· Private foundation
Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k90 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE CREDIT UNIONS' CAMPAIGN FOR ENDING HUNGER | $128,023 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $20,500 |
| YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP | $15,500 |
| WAYSIDE FOOD PROGRAMS | $10,500 |
| MAINE NEEDS | $10,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE | $5,000 |
| NEW VENTURES MAINE | $5,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LESLEY UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| JMG | $5,000 |
| WINTERKIDS | $3,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO-FBO LUKE CHESELDINE | $2,500 |
| EMERSON COLLEGE | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 52 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- MFMaine Federation of Farmers Markets2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +116%
- SASEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES OF MIDCOAST MAINE3× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +18%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC2× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- AHAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue 0%
- SSSanford Schools Legacy Foundation Incorporatedgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +48%
- MYMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skateparkgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +69%
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…
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.
The Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine.
To promote and ensure workers' rights
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 Maine Jewish Film Festival celebrates filmmakinginspiring conversation through the lens of global Jewish experience. Innovative programming invites a diverse statewide audience into the dialogue. Many of our programs include guest…
The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.
To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Foundation. 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 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 228 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MAINE CREDIT UNION'S CAMPAIGN FOR ENDING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Federation of Farmers Markets ↗
- Who funds AVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Sanford Schools Legacy Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark ↗
- Who funds My Place Teen Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds Maine Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES OF MIDCOAST MAINE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY YORK COUNTY MAINE ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Downtown Association ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BA BRUNSWICK ↗
- Who funds BIDDEFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · United Way Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Stephen & Tabitha King 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 Atlantic Federal Credit Union 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 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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