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Triton 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 $10k29 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Frinds of Spannocchia | $32,000 |
| 317 Main Music Center | $7,000 |
| Rural Youth Institute | $5,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $5,000 |
| Kieve Leadershiop Program | $5,000 |
| ILAP | $3,000 |
| Maine Conservation Alliance | $2,500 |
| Planned Parenthood of NNE | $2,250 |
| Fork Food Lab | $2,000 |
| Carrabassett Valley Academy | $2,000 |
| Tree Street Youth | $2,000 |
| Center for Grieving Children | $2,000 |
| United Way of Greater Portland | $1,500 |
| Maine Womens Lobby | $1,500 |
| Preble Street Resource Center | $1,250 |
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, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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 +38% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +42%- MWMAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +102%
- TSTREE STREET YOUTH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- PEP E R C INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -58%
- MSMain St Music Centerone grant, 2020 · $1k
- FOFriends of Maine State Libraryone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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…
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to…
To build lasting prosperity without sacrificing the quality of life that defines maine.
The Land Peace Foundation is an Indigenous led educational organization that is dedicated to preserving the Indigenous way of life and cultivating strong Indigenous leadership. We are also deeply committed to stewarding responsible climate…
Maine Equal Justice is a nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity and equity for people in Maine.
ClimateWork Maine (CWM) is a private non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Maine that serves as a support network for businesses and business leaders that are taking action on climate change, to meet its challenges and to seize the…
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.
MCCE is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to ensure that Maine's campaign finance laws, elections, and government serve the public interest, both in principal and practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Allie's Friends Foundation. 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 32 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 55 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Spannocchia ↗
- Who funds MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY ↗
- Who funds TREE STREET YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Copper River Watershed Project ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Rural Youth Institute ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds In Her Presence ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds Carrabassett Valley Academy ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Fork Food Lab ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds Imaging the World Corp ↗
- Who funds ALLIE'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds P E R C INC ↗
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 · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Peter Alfond Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · John T Gorman Foundation · Onion Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Hudson Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Libra 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 Triton 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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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