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The Heather Foundation 009246-000
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP | $5,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $4,000 |
| TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| BAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CLUB | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF CHIKUMBUSO INC | $1,000 |
| BOOTS2ROOTS | $1,000 |
| VALO | $1,000 |
| BRUNSWICK WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| BROC-COMMUNITY ACTION IN | $500 |
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC | $500 |
| BRIDGE TO RUTLAND | $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 (FY18–24, $25k) 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank7× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +83%
- BHBAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +199%
- BBOOTS2ROOTS7× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +614%
Funded once
- BLBOMAZEEN LAND TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +31%
- TCTHE COALITION TO RESTOREone grant, 2023 · $1k
- MRMAINE-WABANAKI REACHone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -8%
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.
Our mission is to get rural people out of poverty. We do this by investing in agricultural interventions that substantially raise farmers' incomes.
The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.
Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
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,…
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…
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
The mission of The Genesis Fund is to bring together resources to create housing and other economic and social opportunities for underserved people and communities throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
New hampshire women's foundation invests in opportunity and equality for women and girls in new hampshire through research, advocacy, education and grant making.
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maquam Bay of Missisquoi Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 35 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 Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MAINE WOMENS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds BAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BOOTS2ROOTS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CLUB ↗
- Who funds Friends of Chikumbuso Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWSTORY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Faith House Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VALO ↗
- Who funds Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc ↗
- Who funds Dismas of Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds MAQUAM BAY OF MISSISQUOI INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Bayou Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAINE-WABANAKI REACH ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN 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 · The Vermont Community Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Td Charitable Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Heather Foundation 009246-000 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.
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Newstory Center Inc — 48% of income from government
- Maquam Bay of Missisquoi Inc — 43% of income from government
- Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc — 0% 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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