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The Verrill Foundation
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 $10k18 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALERIE'S HOUSE | $25,000 |
| JUDI'S HOUSE | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE | $10,000 |
| PREBLE STREET | $9,000 |
| MILESTONE RECOVERY | $8,000 |
| DEMPSEY CENTER | $8,000 |
| THE LOCKER PROJECT | $8,000 |
| WAYSIDE FOODS | $8,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| JR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON | $7,500 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| QUEST BRIDGE | $5,000 |
| PORTLAND TRAILS | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOC FOR PSYCHED | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +75% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- VHVALERIE'S HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +672%
- FCFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST5× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +476%
- PSPREBLE STREET9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $13k
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -40%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.
Crossroads provides gender-responsive addiction and behavioral health treatment services in a safe and respectful environment so individuals and families can lead healthy lives.
To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.
The mission of Safe Voices is to provide person-to-person, individualized advocacy for all survivors of domestic abuse and violence, sex trafficking, and sexual exploitation in Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties and engage our…
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
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…
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…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Bay cove human services' mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. bay cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…
The Well's mission is to deliver real solutions in behavioral health through compassion, innovation, and collaboration. By building an inclusive community, we offer comprehensive treatment and resources to empower individuals of diverse…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 88 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 VALERIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LUZ DE VIDA FORMERLY CORAZON DE ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care ↗
- Who funds START SMALL THINK BIG INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND TRAILS ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Invest In Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Locker Project ↗
- Who funds Robbie Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASPAR INC ↗
- Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Sweetser ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds Falmouth Memorial Library Association ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
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 · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson
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 Verrill 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Brookview House Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Caspar Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Valerie's House 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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