· Private foundation
The Widgeon Point Charitable 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAIL MAINE | $86,000 |
| PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | $35,000 |
| MAINE COMMUNITY SWIMMING FOUNDATION OF PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| BESSEMER GIVING FUND | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHENS | $6,500 |
| RIPPLEFFECT INC | $6,000 |
| I'M YOUR NEIGHBOR BOOKS | $5,000 |
| HAND IN HAND MANO EN MANO | $4,000 |
| PORTLAND COMMUNITY SQUASH | $4,000 |
| ALLAGASH WILDERNESS WATERWAY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ON BELAY | $3,500 |
| SLOW FOOD TAHOE | $3,500 |
| QUEERLY ME | $2,500 |
| PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| OUT MAINE | $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 (FY17–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
184 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 136 since wound down; 9 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- PCPortland Community Squash8× · 2017–2025 · $723k · revenue +107%
- SMSAIL MAINE8× · 2017–2025 · $661k · revenue +66%
- TBTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK4× · 2017–2021 · $446k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $275k · revenue +40%
- BRBEINECKE RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $250k
- MCMAYO CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $250k
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…
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
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…
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
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 The Neue Galerie New York. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
212 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. 212 of the 373 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds Portland Community Squash ↗
- Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds HALCYON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds RIPPLEFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds Portland Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
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 · Onion Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · United Way Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · 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 Widgeon Point Charitable 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.
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc — 4% 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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