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The Jebediah Foundation 7563-Xxxxxx00129

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.

$642k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$298k
Largest
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$397kArts & Culture$300kHealth$245kCommunity Improvement$194kHuman Services$181kEnvironment$155kPhilanthropy$143kFood & Nutrition$126kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $233k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
  • $250k+1 grant · $298k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$298,000
MAINE DONOR ALLIANCE$55,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF$45,000
MAINE PUBLIC$32,500
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK OF MAINE$20,000
LCV EDUCATION FUND$20,000
PREBLE STREET$15,500
MAINE COLLEGE OF ART$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,250
CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE$10,000
YOUTH & FAMILY OUTREACH$10,000
WAYSIDE FOOD PROGRAMS$10,000
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$10,000
OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 11%TOGETHER WISCONSIN INC: $10k → 17%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICE: $100 → 11%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $10k → 10%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICE: $100 → 11%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICE: $100 → 11%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICE: $100 → 11%ACTION INC: $5k → 10%PREBLE STREET: $16k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $13k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $13k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $13k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $13k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $12k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $11k → 7%ACTION INC: $5k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $10k → 7%ACTION INC: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $10k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $9k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $8k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $8k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $8k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $6k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $5k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $5k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $5k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $5k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $5k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $5k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $3k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $2k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $750 → 7%MAYO STREET ARTS: $750 → 7%MAYO STREET ARTS: $250 → 7%MAYO STREET ARTS: $200 → 7%MAYO STREET ARTS: $200 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
AL
TX
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 86 repeat orgs$445k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

86 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
30

Total granted

$3.0M
$439k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+26%

Still filing today

52%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • BA
    BAXTER ACADEMIES OF MAINE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $158k · revenue +23%
  • MC
    MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    8× · 2018–2025 · $113k · revenue +74%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    6× · 2020–2025 · $82k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CN
    CITIBANK N A DAF
    one grant, 2023 · $168k
  • LC
    LURIE CENTER FOR AUTISM
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $51k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

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

Science & Tech
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
8
Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy

Focusmaine propels the growth of maine's most promising industries and transforms maine into a hub for top talent.

Community Improvement
9
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
10
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
11
Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine

At the children's museum & theatre of maine, we set the stage for every child to imagine and learn through play.

Arts & Culture
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockport Music Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lanesville Community Center Inc. 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

69 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. 69 of the 119 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
51/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $512,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITIBANK N A DAF: $167,500 · OtherCITIBANK N A DAFIndividual grant recipient: $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF: $115,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $115,250 · OtherLCV EDUCATION FUND: $115,000 · OtherMAINE DONOR ALLIANCE: $115,000 · OtherLURIE CENTER FOR AUTISM: $100,000 · Other+63 more: $729,834 · Other+63 moreBAXTER ACADEMIES OF MAINE: $158,000 · EducationBAXTER ACADE…MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $112,500 · EducationMAINE COLLEG…THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…SPRUCE STREET NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · EducationSPRUCE STREE…SHADY HILL SCHOOL: $15,000 · Education+7 more: $23,900 · Education+7 morePREBLE STREET: $77,500 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity Alliance: $68,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Maine: $35,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesACTION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $10,750 · Human ServicesTOGETHER WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,800 · Human ServicesMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $58,750 · Arts & CultureCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY NECK ART COLONY INC: $32,000 · Arts & CultureROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $29,000 · Arts & CulturePEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureEXPRESS YOURSELF INC: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $10,500 · Arts & CultureGood Shepherd Food Bank: $81,500 · Food & NutritionWayside Food Programs: $66,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $8,500 · Food & NutritionOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $30,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $22,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 · InternationalPartners for World Health: $2,000 · InternationalJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $35,000 · PhilanthropyFOLK ARTS RAJASTHAN INC: $12,750 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,330,084Education$379,400Human Services$267,050Arts & Culture$221,250Food & Nutrition$156,000International$59,000Philanthropy$58,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAXTER ACADEMIES OF MAINE: $158,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $112,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $81,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $77,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $68,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $66,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $58,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $34,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROCKY NECK ART COLONY INC: $32,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPRUCE STREET NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $29,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $22,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOLK ARTS RAJASTHAN INC: $12,750 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetLANESVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetOcean Alliance Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $10,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPA Alliance Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTOGETHER WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE VINCENT CLUB INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXPRESS YOURSELF INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FIRST R FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FENN SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBACKYARD GROWERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION: $4,300 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $3,550 over 8y, 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.

  • Who funds BAXTER ACADEMIES OF MAINE ↗
  • Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
  • Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
  • Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
  • Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY NECK ART COLONY INC ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRUCE STREET NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH ↗

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 Foundation IncME44.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Bruce J Anderson Foundation · Max Kagan Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Moser Family Foundation Inc

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 Jebediah Foundation 7563-Xxxxxx00129 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jebediah Foundation 7563-Xxxxxx00129. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Pathways for Childreninc: 86% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
  • Rockport Music Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Action Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Gloucester Writers Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rocky Neck Art Colony Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Jebediah Foundation 7563-Xxxxxx00129 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 119 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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