· Private foundation
The Mitchell P Rales 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $181k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT DESERT 365 | $1,209,656 |
| NORWOOD SCHOOL | $329,232 |
| THE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL MONTGOMERY COUNTY MD | $56,000 |
| MT DESERT NURSING ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| GREAT AND SMALL | $10,000 |
| MT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| MARET SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| WILLOWIND THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $5,000 |
| MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| MAGEN DAVID SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
| MT DESERT LAND & GARDEN PRESERVE | $5,000 |
| SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- NSNORWOOD SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +34%
- MUMiami University Foundation2× · 2020–2021 · $596k · revenue +14%
- MDMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL3× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- MDMT DESERT 365one grant, 2021 · $206k
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -9%
- FOFriends of Acadiagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +215%
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 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…
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Island housing trust promotes viable, year-round island communities by advancing permanent workforce housing on mount desert island, maine.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
We boldly navigate climate and economic change with island and coastal communities to expand opportunities and deliver solutions.
To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Washington Commanders Charitable Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 46 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 NORWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT 365 ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds GREAT AND SMALL ↗
- Who funds THE ASHLEY BRYAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY WAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ISLESFORD BOATWORKS ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds SEAL HARBOR LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAR HARBOR HISTORICAL 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 · Florence V Burden Foundation · The Eacho Family Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) · Ethel D Colket Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Nautilus Foundation Inc · Newtmont 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 Mitchell P Rales 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.
- Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc — 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.
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