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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.

$725k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Civil Rights$310kCrime & Legal$275kFood & Nutrition$260kHealth$213kEducation$156kArts & Culture$150kHuman Services$145kYouth Development$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $350k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$150,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE$60,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT$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
MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS & GARDENERS ASSOCIATION$30,000
HOPE ACTS$30,000
NIWESKOK$30,000
MAINE FARMLAND TRUST$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
FRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION$20,000
NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE$20,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE ACTS: $30k → 7%HOPE ACTS: $20k → 7%HOPE ACTS: $15k → 7%HOPE ACTS: $15k → 7%MAINE RECOVERY FUND: $10k → 7%MAINE RECOVERY FUND: $10k → 7%PROSPERTY ME: $10k → 7%MAINE RECOVERY FUND: $10k → 7%HOPE ACTS: $10k → 7%MAINE RECOVERY FUND: $8k → 7%MAINE RECOVERY FUND: $8k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 20 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
6

Total granted

$1.6M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-2%

Still filing today

80%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • FP
    FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +34%
  • HA
    Hope Acts
    5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +254%
  • IA
    Indigo Arts Alliance
    4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • NM
    NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • TS
    TREE STREET YOUTH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • P
    PROSPERITYME
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -40%
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
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
2
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…

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3
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

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,…

Education
4
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
5
Maine Career Development Association
Education
6
Manufacturers Association of Maine

The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.

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7
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Maine Arts Academy

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…

Education
9
Maine Climate Action Now

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…

Environment
10
Maine Council on Aging

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…

Unclassified
11
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

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.

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Initiativesinc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 30 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
13/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $180,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE: $130,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINECAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE: $125,000 · OtherCAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICETHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $75,000 · OtherTHE SUMMER CAMP INCILAP: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIn Her Presence: $72,500 · OtherIn Her PresenceNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $60,000 · OtherNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc+4 more: $67,500 · Other+4 moreFRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION: $106,250 · EducationFRIENDS OF PO…Hand in Hand Mano en Mano: $80,000 · EducationHand in Hand …MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $10,000 · EducationSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $10,000 · EducationFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC: $135,000 · HealthFAMILY PLANN…WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC: $60,000 · HealthWABANAKI HEA…MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Food & NutritionMAINE ORGAN…Maine Farmland Trust: $75,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Farml…Niweskok: $30,000 · Food & NutritionNiweskokIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $100,000 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRANT…MAINE INITIATIVESINC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalMAINE INI…Hope Acts: $90,000 · Human ServicesHope ActsUnited Recovery Fund: $45,000 · Human ServicesUnited Re…PROSPERITYME: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROSPERIT…Indigo Arts Alliance: $90,000 · Arts & CulturePALAVER STRINGS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Alliance for Arts Education: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMAINE PRESERVATION: $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$770,000Education$206,250Health$195,000Food & Nutrition$180,000Crime & Legal$150,000Human Services$145,000Arts & Culture$140,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC: $135,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE: $130,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION: $106,250 over 5y, 10% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHope Acts: $90,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetIndigo Arts Alliance: $90,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $75,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $75,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetIn Her Presence: $72,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Recovery Fund: $45,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPALAVER STRINGS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROSPERITYME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Alliance for Arts Education: $7,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetMAINE PRESERVATION: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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 FoundationJohn T Gorman Foundat…Elmina B Sewall Found…Onion FoundationMaine InitiativesincMurray Charitable Tru…Albert B Glickman Fam…Maine Health Access F…Davis Family Foundati…United Way IncThe Apple Lane Founda…
Maine Community Foundation IncME41.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    7report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Evergreen Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Evergreen 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 30 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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