· Private foundation
The Pericles Foundation co H M Payson & Co - Michael Currie
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Vet2Vet Maine | $1,000 |
| Maine Association for New Americans | $1,000 |
| SOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD | $500 |
| SAFE PASSAGE | $500 |
| KONBIT SANTE | $500 |
| Falmouth Food Pantry | $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 (FY18–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank3× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +50%
- PFPartners for World Health5× · 2018–2022 · $14k · revenue +171%
- LPLocker Project5× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +320%
Funded once
- TSThe Salvation Armyone grant, 2020 · $2k
- FOFriends of Kenya Rising CO J McFaddone grant, 2021 · $1k
- WCWAR CHILD USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +675%
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 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.
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:…
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,…
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.
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.
MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
Provide food and basic necessities to individuals and families in need in the Camden, Maine area
The mission of Wayside is to increase access to food for those in need in Southern Maine by providing a system for community based volunteers who serve prepared meals where such meals are needed, and by collaborating with other hunger…
Maine Equal Justice is a nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity and equity for people in Maine.
Provide free food and personal care items to families in need in Winthrop and Wayne, ME.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Shepherd Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Kakamega. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Partners for World Health ↗
- Who funds Locker Project ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Konbit Sante Cap Haitien Health ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
- Who funds VET TO VET MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Association for New Americans ↗
- Who funds WAR CHILD USA 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 · Sam L Cohen Foundation · United Way Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation · Morse Hill Trust · Murray Charitable Trust · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank
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 Pericles Foundation co H M Payson & Co - Michael Currie 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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