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The Greg Altman Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Greg Altman Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$77kEducation$51kYouth Development$21kHealth$5kEnvironment$5kPublic Benefit$2kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$434k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUSAN L CURTIS FOUNDATION$20,000
YARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
TOWN OF YARMOUTH$2,000
SEA MEADOW MARINE FOUNDATION$1,000
CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN$1,000
MAINE COAST FISHERMAN'S ASSOCIATION$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%BARBARA BUSH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $1k → 7%YARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%YARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%YARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11k → 7%YARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $3k → 7%MAINE COAST FISHERMAN'S ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%SEA MEADOW MARINE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%SUSAN L CURTIS FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%SUSAN L CURTIS FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%SUSAN L CURTIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SUSAN L CURTIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%CAMP SUSAN CURTIS: $10k → 7%CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $8k → 7%CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $3k → 7%CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $2k → 7%TOWN OF YARMOUTH: $2k → 7%CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $1k → 7%MY PLACE TEEN CENTER: $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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 3 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$142k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+69%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’22’23’24
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TS
    The Susan L Curtis Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +161%
  • YE
    YARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue 0%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN
    4× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MP
    My Place Teen Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +226%
  • BB
    BARBARA BUSH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
2
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
3
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.

Science & Tech
4
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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5
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
6
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
7
The River Fund Maine

To create a bright economic future for our community by investing in the education of our youth and by harnessing the recreational assets of our region

Human Services
8
Sail Maine

To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.

Arts & Culture
9
Maine Rivers

Maine Rivers is a statewide advocacy organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine's river systems. We support and direct efforts to conserve and improve the health of Maine's rivers and…

Environment
10
Maine Youth Camping Foundation D/B/a Maine Summer Camps

To support and promote meaningful developmental, educational, environmental, and recreational experiences for children by engaging in activities that enhance the quality and effectiveness of Maine's youth camps.

Recreation & Sports
11
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
12
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
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 Sea Meadow Marine Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Susan L Curtis Foundation: $77,200 · Recreation & SportsThe Susan L Curtis FoundationYARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $51,000 · EducationYARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATIONTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $13,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FO…My Place Teen Center Inc: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual …BARBARA BUSH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherBARBARA BUS…TOWN OF YARMOUTH: $2,000 · OtherTOWN OF YAR…ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $3,000 · EnvironmentMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN: $1,000 · EnvironmentSea Meadow Marine Foundation: $1,000 · EnvironmentJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Recreation & Sports$77,200Education$51,000Youth Development$21,000Other$17,000Environment$5,000Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $77,200 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetYARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $13,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSea Meadow Marine Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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…Elmina B Sewall Found…Simmons Foundation - …Sam L Cohen FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Greg Altman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Greg Altman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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