· Private foundation
The Marjorie C Bailey Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINEHEALTH | $50,000 |
| SCRIPTURE UNION USA | $50,000 |
| STEPPING STONE HOUSING | $35,000 |
| JOSEPH & ALICE MCKEEN STUDY CENTER | $25,000 |
| EVANGELICAL INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER CO | $20,000 |
| MIRUS ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| BETHLEHEM COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MAINE MARITIME MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| PIONEERS | $5,000 |
| MIDCOAST LITERACY | $2,000 |
| DAMARISCOTTA BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,151 |
| BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA | $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 (FY17–25, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- SSSTEPPING STONE HOUSING INC7× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +374%
- TLThe Lincoln Home5× · 2017–2023 · $103k · revenue +10%
- CRCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CLCENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY YMCAone grant, 2020 · $50k
- CBCOLLEGE BAPTIST CHURCH HILLSDALEone grant, 2024 · $50k
- CCCOASTAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCone grant, 2019 · $47k · revenue -1%
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.
Bringing a biblical perspective to public policy
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…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Penobscot Christian School exists to provide classical Christian education that cultivates life-long learners who love God, love others, and engage culture.
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
Christian education
Seacoast Christian School is a private not-for-profit non-boarding Christian school. In addition to striving for academic excellence, it seeks to teach students to be life-long servants of God and to live out their faith in all area of…
To maintain and operate the First Parish Church in Portland, ME.
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
Concord Christian Academy is a life preparatory educational institution that works in harmony with families to promote the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and creative growth of students, empowering them to live for the glory…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Maine Inc and the most unlike its peers is Damariscotta 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 86 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 STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds The Lincoln Home ↗
- Who funds Joseph and Alice McKeen Study Center ↗
- Who funds Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds Scripture Union ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNHEALTH ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY DENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Anselm House ↗
- Who funds MIRUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Freedom Center ↗
- Who funds MISSION QUEST ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds CHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Ruth J Jones Charitable Foundation · Reny Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable Foundation · Burns Family Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn · Edward L & Ruth J Jones Charitable Foundation · Robert & Jean Burrage Charitable Foundation · Norman N & Gale R Hochgraf Charitable Foundation · The Genada Foundation · The Audrey P Connor Charitable 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 Marjorie C Bailey Charitable 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.
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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