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The Foreside 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ISSUE ONE | $7,500 |
| BERMUDA RACE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| ASPIRE SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| LEGADO INC | $1,250 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $1,000 |
| BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES | $1,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $1,000 |
| MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| PALAVER STRINGS INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
| WEST RIVER SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000 |
| TIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER INCORPORATED | $500 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOREST | $500 |
| UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST | $500 |
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 (FY23–23, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 9 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- HIHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL6× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +10%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +5%- WRWest River Sports Association Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- PCParent Child Center Incone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +23%
- GCGRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -48%
- ALALNOBA LEWIS FAMILY FOUNDATION FKA PINNACLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -91%
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.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
Our Mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maines forest community
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and the most unlike its peers is Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation Fka Pinnacle Leadership Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 38 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 HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Parent Child Center Inc ↗
- Who funds West River Sports Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALNOBA LEWIS FAMILY FOUNDATION FKA PINNACLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds T2 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STREETS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds BERMUDA RACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGADO INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PALAVER STRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS ↗
- Who funds VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA ↗
- Who funds TIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION GROUP ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ADDISON COUNTY RELOCALIZATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND NORDIC SKI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
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 · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Murray Charitable Trust · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation · Davis Family 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 Foreside 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Parent Child Center Inc — 45% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% 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.
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