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Woodside 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.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Recreation & Sports$43kHuman Services$35kEducation$22kInternational$22kArts & Culture$20kFood & Nutrition$15kEnvironment$12kAnimals$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$814k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Travis Mills Foundation$2,500
Good Shepherd Food Bank$2,500
Portland Community Squash$2,500
Freeport Community Services$2,500
Cradles to Crayons Inc$2,250
Maine Right to Life Committee Educational Fund$2,250
Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Inc$2,000
The Center for Grieving Children$2,000
Freeport Conservation Trust$1,500
Waldo Community Action Partners$1,000
Best Buddies International Inc$1,000
Genius Recovery Foundation Inc$1,000
Capital Area New Mainers Project$1,000
UBR (fka Unity Barn Raisers)$1,000
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project$1,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $2k → 8%Hippocrates Health Institute: $3k → 11%Max McCormick Memorial Foundation: $500 → 8%Henry Street Settlement: $1k → 17%Freeport Community Services: $3k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $1k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $500 → 7%Freeport Community Services: $500 → 7%Waldo Community Action Partners: $1k → 13%Hospice of Southern Maine: $1k → 7%Waldo Community Action Partners: $500 → 13%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $500 → 7%Waldo Community Action Partners: $400 → 13%Maine Needs: $1k → 7%Waldo Community Action Partners: $400 → 13%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $1k → 7%Maine Needs: $500 → 7%Waldo Community Action Partners: $200 → 13%Waldo Community Action Partners: $100 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NH
WA
NY
MA
SD
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$176k · 47 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
23

Total granted

$176k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+1%

Still filing today

85%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

  • PC
    Portland Community Squash
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +74%
  • TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +128%
  • SS
    STEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • SS
    SEE SCIENCE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • SH
    STEAMBOAT HEALTH & RECREATION ASSOCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +75%
  • WA
    WATERFALL ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Maine Rivers

Maine Rivers is a statewide advocacy organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine's river systems. We support and direct efforts to conserve and improve the health of Maine's rivers and…

Environment
2
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
3
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
4
Maine Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
6
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
7
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture
8
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
9
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
10
Maine Media College

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…

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11
30 Mile River Watershed Association

The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…

Environment
12
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Italian Greyhound Rescue Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Environmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Military Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%2%<5yr12%14%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr18%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%1%<5yr12%5%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr18%17%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
9%
845/9,480

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 80 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
42/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC — $10,112 · OtherSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INCWaterfall Arts — $6,500 · OtherWaterfall ArtsFreeport Conservation Trust — $3,750 · OtherVolunteers of America Inc — $3,600 · OtherSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC — $5,000 · OtherSEE SCIENCE CENTER INCWATERFALL ARTS — $3,500 · OtherANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $3,050 · OtherMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $3,900 · OtherIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $5,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECTTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $5,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN+37 more — $38,170 · Other+37 morePortland Community Squash — $24,100 · Recreation & SportsPortland Commun…STEAMBOAT HEALTH & RECREATION ASSOC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSTEAMBOAT HEALT…+1 more — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Washington-Waldorf School Inc — $10,033 · EducationThe Washingto…Cornerspring Montessori School — $6,000 · EducationCornerspring …ST PAUL'S SCHOOL — $3,500 · EducationST PAUL'S SCH…PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM — $2,600 · EducationPROPRIETORS O…MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION — $1,250 · EducationFriends of RSU5 co Mark Klein — $1,000 · EducationPINE TREE SOCIETY INC — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $600 · EducationTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Public BenefitTRAVIS MIL…UBR — $2,500 · Public BenefitUBRWreaths Across America — $2,005 · Public BenefitWreaths Ac…FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES — $4,500 · Human ServicesFREEPORT …HIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE INC — $3,125 · Human ServicesHIPPOCRAT…WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS — $2,600 · Human ServicesWALDO COM…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $2,250 · Human ServicesCRADLES T…Maine Needs Inc — $1,500 · Human ServicesMaine Nee…Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute — $1,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $1,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Southern Maine — $1,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Maine — $1,000 · Human Services+2 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE OF PERU PROJECT — $14,000 · InternationalPEOPLE OF…Best Buddies International Inc — $2,000 · InternationalBest Budd…UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC — $1,500 · InternationalUNRWA USA…International Rescue Committee INC — $1,000 · InternationalInternati…MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $7,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank — $4,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Farmland Trust — $3,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$87,582Recreation & Sports$30,100Education$25,983Public Benefit$19,505Human Services$18,975International$18,500Food & Nutrition$14,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPortland Community Squash — $24,100 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE OF PERU PROJECT — $14,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC — $10,112 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Washington-Waldorf School Inc — $10,033 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCornerspring Montessori School — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEAMBOAT HEALTH & RECREATION ASSOC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES — $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $3,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFreeport Conservation Trust — $3,750 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust — $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATERFALL ARTS — $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE INC — $3,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $3,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS — $2,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM — $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUBR — $2,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSmall Woodland Owners Association of Maine — $2,395 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCTIONAL FUND — $2,250 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $2,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America — $2,005 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOOSEHEAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,525 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Needs Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION — $1,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE-WABANAKI REACH — $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRestorative Justice Project Maine — $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of RSU5 co Mark Klein — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWINTERKIDS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetITALIAN GREYHOUND RESCUE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Healers International Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…Fisher Charitable Fou…Onion FoundationBangor Savings Bank F…Sam L Cohen FoundationJohn T Gorman Foundat…Simmons Foundation - …Saco & Biddeford Savi…Vincent B and Barbara…Maine Health Access F…Lennox Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME58.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Lennox 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 Woodside 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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