· Private foundation
The Halcyon Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST STOCKBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $353 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
To build affordable homes for working men and women.
To create a comprehensive primary health care system under community governance, driven by the needs of the people we serve, which is accessible, affordable, and sustainable, and unites patients and providers alike in the effort to provide…
To conserve for the public benefit natural habitat, scenic beauty, and working land of the Boothbay region of Maine by providing stewardship, public access, and environmental programs.
Preserving our Maritime Heritage by supporting working waterfront, promoting sustainable practices, and embracing the educational opportunities this stewardship provides.
Bangor Historical Society's Mission is to share the region's rich history with the community and its visitors through research, education and programs.
The purposes of this corporation are to collect, preserve and share the history of North Yarmouth (the area encompassed by the original settlement) as well as to promote interest and appreciation of the character of the present town of…
The mission of the boothbay railway village is to conserve, display and interpret artifacts, authentic period structures and technologies utilized in maine during the historical period of the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries.
To enhance the quality of life in Brunswick and Harpswell by providing free and equitable access to information and ideas that enlighten, inspire, enrich and entertain.
Promote and preserve the history of the boothbay region of maine and maintain a historical museum open free of charge to the general public.
The organization aims to enhance the traditional character of Boothbay Harbor, with a particular focus on protecting the working waterfront and expanding public access to the water for the benefit of both residents and visitors.
To preserve collect and digitize the archive of the town of Lincolnville Maine's history ecology flora and fauna
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boothbay Region Ambulance Service and the most unlike its peers is West Stockbridge Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 WEST STOCKBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA HOUSE AT BOOTHBAY HARBOR ↗
- Who funds ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION DISTRICT NURSING ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION AMBULANCE SERVICE ↗
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 · Palmer Walbridge Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Halcyon 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.
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.