· Private foundation
The Next Generation Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wild Blueberry Heritage Center | $9,542 |
| Friendship House | $5,000 |
| Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry | $5,000 |
| Stewart Free Library | $5,000 |
| Sarah's House | $5,000 |
| Millinocket Memorial Library | $5,000 |
| Simpson Memorial Library | $5,000 |
| Dyer Library and Saco Museum | $5,000 |
| Bangor Area Recovery Network | $5,000 |
| Preble Street | $5,000 |
| Showhegan Free Library | $5,000 |
| Maine Dental Health Outreach | $5,000 |
| Tree Street Youth | $5,000 |
| Avian Haven | $5,000 |
| Long Lake Public Library | $5,000 |
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, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% 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.
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 +178% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- MMMILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY3× · 2017–2023 · $505k · revenue +14% · 48% of their budget
- SCSPECIAL CHILDRENS FRIENDS INC2× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +79%
- HIHOME INC2× · 2017–2023 · $89k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- DODAY ONEone grant, 2018 · $338k · revenue -24%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $325k
- MRMillinocket Regional Hospitalone grant, 2018 · $300k · 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.
To maintain a library proving lending services to all residents of Monhegan Island, ME.
Providing Dental services to low-income individuals who are uninsured,underinsured, or have other significant financial barriers to accessing care.
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:…
Porter Memorial Library provides books, periodicals and other media for use and circulation, as well as free internet access and computer use for Machias and surrounding communities. In addition, the library provides cultural and…
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.
Our mission is to provide services cultural activities technology education and to act as a social resource to improve the quality of life in our area
Mission is to connect the Biddeford community with materials, programs, services, and other informational and cultural resources enabling fuller, better, and richer lives.
The primary mission of the Machias Area Food Pantry is to provide good healthy food to individuals and families who are food insecure throughout Washington County, Maine.
It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.
To rescue injured, sick and abandoned marine mammals and to educate the public about what to do if they find one of these marine mammals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Childrens Friends Inc and the most unlike its peers is Broadreach Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 56 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 MILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds Millinocket Regional Hospital ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CHILDRENS FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds PIHCINTU ↗
- Who funds BROADREACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CORNISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OUT Maine ↗
- Who funds BETH C WRIGHT CANCER RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds AVIAN HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ELLSWORTH FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Buck Memorial Library ↗
- Who funds Families First Community Center ↗
- Who funds Wild Blueberry Heritage Center ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LONG LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ROCKLAND DISTRICT NURSING 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Maine Humanities Council · Narragansett Number One 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 Next Generation 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.