· Private foundation
Tom and Kate Chappell Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF MONHEGAN VFD | $30,000 |
| ANNIES ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND | $25,000 |
| HYDE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MITCHELL INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HOPE CEMETERY | $10,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVATORY | $5,000 |
| TEMPO ART FUNDING PROSPOSAL | $5,000 |
| PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| HAYSTACK MOUNT SCHOOL OF CRAFTS | $3,500 |
| SACO RIVER THEATRE | $2,750 |
| MAINE FARMLAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| PORTLAND COMMUNITY SQUASH | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 25% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
TRINITY COLLEGE6× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +31%- SGSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute6× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +26%
- AAANNIE'S ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND INC3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SMSaddleback Mountain Foundationone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -100%
- MHMECHANICS HALL CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -38%
- PDPROJECT DRAWDOWNgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +612%
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 connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
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.
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…
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
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…
Our Mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maines forest community
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 mission of the Maine Island Trail Association is to advance a model of thoughtful use and volunteer stewardship of Maine's wild islands, creating an inspiring recreational water trail that is cared for by the people who use it.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Humanities Council and the most unlike its peers is Hope Cemetery Corporation. 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 41 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 123 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 TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
- Who funds Saddleback Mountain Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANNIE'S ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Monhegan Historical & Cultural Museum Association ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Haystack Mountain School of Crafts ↗
- Who funds TEMPOART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOPE CEMETERY & WOODS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hyde School ↗
- Who funds The Saco River Theatre ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOPE CEMETERY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MECHANICS HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DRAWDOWN ↗
- Who funds Maine Jewish Film Festival ↗
- Who funds Kennebunk Land Trust ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds POETS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Community Squash ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
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 · Davis Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Spectemur Agendo Inc · Phineas W Sprague Memorial 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 Tom and Kate Chappell Family 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School 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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