenue +13%
  • EC
    Earlham College Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +30%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $143k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CC
    CAMP CAPELLA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +83%
  • FO
    Friends of Haystack Mountain
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • NH
    Norwalk Hospital
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
2
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

—
3
30 Mile River Watershed Association

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…

Environment
4
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative

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…

Animals
5
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
6
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
7
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
8
The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc

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.

Environment
9
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…

—
10
Maine Medical Association

To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.

—
11
Maine Rivers

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…

Environment
12
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 7 Lakes Alliance Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 86 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Town of Oakland: $89,000 · OtherTown of OaklandSt Anthony Health Foundation & Flight for Life: $71,000 · OtherSt Anthony Health Foundation & Flight fo…Kennebec Valley Community College: $61,500 · OtherKennebec Valley Community CollegeMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $54,500 · OtherMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONJupiter School: $43,000 · OtherEastern Maine Medical Center (dba Northern Light): $37,000 · OtherHERRING GUT LEARNING CENTER: $33,000 · OtherLifeFlight of Maine LLC: $39,000 · OtherTHE TOWN OF DARIEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 · OtherGRAND STRAND MIRACLE LEAGUE INC: $57,200 · OtherGRAND STRAND MIRACLE LEAGUE INC+43 more: $393,900 · Other+43 moreEarlham College Inc: $177,887 · EducationEarlham College IncUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $143,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTO…The President and Trustees of Colby College: $52,000 · EducationThe President and Trust…GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGEST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVERSITYALVERNO COLLEGE: $34,000 · EducationALVERNO COLLEGEEDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE: $34,000 · EducationEDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE+1 more: $4,000 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $206,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE…PROJECT ALS INC: $110,000 · HealthPROJECT ALS INCAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $63,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL…DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC: $40,400 · HealthDARIEN EMS POST 53 …+1 more: $14,000 · HealthDARIEN NATURE CENTER INC: $73,411 · EnvironmentDARIEN NATUR…NORTH POND ASSOCIATION INC: $40,500 · EnvironmentNORTH POND A…7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC: $32,689 · Environment7 LAKES ALLI…SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION: $32,000 · EnvironmentSAN JUAN MOU…Dolores River Boating Advocates: $31,000 · EnvironmentDolores Rive…FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC: $26,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF W…GOALS: $16,000 · EnvironmentGOALSMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE: $12,500 · EnvironmentHERRING GUT COASTAL SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF YOGI INC: $142,100 · Arts & CultureMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $22,000 · Arts & CultureWATERVILLE CREATES: $11,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $122,000 · Youth DevelopmentDZI FOUNDATION: $31,000 · Human ServicesCAMP CAPELLA INC: $30,300 · Human ServicesBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE AR: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$915,100Education$539,887Health$433,400Environment$274,100Arts & Culture$188,100Youth Development$122,000Human Services$82,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $206,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $177,887 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $143,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOGI INC: $142,100 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $122,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDARIEN NATURE CENTER INC: $73,411 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $63,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND STRAND MIRACLE LEAGUE INC: $57,200 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $54,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $52,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH POND ASSOCIATION INC: $40,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetDARIEN EMS POST 53 INC: $40,400 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLifeFlight of Maine LLC: $39,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOWN OF DARIEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetALVERNO COLLEGE: $34,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE: $34,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budget7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC: $32,689 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION: $32,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDolores River Boating Advocates: $31,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetDZI FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP CAPELLA INC: $30,300 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC: $26,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOALS: $16,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWATERVILLE CREATES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERRING GUT COASTAL SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCOPE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPADILLA BAY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetNORTHWEST STRAITS MARINE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAVIAN HAVEN: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY WATERVILLE AREA: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSomerset County Park Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE AR: $5,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetST GEORGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMaine Academy of Natural Sciences: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetWATERVILLE AREA SOUP KITCHEN: $3,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCURTAIN UP ENTERPRISES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAINE BREAST CANCER COALITION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFriends of Quarry Road: $2,000 over 2y, 1.7% 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 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 ↗

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…Bangor Savings Bank F…Kennebec Savings Bank…Bill and Joan Alfond …Onion FoundationThe President and Tru…Lunder FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Waterville Area Women…Raymond J and Mary C …Harold Alfond Foundat…Franklin Savings Bank…
Maine Community Foundation IncME37.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Darien Nature Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Borman Family 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 86 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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