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Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead

VAUGHAN WOODS AND HISTORIC HOMESTEAD connects people to place through nature, history and the arts by preserving and stewarding its natural, cultural and historical resources and sharing them with the community of hallowell, maine and beyond.

$2k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$1,600
Largest grant, FY2021
$1,600
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$4.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21
Food & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$2k50%
FY20206$5k83%
FY20172$2kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$5kCommunity Improvement$2kFood & Nutrition$2kEnvironment$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hubbard Free Library$3,00021%
The Kennebec Land Trust$1,00010%
Hallowell Foodbank Inc$5001n/a
Augusta Food Bank$50010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Elsie & William Viles…Kennebec Savings Bank…
Elsie & William Viles FoundationME13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elsie & William Viles Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead?

Find your warmest path to Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead

How much does Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead give?
Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead reported 2 grants totaling $2,170 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (56%), Community Improvement (17%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
Who are Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Hubbard Free Library ($3k), The Kennebec Land Trust ($1k), Hallowell Foodbank Inc ($500).
Does Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Elsie & William Viles Foundation, Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation.
Where is Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead based?
Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead is based in ME.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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