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The Halcyon Foundation at a glance

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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.

$353
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$353
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$19kArts & Culture$6kHuman Services$3kHealth$3kEnvironment$2kEducation$1kCommunity Improvement$1kFood & Nutrition$800Other$0
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$353
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST STOCKBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$353
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $1k → 8%WEST STOCKBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $881 → 12%WEST STOCKBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $353 → 12%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 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
Boothbay Region Housing Trust

To build affordable homes for working men and women.

Housing & Shelter
2
Boothbay Region Health Care Inc

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…

Health
3
Boothbay Region Land Trust

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.

Environment
4
Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation

Preserving our Maritime Heritage by supporting working waterfront, promoting sustainable practices, and embracing the educational opportunities this stewardship provides.

Environment
5
Bangor Historical Society

Bangor Historical Society's Mission is to share the region's rich history with the community and its visitors through research, education and programs.

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6
North Yarmouth Historical Society

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…

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7
Boothbay Railway Village

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Brunswick Public Library Association d/b/a Curtis Memorial Library

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.

Education
10
Boothbay Region Historical Society

Promote and preserve the history of the boothbay region of maine and maintain a historical museum open free of charge to the general public.

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11
Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation

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.

Environment
12
Lincolnville Historical Society

To preserve collect and digitize the archive of the town of Lincolnville Maine's history ecology flora and fauna

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boothbay Region Ambulance Service; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INCBOOTHBAY REGION COMMUNITY RESOURCES COUNCIL (BRCRC): $2,000 · OtherBOOTHBAY REGION COMMUNITY RESOURCES COUNCIL (BRCRC)BOOTHBAY REGION HISTORICAL SOCIETY (BRHC): $1,700 · OtherBOOTHBAY REGION HISTORICAL SOCIETY (BRHC)BOOTHBAY REGION YMCA FUND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE: $1,000 · OtherBOOTHBAY REGION YMCA FUND DEVELOPMENT OFFICEBERKSHIRE NATIONAL RESOURCES COUNCIL: $1,000 · OtherBERKSHIRE NATIONAL RESOURCES COUNCILCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS THE HAROLD PRATT HOUSE: $600 · OtherCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS THE HAROLD PRATT HOUSECOSTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS: $500 · OtherCOSTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS+2 more: $450 · OtherWEST STOCKBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,734 · Arts & CultureWEST STOCKBRIDGE HISTORI…THE OPERA HOUSE AT BOOTHBAY HARBOR: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE OPERA HOUSE AT BOOTH…ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $1,500 · Human ServicesELDERCARE NETWORK…BOOTHBAY REGION FOOD PANTRY: $800 · Human ServicesBOOTHBAY REGION F…NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC: $800 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE FOR WOME…BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN: $1,000 · EducationBOOTHBAY REGION DISTRICT NURSING ASSOC INC: $500 · HealthBOOTHBAY REGION AMBULANCE SERVICE: $400 · HealthBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $750 · AnimalsBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $500 · Science & Tech
Other$9,250Arts & Culture$4,234Human Services$3,100Education$1,000Health$900Animals$750Science & Tech$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST STOCKBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,734 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOOTHBAY REGION FOOD PANTRY: $800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOTHBAY REGION AMBULANCE SERVICE: $400 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Palmer Walbridge Foun…Mildred H McEvoy Foun…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 19 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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