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The Presumpscot Foundation at a glance

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The Presumpscot 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.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$38kPhilanthropy$3kEnvironment$1k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maine Historical Society$25,800
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 9% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Maine Preservation: $2k → 7%Maine Lighthouse Trust: $3k → 9%Maine Maritime Museum: $75 → 9%American Lighthouse Foundation: $1k → 11%Maine Preservation: $1k → 7%Maine Preservation: $1k → 7%Freeport Historical Society: $2k → 7%Maine Historical Society: $26k → 7%Greater Portland Landmarks: $3k → 7%Children's Museum of Maine: $1k → 7%Maine Historical Society: $50 → 7%The Falmouth Historical Society: $1k → 7%Falmouth Land Trust: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…

Arts & Culture
2
Lincolnville Historical Society

To preserve collect and digitize the archive of the town of Lincolnville Maine's history ecology flora and fauna

Unclassified
3
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
4
Montauk Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Bangor Historical Society

Bangor Historical Society's Mission is to share the region's rich history with the community and its visitors through research, education and programs.

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6
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
7
Salem Historical Society
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8
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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9
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Maine Forestry Museum

Preserve the cultural heritage of forestry and conservation in the state of Maine and to educate visitors on the contributions of logging and the logging industry to the growth of Maine.

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11
Yarmouth Historical Society

To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.

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12
Penobscot Marine Museum

Penobscot marine museum inspires curiosity and fosters understanding about life and work on the maine coast to encourage stewardship of our communities and the sea.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Maritime Museum; the most unlike its peers is American Lighthouse 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

10 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,850 · Arts & CultureMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETYMAINE PRESERVATION: $4,414 · Arts & CultureMAINE PRESERVATIONGREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC+4 more: $3,075 · Arts & Culture+4 moreMAINE LIGHTHOUSE TRUST: $2,500 · PhilanthropyFREEPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,500 · OtherFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST: $1,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$36,339Philanthropy$2,500Other$1,500Environment$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,850 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMAINE PRESERVATION: $4,414 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFREEPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Maritime Museum: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Morton-Kelly Charitab…Maine Community Found…Phineas W Sprague Mem…Fisher Charitable Fou…Davis Family Foundati…Roxanne Quimby Founda…The Widgeon Point Cha…Ibm International Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morton-Kelly Charitable TrustME22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Roxanne Quimby Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Presumpscot Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Presumpscot Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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