Skip to content
Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$267k
Granted FY2025still arriving
95
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$423kEducation$135kHuman Services$81kYouth Development$73kHousing & Shelter$24kHealth$17kRecreation & Sports$17kCommunity Improvement$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k90 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE$5,000
NEW VENTURES MAINE$5,000
WHEATON COLLEGE$5,000
JMG$5,000
LESLEY UNIVERSITY$5,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$5,000
WINTERKIDS$3,000
EMERSON COLLEGE$2,500
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO-FBO LUKE CHESELDINE$2,500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STEP UP PARENTS: $1k → 5%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $16k → 9%AUTISM SOCIETY OF MAINE: $200 → 12%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $5k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $500 → 9%CARING UNLIMITED: $250 → 9%CARING UNLIMITED: $250 → 9%CARING UNLIMITED: $250 → 9%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $500 → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $500 → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $250 → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $10k → 7%CARING UNLIMITED: $350 → 9%GRAHAMTASTIC CONNECTION: $500 → 9%GRAHAMTASTIC CONNECTION: $500 → 9%GRAHAMTASTIC CONNECTION: $250 → 9%SWEETSER: $1k → 9%AGE FRIENDLY SACO: $500 → 9%INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 7%ADOPTIVE AND FOSTER FAMILIES OF MAINE INC: $250 → 9%DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $250 → 9%FURNITURE FRIENDS: $500 → 9%INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION: $250 → 7%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
NH
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
TN
FL
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$272k · 81 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
94

Total granted

$272k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+10%

Still filing today

52%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • YC
    YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +10%
  • MF
    Maine Federation of Farmers Markets
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +116%
  • SA
    SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES OF MIDCOAST MAINE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • AH
    AVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue 0%
  • SS
    Sanford Schools Legacy Foundation Incorporatedgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +48%
  • MP
    My Place Teen Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +74%
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…

—
2
Maine & Company

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…

—
3
Maine Council on Aging

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…

Unclassified
4
Maine Medical Association

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

—
5
Sail Maine

To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.

Arts & Culture
6
Maine Community Foundation Inc

The Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine.

Philanthropy
7
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

—
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
Maine Jewish Film Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Manufacturers Association of Maine

The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.

—
11
Maine Film Center

To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.

—
12
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; 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.
04the grantee network

98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/98
Grantees still filing
62/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINE CREDIT UNION'S CAMPAIGN FOR ENDING HUNGER: $383,864 · Human ServicesMAINE CREDIT UNION'S CAMPAIGN FOR ENDING HUNGERPROSPERITYME: $30,500 · Human ServicesPROSPERITYMEYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $20,500 · Human Services+16 more: $21,800 · Human ServicesWINTERKIDS: $14,375 · OtherWINTERKIDSTHORNTON ACADEMY: $10,500 · OtherSEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES OF MIDCOAST MAINE: $8,000 · OtherMAINE ATTRACTION WATER SKI SHOW TEAM: $8,000 · Other+149 more: $190,260 · Other+149 moreBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen Center Inc: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIDDEFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,600 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $2,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,600 · Youth DevelopmentMaine Federation of Farmers Markets: $20,000 · Food & NutritionWayside Food Programs: $10,500 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank: $5,500 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR A GREEN FUTURE AKA GROWING TO GIVE: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionSanford Schools Legacy Foundation Incorporated: $12,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationRhodes College: $2,500 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationBRUNSWICK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,250 · EducationMIDCOAST SENIOR COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationYork County Community College Foundation: $1,850 · EducationMIDCOAST LITERACY: $1,500 · EducationBowdoin College: $1,500 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · Education+5 more: $2,050 · EducationAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,500 · Housing & ShelterJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC: $7,000 · International
Human Services$456,664Other$231,135Youth Development$48,700Food & Nutrition$38,500Education$34,650Housing & Shelter$15,500International$7,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAINE CREDIT UNION'S CAMPAIGN FOR ENDING HUNGER: $383,864 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetPROSPERITYME: $30,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Federation of Farmers Markets: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanford Schools Legacy Foundation Incorporated: $12,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $10,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES OF MIDCOAST MAINE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY YORK COUNTY MAINE: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrunswick Downtown Association: $3,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BA BRUNSWICK: $3,050 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIDDEFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetRhodes College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRUNSWICK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDCOAST SENIOR COLLEGE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SANFORD-SPRINGVALE: $1,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYork County Community College Foundation: $1,850 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYork Public Library: $1,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDCOAST LITERACY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBowdoin College: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Acts: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSweetser: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR A GREEN FUTURE AKA GROWING TO GIVE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAN ANGEL'S WING INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Theater Project: $1,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGrahamtastic Connection: $1,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE PLUS: $1,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCARING UNLIMITED: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP UP PARENTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE KITA CENTERINC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MAINE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Saco & Biddeford Savi…Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationBangor Savings Bank F…John T Gorman Foundat…Simmons Foundation - …Elmina B Sewall Found…United Way IncFisher Charitable Fou…Virginia Hodgkins Som…Agnes M Lindsay TrustStephen & Tabitha Kin…
Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable FoundationME96.1× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 228 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Atlantic Federal Credit Union’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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