· Private foundation
The Skerryvore 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE ACADEMY OF MODERN MUSIC | $14,500 |
| SAIL MAINE | $12,500 |
| VICTOR WOOTEN CENTER FOR MUSIC AND NATURE | $10,000 |
| KINONIK | $5,000 |
| EASTER SEALS OF MAINE | $3,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +27% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
Portland Museum of Art6× · 2019–2024 · $94k · revenue +17%- RIRIPPLEFFECT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +10%
- 3M317 Main St Community Center Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $50k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TRTHE RIPPLE EFFECTone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -65%
- FCFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -23%
- MHMaine Huts & Trailsgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +86%
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 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…
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…
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
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.
To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.
To celebrate, honor, experience, and share the story of Maine's maritime heritage.
PassivhausMAINE is a non-profit organization committed to decreasing carbon emissions, dependency on fossil fuels and the costs for winter heating in Maine.
The Saco River Theatres mission is art, culture and the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Hewnoaks Artist Colony. 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 30 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds RIPPLEFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds 317 Main St Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
- Who funds RIDING TO THE TOP ↗
- Who funds Maine Academy of Modern Music ↗
- Who funds THE RIPPLE EFFECT ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Maine Huts & Trails ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CONGRESS SQUARE PARK ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FORT GORGES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Side x Side Inc ↗
- Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds HEWNOAKS ARTIST COLONY ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Community Squash ↗
- Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
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 · Onion Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · The Old Bug Light Charitable Foundation C/O Spinnaker Trust · Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fund · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
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 Skerryvore Foundation Inc 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.
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.
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