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The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Preble Street Recource Center | $20,000 |
| Avesta Housing | $16,000 |
| Portland Widows Wood Society | $10,000 |
| Opportunity Alliance | $10,000 |
| Inn at Village Square | $10,000 |
| Legal Services for the Elderly | $10,000 |
| Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $10,000 |
| Locker Project | $7,500 |
| Wayside Food Program | $7,500 |
| American Red Cross - Maine Region | $7,500 |
| Portland Wheelers | $5,000 |
| Alzheimer's Association of Maine | $5,000 |
| Tedford Housing | $5,000 |
| ITN Portland | $5,000 |
| Maine Coast Fishermens Association | $5,000 |
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, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 19% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- SMSouthern Maine Agency on Aging9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +43%
- WFWayside Food Programs8× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +56%
- SSSeventy-Five State Street8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- FOFriends of the PCFCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MHMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +30%
- MRMILESTONE RECOVERYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +156%
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.
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.
The Agency provides a residential setting to assist adults with developmental disabilities to accomplish and maintain their highest attainable living skills and to improve their quality of life by supporting independence.
To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.
To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.
Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.
Residential, nursing care and community supports to adults with intellectual disabilities. Our mission is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities by
To provide quality affordable housing
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
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.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Elder Circle Inc. 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 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 65 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 Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds Seventy-Five State Street ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND WIDOWS WOOD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Locker Project ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds The Iris Network ↗
- Who funds RIDING TO THE TOP ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds AVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRANNIE PEABODY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
- Who funds Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
- Who funds Spurwink Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ENGINE INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine ↗
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 · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · United Way Inc · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Libra 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 Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson 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.
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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