· Private foundation
The Pericles Foundation co H M Payson & Co - Michael Currie
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| Maine Association for New Americans | $1,000 |
| Vet2Vet Maine | $1,000 |
| KONBIT SANTE | $500 |
| Falmouth Food Pantry | $500 |
| SOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD | $500 |
| SAFE PASSAGE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pericles Foundation co H M Payson & Co - Michael Currie funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pericles Foundation co H M Payson & Co - Michael Currie. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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