· Private foundation
Tr Ua the Camden 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND TRUST | $12,000 |
| BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNICEF - NEW ENGLAND | $10,000 |
| GREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION | $10,000 |
| SAVE OUR HERITAGE INC | $7,000 |
| NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE | $6,000 |
| PINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC | $5,000 |
| PALAVER STRINGS INC | $5,000 |
| QUALITY HOUSING COALITION | $5,000 |
| MUSKIE FUND FOR LEGAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| MINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| THE GIRLS FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA | $5,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| CAMDEN CONFERENCE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- BCBAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +194%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +26%
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- OIOhio Innocence Projectone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MAMt Auburn Hospital FBO Healing Gardenone grant, 2020 · $5k
- RLROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -87%
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.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
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 the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
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…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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…
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
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Farmland Trust and the most unlike its peers is Save Our Heritage 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 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.
52 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. 52 of the 70 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 BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSKIE FUND FOR LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PALAVER STRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds The Genesis Fund ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds MEGUNTICOOK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds POWER SHIFT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds The Girls Foundation of Tanzania ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE HOMES ↗
- Who funds NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
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 · Otter Island Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Bertuzzi Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Aldermere Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
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 Tr Ua the Camden 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.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc — 1% 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.