· Private foundation
The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE BRACY MEMORIAL TRUST FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 5 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO QUALIFIED | $5,100 |
| READFIELD UNION MEETING HOUSE | $5,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NORTH BERWICK | $5,000 |
| READFIELD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MAINEGENERAL HEALTH | $4,000 |
| MAINE-DARTMOUTH FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY | $3,500 |
| SPECTRUM GENERATIONS | $2,500 |
| FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| MAINEGENERAL MEDICAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| PROTECTORS OF ANIMAL LIFE SOCIETY IMA | $2,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY WATERVILLE AREA | $2,000 |
| KENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S CARE CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENNEBEC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- RUREADFIELD UNION MEETING HOUSE CO7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +17%
- MFMaine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency8× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +55%
- FVFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT8× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- 6S6 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO QUALIFIEDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- MCMAINE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH N BERWIone grant, 2017 · $5k
- RMREADFIELD MEETING HOUSE CO INCone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…
The mission of the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust is to conserve, restore, and instill appreciation of the land and water resources of the Kennebec Estuary for the benefit of today's communities and future generations.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champlain College Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Humane Society Waterville Area. 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 47 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% 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.
19 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. 19 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 READFIELD UNION MEETING HOUSE CO ↗
- Who funds Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds PROTECTORS OF ANIMAL LIFE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY WATERVILLE AREA ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds Kennebec Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LITHGOW LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENNEBEC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Viles Arboretum ↗
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: Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sheaffer Lewis J Community Pfdn · Helen W Fuller Testamentary Trust · Elsie & William Viles Foundation · Waterville Area Women's Club · Es & Mj Mayer Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Helen and George Ladd Charitable 0720995 Charitable Corporation #0720995 · United Way of Kennebec Valley · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall 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 Bracy Memorial Trust Fund 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.
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 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.