· Private foundation
The Joel Frantzman Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM OF ART | $1,500 |
| DOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVENCY | $1,000 |
| CRABTREE NECT LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $1,000 |
| MCHT (MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST) | $1,000 |
| PIERCE POND WATERSHED TRUST | $1,000 |
| RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FRENCHMAN'S BAY CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK | $1,000 |
| THE GOOD SHEPARD | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| EMMAUS HOMELESS SHELTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 15 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- FBFrenchman Bay Conservancy8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +249%
- FIFRIENDS IN ACTION7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +39%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust7× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- EHEMMAUS HOMELSS SHELTERone grant, 2019 · $3k
- HOHOSPICE OF HANCOCK COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 43 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 — 2% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 96 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 MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS ↗
- Who funds Frenchman Bay Conservancy ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CRABTREE NECK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE WILDERNESS WATERSHED TRUST INC DBA PIERCE POND WATERSHED TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM ↗
- Who funds Health Equity Alliance ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE ORION SOCIETY 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 · Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Murray Charitable Trust · Quimby Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Joel Frantzman Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% 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.