· Private foundation
The Redmond Family Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k13 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,064,853 |
| CAPE ELIZABETH LAND TRUST | $110,197 |
| FIRST CONGRESSIONAL CHURCH UCC | $106,140 |
| HOLDERNESS SCHOOL | $68,305 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK | $25,178 |
| PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY | $25,000 |
| WAYSIDE FOOD PROGRAMS | $25,000 |
| GREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS | $15,005 |
| MAINE FAMILY PLANNING | $15,000 |
| OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP | $15,000 |
| MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS & GARDENERS | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FORT WILLIAMS PARK | $15,000 |
| MAINE PUBLIC | $15,000 |
| MAINE FARMLAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2022, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- HSHOLDERNESS SCHOOL4× · 2017–2022 · $187k · revenue +38%
- CECape Elizabeth Land Trust4× · 2017–2022 · $144k · revenue +262%
- PSPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY6× · 2017–2022 · $61k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -51%
- TCTHE CIRCUS BARN INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +5%
- FOFRIENDS OF LITHGOW LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +97%
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.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to…
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
The Maine Philanthropy Center (MPC) is the state's leading resource that provides opportunity, leadership and support to advance the effectiveness of philanthropy in Maine and its ability to make a meaningful difference. It helps grant…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is New York Public Radio. 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 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 63 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 HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cape Elizabeth Land Trust ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FORT WILLIAMS PARK ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Hope Acts ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
- Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Maine Association for New Americans ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN 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 · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830 · John T Gorman Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Murray Charitable Trust · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Davis Family Foundation · Hoyt Charitable Foundation F Sherman Hoyt &
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 Redmond Family 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.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
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.