· Private foundation
Theodores Family Foundation Theodores
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE BOYS TO MEN | $450 |
| SCOTTISH RITE LEGACY TRUST | $350 |
| MASONIC HEALTH SYSTEM | $269 |
| STS CONSTANTINE & HELEN CHURCH | $250 |
| CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE | $150 |
| CARBON 180 | $150 |
| CENTER FOR GRIVING CHILDREN | $125 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 44% of Theodores Family Foundation Theodores’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 -22% since the first grant, against -33% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $675 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
- MBMAINE BOYS TO MEN6× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue -22%
- SRSCOTTISH RITE LEGACY TRUST4× · 2017–2022 · $950
- MHMASONIC HEALTH SYSTEM5× · 2017–2022 · $769
Funded once
- SCST CONST AND HELEN2× · 2020–2021 · $200
- CFCENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $100
- FOFRIENDS OF CASCO BAYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue +73%
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.
Provides Advocacy, Education, Support, and Awareness so that individuals, families, and communities affected by Mental Illness can live fulfilling lives.
The mission of NAMI Rhode Island is to educate the public about mental illness; to offer resources and support to all whose lives are touched by mental illness; to advocate at every level to ensure the rights and dignity of those with…
The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
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…
The maine society of certified public accountants is the statewide professional organization for cpas in maine. the society serves approximately 575 members with professional meetings, education, and advocacy.
The Autism Society of Maine provides education and resources to support the valued lives of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.
Maine Rivers is a statewide advocacy organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine's river systems. We support and direct efforts to conserve and improve the health of Maine's rivers and…
Adoptive and foster families of maine inc. provides support services for adoptive and foster parents, and kinship providers. affm provides the training, guidance, knowledge, and resources needed to handle complex issues as families open…
Educating and informing the public about the challenges of climate change and related legislative and administrative developments, government positions and actions, and policy initiatives and proposals; making policy recommendations; and…
We seek to improve the quality of life for people living with mental health conditions, their families, and their caregivers. we work to ensure that all people impacted by a mental health condition receive the support they need when they…
Our mission is to support and advocate for maines incarcerated citizens, their families and friends. our purpose is to reduce maines use of incarceration by advocating for a legal system that is ethical, humane and restorative. our vision…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 MAINE BOYS TO MEN ↗
- Who funds BEEHIVE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds NAMI CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds Family Hope ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Theodores Family Foundation Theodores 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.
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.