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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.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$736kHealth$540kEducation$221kCivil Rights$190kFood & Nutrition$105kAnimals$99kHuman Services$65kHousing & Shelter$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $330k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $5k → 11%VALLEY NEIGHBORS: $1k → 14%PREBLE STREET: $15k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $10k → 7%EQUALITY MAINE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $5k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $5k → 7%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 31 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
16

Total granted

$2.0M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+20%

Still filing today

65%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TE
    THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +159%
  • Portland Museum of Art
    9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +33%
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -44%
  • FB
    FIRST BOOK
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -27%
  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +20%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
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
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Portland Public Library

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…

Education
5
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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6
Abbe Museum

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

Arts & Culture
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
8
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
9
Mit Free Speech Alliance

To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community

Civil Rights
10
Maine Medical Association

To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.

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11
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
12
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
26/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $160,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $140,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE FOOD BANK: $65,000 · OtherTHE FOOD BANKWILLISTON NORTHAMTON SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $55,000 · OtherWILLISTON NORTHAMTON SCHOOL ANNUAL FUNDREACH OUT AND READ -- LA: $42,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherORCHARD HOUSE: $35,000 · Other+25 more: $279,000 · Other+25 moreTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC: $230,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE …Portland Museum of Art: $170,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of ArtMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $160,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSEMERSON UMBRELLA INC: $92,500 · Arts & CultureEMERSON UMBRELLA INC+3 more: $17,500 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $130,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…MaineHealth: $120,000 · HealthMaineHealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $55,000 · HealthPlanned Parenth…THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL: $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $15,000 · EducationTHE JONES LIBRARY INC: $12,000 · EducationFIRST BOOK: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSTAND UP TO CANCER: $65,000 · PhilanthropyREADER TO READER INC: $23,000 · PhilanthropyPREBLE STREET: $40,000 · Human ServicesMaine Needs Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesEqualityMaine Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesONE SIMPLE WISH INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $62,500 · Animals
Other$941,000Arts & Culture$670,000Health$305,000Education$107,000Philanthropy$88,000Human Services$86,000Animals$62,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC: $230,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $170,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $130,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaineHealth: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON UMBRELLA INC: $92,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $62,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADER TO READER INC: $23,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetEqualityMaine: $20,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetThe Telling Room: $20,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JONES LIBRARY INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqualityMaine Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSPOETRY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Maine Needs Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE JONES LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds EqualityMaine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Community Foundation …Maine Community Found…The Beveridge Family …Saco & Biddeford Savi…Ro Family FoundationThe Harold & Mary Lou…The Mo and Cher Wille…Douglas E Mitchell Ch…The Kirby Family Foun…The Mimi FoundationFlorence Savings Char…The Widgeon Point Cha…
Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Xeric Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Xeric Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home