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The Evergreen 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $350k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE | $60,000 |
| MANO EN MANO | $55,000 |
| MAINE FAMILY PLANNING | $50,000 |
| INDIGO ARTS ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| IN HER PRESENCE | $30,000 |
| HOPE ACTS | $30,000 |
| MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS & GARDENERS ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| MAINE FARMLAND TRUST | $30,000 |
| NIWESKOK | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- FPFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +34%
- HAHope Acts5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +254%
- IAIndigo Arts Alliance4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- NMNEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $18k
- SGSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Instituteone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -7%
- TSTREE STREET YOUTH INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +17%
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.
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 build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Initiativesinc and the most unlike its peers is Portland Esl Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Hope Acts ↗
- Who funds Indigo Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds In Her Presence ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds United Recovery Fund ↗
- Who funds PALAVER STRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Niweskok ↗
- Who funds Portland ESL Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
- Who funds TREE STREET YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
- Who funds Maine Alliance for Arts Education ↗
- Who funds MAINE PRESERVATION ↗
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 · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Onion Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Murray Charitable Trust · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · United Way Inc · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830
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 Evergreen 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.
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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