Maine · Nonprofit
Secret Santa
Secret Santa (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being The William J J Gordon Family Foundation ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Secret Santa's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- California Correctional Peace Officers Associationportfolio match
- Sonance Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of Secret Santa’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Secret Santa draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared funderslocalME · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · funds 44 organizations near you
- California Correctional Peace Officers Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sonance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- L John & Deborah Arbizzani Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freda B Runyon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marchese Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Col L C Christensen Charitable and Religious Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James Previti Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John B & Edith D Carroll Family Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Loudermilk Family Christian Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pleasant Hill Rotary Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Secret Santa
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Secret Santa: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Secret Santa?
- Secret Santa (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being The William J J Gordon Family Foundation ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Secret Santa have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,000 in grants to Secret Santa, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Secret Santa?
- The William J J Gordon Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Secret Santa find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing