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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.

$184k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$394kHealth$230kFood & Nutrition$165kCommunity Improvement$143kHousing & Shelter$100kCrime & Legal$52kYouth Development$40kPublic Benefit$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $86k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Preble Street Recource Center$20,000
Avesta Housing$16,000
Inn at Village Square$10,000
Portland Widows Wood Society$10,000
Legal Services for the Elderly$10,000
Opportunity Alliance$10,000
Southern Maine Agency on Aging$10,000
American Red Cross - Maine Region$7,500
Locker Project$7,500
Wayside Food Program$7,500
Center for Grieving Children$5,000
Shalom House$5,000
Riding to the Top$5,000
Elder Abuse Institute of Maine$5,000
Portland Wheelers$5,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $10k → 9%Bath Area Family YMCA: $3k → 9%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $10k → 9%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $10k → 9%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $10k → 9%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $10k → 9%Sweetser: $5k → 9%Portland Widows Wood Society: $10k → 7%Portland Widows Wood Society: $10k → 7%Portland Widows Wood Society: $10k → 7%Portland Widows Wood Society: $10k → 7%Portland Widows Wood Society: $10k → 7%Portland Widows Wood Society: $5k → 7%Portland Widows Wood Society: $5k → 7%Southen Maine Agency on Aging: $10k → 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $10k → 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $10k → 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $10k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $4k → 7%Maine Access Immigrant Network: $5k → 7%Prosperity ME: $5k → 7%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome: $5k → 7%Prosperity ME: $5k → 7%Prosperity ME: $5k → 7%Prosperity ME: $3k → 7%Prosperity ME: $3k → 7%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome: $3k → 7%Opportunity Alliance: $10k → 7%Opportunity Alliance: $8k → 7%Opportunity Alliance: $8k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $7k → 7%Opportunity Alliance: $5k → 7%Opportunity Alliance: $5k → 7%Riding to the Top: $5k → 7%Riding to the Top: $5k → 7%Riding to the Top: $5k → 7%Riding to the Top: $5k → 7%Riding to the Top: $5k → 7%Riding to the Top: $5k → 7%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Paysonlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 29 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
30

Total granted

$1.0M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+43%

Still filing today

66%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHealthEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • SM
    Southern Maine Agency on Aging
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +43%
  • WF
    Wayside Food Programs
    8× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +56%
  • SS
    Seventy-Five State Street
    8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • MR
    MILESTONE RECOVERYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +156%
  • MH
    Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • FO
    Friends of the PCFC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Eastern Area Agency on Aging

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.

Human Services
2
Group Main Stream Incorporated

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.

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3
Maine Access Points

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.

Health
4
Harbor House Community Service Center

To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.

Community Improvement
5
Community Health and Counseling Services

Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.

Health
6
Independence Advocates of Maine Inc

Residential, nursing care and community supports to adults with intellectual disabilities. Our mission is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities by

Human Services
7
Southern Maine Affordable Housing

To provide quality affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
8
MaineHealth

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…

Health
9
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

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.

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10
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
11
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

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…

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12
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; 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.
05the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ITN Portland: $65,000 · OtherITN PortlandPreble Street Recource Center: $56,000 · OtherPreble Street Recource CenterPreble Street Rescource Center: $40,000 · OtherPreble Street Rescource CenterInn at Village Square: $39,150 · OtherInn at Village SquareThe Iris Network: $37,500 · OtherThe Iris NetworkHabitat for Humanity 7 Rivers: $30,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity 7 RiversAlzheimer's Association of Maine: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,500 · OtherELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $25,000 · OtherHonor Flight Maine Inc: $19,000 · Other+28 more: $179,000 · Other+28 moreSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $90,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Maine Agency on Agin…PORTLAND WIDOWS WOOD SOCIETY: $60,000 · Human ServicesPORTLAND WIDOWS WOOD SOCIETYHospice of Southern Maine: $45,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Southern MaineThe Opportunity Alliance: $41,500 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity AllianceRIDING TO THE TOP: $30,000 · Human ServicesRIDING TO THE TOPPROSPERITYME: $20,000 · Human ServicesPROSPERITYME+6 more: $28,500 · Human Services+6 moreWayside Food Programs: $70,000 · Food & NutritionWayside Food Pr…Locker Project: $50,000 · Food & NutritionLocker ProjectGood Shepherd Food Bank: $37,500 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd F…CULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $7,500 · Food & NutritionSeventy-Five State Street: $61,250 · Housing & ShelterAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterTEDFORD HOUSING: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterLEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC: $52,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY DENTAL: $12,000 · HealthMILESTONE RECOVERY: $10,000 · HealthMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $10,000 · HealthShalom House Inc: $5,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen Center Inc: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$537,150Human Services$315,000Food & Nutrition$165,000Housing & Shelter$84,250Crime & Legal$52,000Health$37,000Youth Development$35,000

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 budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $90,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $70,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSeventy-Five State Street: $61,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND WIDOWS WOOD SOCIETY: $60,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC: $52,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLocker Project: $50,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $41,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Iris Network: $37,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetRIDING TO THE TOP: $30,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPROSPERITYME: $20,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHonor Flight Maine Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFRANNIE PEABODY CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSpurwink Services Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetENGINE INC: $6,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPORTLAND WHEELERS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFURNITURE FRIENDS: $5,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetShalom House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSweetser: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Access Immigrant Network: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTEDFORD HOUSING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Council on Aging: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPEAK ABOUT IT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 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 MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds Spurwink Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ENGINE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND WHEELERS ↗

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…Sam L Cohen FoundationSaco & Biddeford Savi…Simmons Foundation - …Fisher Charitable Fou…John T Gorman Foundat…United Way IncVincent B and Barbara…Atlantic Federal Cred…Elmina B Sewall Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…Libra Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME71.3× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson 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 65 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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