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Wind Point 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 $10k13 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mercy Corps | $15,000 |
| Oasis Free Clinics | $15,000 |
| Hospitality Homes Inc | $12,500 |
| Triangle Land Conservancy | $12,000 |
| Children's Literacy Foundation | $10,000 |
| Windrush Farm | $10,000 |
| Save the Children | $10,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $10,000 |
| The Telling Room | $8,000 |
| 317 Main Street Community Music Center | $8,000 |
| Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program | $7,000 |
| Tedford Housing | $7,000 |
| PORCH Hillsborough | $7,000 |
| Freeport Community Services | $7,000 |
| Friends of the Groton Elders | $7,000 |
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, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 18% 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 +6% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- OHOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +269%
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +392%
Hospitality Homes Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- NCNorth Carolina Community Fundone grant, 2024 · $10k
THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +45%
HOUSING FOR NEW HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +50%
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.
Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
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 create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
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.
Opportunity Council (The Council) helps address immediate and crisis-related basic needs such as food, emergency shelter, and eviction prevention. The Council also helps develop self-sufficiency and resiliency within our community by…
The Maine Philanthropy Center (MPC) is the state's leading resource that provides opportunity, leadership and support to advance the effectiveness of philanthropy in Maine and its ability to make a meaningful difference. It helps grant…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The Organization is committed to establishing a community that provides for the whole person with nourishing food, kindness and dignity. The Organization provides food directly to those experiencing food insecurity while also directing the…
Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groton Hill Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Porch-Hillsborough. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 31 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 OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Hospitality Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds TEDFORD HOUSING ↗
- Who funds 317 Main St Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GROTON ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
- Who funds GROTON HILL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Volunteers of America Northern New England ↗
- Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Porch-Hillsborough ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds WALLTOWN CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds Portland Community Squash ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S 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 · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · The Skerryvore Foundation Inc · Androscoggin Bank's Mainstreet Fdn Portland Trust Company LLC · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Boston 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 Wind Point 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music 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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