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· Private foundation
The Pericles Foundation
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$18k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants
1
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Food & Nutrition$38kInternational$30kHuman Services$11kCrime & Legal$9kPublic Benefit$6kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$28k
02FY2023 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$84
Total assets
Largest grants
- Locker Project$6,200
- GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK$3,000
- IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT$2,000
- Travis Mills Foundation$1,500
- Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome$1,500
- Maine Association for New Americans$1,000
- Vet2Vet Maine$1,000
- KONBIT SANTE$500
- SAFE PASSAGE$500
- Falmouth Food Pantry$500
- SOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD$500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$115k · 18 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
18
4
Total granted
$115k
$4k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+99%
+528%
Still filing today
61%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +71%
- PFPartners for World Health5× · 2018–2022 · $14k · revenue +197%
- LPLocker Project5× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- TSThe Salvation Armyone grant, 2020 · $2k
- FOFriends of Kenya Rising CO J McFaddone grant, 2021 · $1k
- CCCumberland Congregation Churchone grant, 2018 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Fork Food Lab
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
Environment
2
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program
The mission of Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program is to provide hungry people with access to healthy food, work to improve the quality of their lives by partnering with others, and serve them in a manner that recognizes their dignity.
Unclassified
3
Maine Needs Inc
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:…
Human Services
4
Machias Area Food Pantry
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.
Food & Nutrition
5
Khmer Maine
Khmer Maine is a nonpartisan, community organization working to improve the quality of life, social and economic well-being of Cambodians in Maine through cultural exchange, community building and civic engagement. Khmer Maine also…
Human Services
6
Camden Area Christian Food Pantry
Provide food and basic necessities to individuals and families in need in the Camden, Maine area
Food & Nutrition
7
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
Human Services
8
Maine Equal Justice Partners
Maine Equal Justice is a Nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity, and equity for people in Maine.
Crime & Legal
9
Winthrop Food Pantry
Provide free food and personal care items to families in need in Winthrop and Wayne, Maine.
Food & Nutrition
10
Maine Access Points
To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.
Health
11
Maine Donor Alliance Fund
Maine Donor Alliance Fund and Maine Donor Alliance both work to build lasting progressive power through year-round investment in strategic infrastructure organizations in Maine. We use strategic philanthropy to advance the goals of our…
Education
12
Wayside Food Programs
To provide food to the poor and hungry of the Greater Portland area.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Locker Project and the most unlike its peers is Travis Mills Foundation. 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
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Food & Nutrition$38,200International$29,500Other$27,500Human Services$10,500Crime & Legal$8,500Public Benefit$5,500Community Improvement$1,000
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 GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Partners for World Health ↗
- Who funds Locker Project ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE ↗
- Who funds Travis Mills Foundation ↗
- Who funds Furniture Friends ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds Falmouth Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds KONBIT SANTE CAP-HAITIEN HEALTH PAR ↗
- Who funds Maine Association for New Americans ↗
- Who funds War Child USA ↗
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.
Maine Community Foundation IncME21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Verrill Foundation · Murray Charitable Trust · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · United Way Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 organisation The Pericles 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 562375938 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Pericles Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Pericles Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines