· Private foundation
Xeric 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $30,000 |
| THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BK ART INC | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $30,000 |
| MAINE MEDICAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND | $10,000 |
| UMASS AMHERST FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EQUALITY MAINE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 14% 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 +20% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 10 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- TETHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +159%
Portland Museum of Art9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +33%
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +29%
Funded once
SHARE OUR STRENGTHone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -44%- MPMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCEone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -45%
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +20%
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.
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 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.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 58 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 THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds EMERSON UMBRELLA INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds READER TO READER INC ↗
- Who funds EqualityMaine ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Maine Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JONES LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds EqualityMaine Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Ro Family Foundation · The Harold & Mary Louise Shaw Foundation · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · Douglas E Mitchell Charitable Foundation · The Kirby Family Foundation · The Mimi Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable 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 Xeric 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.
- Center for New Americans Inc — 45% of income from government
- Reader to Reader Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- Emerson Umbrella Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 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.