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The Regina M O'Hara Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Regina M O'Hara Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$65kHuman Services$43kHealth$24kEducation$20kPublic Benefit$16kPhilanthropy$6k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$384k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADOPTIVE AND FOSTER FAMILIES OF MAI$8,000
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$8,000
NORTHEAST CANINE$8,000
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%MAINE NEEDS: $7k → 7%ADOPTIVE AND FOSTER FAMILIES OF MAI: $8k → 15%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132k · 5 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +106% since the first grant, against +74% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$132k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+106%
+74%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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Food & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +106%
  • C
    COMMONSPACE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $21k · revenue +209%
  • MR
    MILESTONE RECOVERY
    3× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • MS
    Morning Star Recovery
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • Maine Needs Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +391%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +33%
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.

04Its 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.

1
Preble Street

To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.

Human Services
2
Rural Community Action Ministry

Our purpose is to work with people to meet their needs for safe and adequate shelter, clothing, food and basic well-being in a manner that maintains or improves their self worth and dignity.

Human Services
3
Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc

Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.

Housing & Shelter
4
Fair Tide

Fair Tide's mission is to reduce homelessness by providing Housing and support services to individuals and families in the seacoast. Through Fair Tide's permanent housing program, homeless households benefit from intensive case management…

Housing & Shelter
5
Moving Forward for Maine Reentry Sisters Corporation

This is a women-led nonprofit organization that supports formerly incarcerated and system-impacted women in Maine through education, reentry services, and economic mobility programming. Also, to provide direct assistance, peer support,…

Crime & Legal
6
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
7
Midcoast Maine Homeless Coalition

Midcoast Maine Homeless Coalition works to end the cycle of homelessness for individual families in Waldo County, Maine through innovation and collaboration around affordable housing and this program is designed to do just that. Family…

Housing & Shelter
8
Mainely Teeth Llc

Providing Dental services to low-income individuals who are uninsured,underinsured, or have other significant financial barriers to accessing care.

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9
Maine State Troopers Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Heart of Maine Resource Center

Heart of Maine Resource Center was founded in 2018 to bridge persistan gaps in access to food and supportive services for neighbors in the greater Dexter ME area. Transending the current community barrie

Food & Nutrition
11
Needlepoint Sanctuary of Maine

The mission of Needlepoint Sanctuary is to realize the meaning of the word sanctuary within our community and reduce the harms associated with drug use, poverty, and social inequality.

Health
12
Homeless Services of Aroostook Inc

Provide temporary housing and counseling services for the homeless of northern maine

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonspace; the most unlike its peers is Pink Feather 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $58,075 · Food & NutritionRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATI…Good Shepherd Food Bank: $7,200 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food BankCOMMONSPACE: $21,425 · HealthCOMMONSPACEMILESTONE RECOVERY: $16,350 · HealthMILESTONE RECOVERYPINK FEATHER FOUNDATION: $20,225 · Youth DevelopmentPINK FEATHER …Morning Star Recovery: $8,000 · OtherMorning Star…SOPHIA'S HOUSE: $6,250 · OtherSOPHIA'S HOU…Individual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherIndividual g…Northeast Canine: $16,000 · Public BenefitNortheast …ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILIES OF MAINE: $8,000 · Human ServicesADOPTIVE …Maine Needs Inc: $7,200 · Human ServicesMaine Nee…
Food & Nutrition$65,275Health$37,775Youth Development$20,225Other$19,750Public Benefit$16,000Human Services$15,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $58,075 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONSPACE: $21,425 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPINK FEATHER FOUNDATION: $20,225 over 3y, 12% of budgetMILESTONE RECOVERY: $16,350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNortheast Canine: $16,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetMorning Star Recovery: $8,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $7,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $7,200 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.

John T Gorman Foundat…Agnes M Lindsay TrustAmazonsmile Foundation
John T Gorman FoundationME13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John T Gorman Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · 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 Regina M O'Hara Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Regina M O'Hara Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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