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The Slade Hill Foundation 009256-000

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.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Arts & Culture$88kPhilanthropy$50kFood & Nutrition$43kEnvironment$15kHealth$3kPublic Benefit$1k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$790k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE ACADEMY OF MODERN MUSIC$10,000
INDIGO ARTS ALLIANCE$7,500
MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS & GARDENERS$5,000
SAFE ABORTIONS FOR EVERYONE$2,500
FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL$2,500
MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORP$1,500
PRO PUBLICA INC$1,500
MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST$1,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%PRO PUBLICA INC: $2k → 17%JUSTICEAID: $17k → 14%BIO-DYNAMIC FARMING AND GARDENING: $15k → 10%COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER INC: $15k → 7%NORTH ATLANTIC ARTS ALLIANCE: $15k → 9%MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST: $1k → 12%MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS & GARDENERS: $5k → 13%MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORP: $2k → 15%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $50k → 17%MAINE ACADEMY OF MODERN MUSIC: $10k → 7%COUNTRY DANCE & SONG SOCIETY INC: $15k → 9%FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $3k → 7%FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $10k → 7%INDIGO ARTS ALLIANCE: $8k → 7%SPACE GALLERY: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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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
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
3
Fork Food Lab

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,…

Environment
4
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

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,…

Education
5
Maine Arts Academy

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…

Education
6
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Apples & Oranges Fund
Philanthropy
8
Maine Media College

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…

9
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc

NOFA-NJ is an Association of consumers, farmers and gardeners, creating a regionally based organic agricultural system which is economically viable. The corporation's goals are the following:- Increase the number of certified organic farms…

10
Maine Conservation Alliance

Maine Conservation Alliance envisions a Maine where nature and people thrive through an inclusive, just democracy, a sustainable economy, and equitable access to nature's benefits - healthy climate, lands, air, and waters. We bring people…

Environment
11
Biotechnology Association of Maine Bioscience Association of Maine

The Bioscience Association of Maine (BAM) is a trade organization which promotes the industry's steady growth and interprets its benefits to the public.

Community Improvement
12
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and the most unlike its peers is Safe Abortions for Everyone. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JusticeAid — $17,008 · Arts & CultureJusticeAidNorth Atlantic Arts Alliance — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNorth Atlantic Arts AllianceMaine Academy of Modern Music — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Academy of Modern MusicIndigo Arts Alliance — $7,500 · Arts & CultureIndigo Arts AllianceSPACE Gallery — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSPACE Gallery+2 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureBIODYNAMIC ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionBIODYNAMIC ASSOCIATION INCPERMACULTURE ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHEAST US INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionPERMACULTURE ASSOCIATION OF THE …FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL — $12,500 · Food & NutritionFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIALGood Shepherd Food Bank — $10,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food BankMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Food & NutritionMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDEN…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADV…COUNTRY DANCE & SONG SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · OtherCOUNTRY DANCE & SON…COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER INC — $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY MUSIC CEN…Safe Abortions For Everyone — $2,500 · OtherSafe Abortions For …+1 more — $1,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$57,508Food & Nutrition$57,500Philanthropy$50,000Other$33,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJusticeAid — $17,008 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBIODYNAMIC ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Atlantic Arts Alliance — $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL — $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Academy of Modern Music — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIndigo Arts Alliance — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPACE Gallery — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSafe Abortions For Everyone — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Slade Hill Foundation 009256-000 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to The Slade Hill Foundation 009256-000?

    Find your warmest path to The Slade Hill Foundation 009256-000 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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