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Bangor Savings Bank Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
156
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$1.2MEducation$1.1MHuman Services$740kPhilanthropy$481kArts & Culture$422kFood & Nutrition$391kEnvironment$371kYouth Development$328kOther$0
02FY2025 · 156 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k135 grants · $546k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $305k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LifeFlight Foundation$50,000
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation$50,000
Northeastern University$50,000
Bangor Region YMCA$50,000
MaineHealth$50,000
Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters$50,000
Heart of Maine United Way$42,450
Acadia Hospital Corp$40,000
Avesta Housing Development Corporation$30,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank$25,000
Maine General Health$25,000
The Foundation for Maine Community Colleges$25,000
Mount Desert Island Hospital$20,000
United Way of Southern Maine$17,800
Seniors Plus$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $756k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Young People in Recovery: $6k → 11%Aspire Living and Learning Inc: $5k → 9%Northeast Kingdom Community Action: $8k → 14%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $5k → 15%Aspire Living and Learning Inc: $5k → 9%Gather: $8k → 5%Community Action Partnership of Strafford: $8k → 9%YMCA Camp of Maine: $5k → 12%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $5k → 15%Step Up Parents: $8k → 5%New Hampshire Catholic Charities: $25k → 7%Webster House: $9k → 7%Step Up Parents: $6k → 5%Wayfinder Schools: $8k → 11%American Red Cross: $13k → 7%Community Day Care Center Inc: $6k → 5%American Red Cross: $13k → 7%Haven - Violence Prevention & Support Services: $6k → 5%Wayfinder Schools: $7k → 11%Waldo County Woodshed: $8k → 13%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $8k → 12%Seniors Plus: $15k → 13%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $7k → 15%Stepping Stones: $8k → 7%Marguerite's Place Inc: $7k → 7%Seniors Plus: $8k → 13%Organization for Refugee & Immigrant Success: $6k → 7%Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services: $8k → 13%New Beginnings Inc: $8k → 13%Penobscot Bay YMCA: $10k → 11%Friends in Action: $6k → 11%Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition: $10k → 7%Area Interfaith Outreach: $8k → 11%Preble Street: $8k → 7%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Preble Street: $8k → 7%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Central Maine Area Agency on Aging: $6k → 12%Catherine Morrill Day Nursery: $8k → 7%Maine Needs: $6k → 7%Camp Capella: $8k → 11%Andy's Summer Playhouse: $8k → 7%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $6k → 7%The Front Door Agency: $6k → 7%Boys and Girls Club of Bangor: $10k → 15%Community Care: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
NH
MA
CT
CO
VA
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 150 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

150 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 79 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

150
298

Total granted

$4.2M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+8%

Still filing today

90%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k 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 ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • HU
    Husson University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +18%
  • M
    MaineHealth
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +30%
  • HO
    HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $239k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • MD
    Maine Department of Education
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • MC
    MAINE CENTER VENTURES
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -99%
  • NL
    Northern Light Health (fka Eastern Maine Medical Center)
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Maine GearShare

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

Recreation & Sports
2
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
3
Harbor House Community Service Center

To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.

Community Improvement
4
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
5
Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health
6
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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7
Community Health and Counseling Services

Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.

Health
8
Maine Pretrial Services

Provide low-income defendants assistance in obtaining pretrial release and supervision.

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9
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…

Health
10
Gateway Community Services Maine

Gateway Community Service seeks to encourage, support and build healthy connections with oneself and others in order to promote vibrancy and well-being, along with welcoming communities where all people feel accepted, valued and have a…

Human Services
11
Maine Affordable Housing Coalition

The organization advocates for the creation and preservation of affordable housing so all people in maine have a place to call home.

Civil Rights
12
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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Breaking the Cycle. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing ProvidersRural Healthcare SystemsFood Pantries and Basic Ass…Regional Institutions & Fou…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Member Recreation ClubsRegional History MuseumsEarly Childhood Care and Ed…Animal Rescue and Rehabilit…Professional & Industry Ass…Agricultural Fairs & Educat…Community Arts EducationProfessional & Trade Associ…Regional Land and Water Con…Veterans Service Organizati…Service Clubs and Community…Family Philanthropic Founda…Youth Summer CampsAlternative K-12 SchoolsPublic Library SupportRegional Community ServicesMaine Advocacy and Communit…Maine Community Support Org…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%14%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr18%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%9%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr18%35%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.2%1/483
the rest of the field
9%
1,127/12,118

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.

04the grantee network

443 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. 443 of the 530 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
88
Early backer (in before they grew)
437/443
Grantees still filing
253/443
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MaineHealth — $250,000 · HealthMaineHealthLifeFlight Foundation — $200,000 · HealthLifeFlight FoundationAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital — $80,000 · HealthAcadia Hospital Corp …THE JACKSON LABORATORY — $60,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATOR…St Mary's Regional Medical Center — $50,000 · HealthChildren's Center Early Intervention & Family Support — $34,500 · Health+21 more — $271,500 · Health+21 moreHusson University — $400,000 · EducationHusson UniversityThe Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges — $225,000 · EducationThe Foundation for M…MAINE CENTER VENTURES — $50,000 · EducationMAINE CENTER VENTURE…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERS…+14 more — $178,000 · Education+14 moreJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc — $150,000 · OtherJobs for Maine's Graduates IncUnited Way of Southern Maine — $71,200 · OtherMaine Department of Education — $50,000 · OtherMaine General Health — $50,000 · OtherEcology Education Inc — $75,000 · OtherBOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY — $90,000 · OtherBOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALL…+78 more — $972,020 · Other+78 moreBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $204,000 · Human ServicesBANGOR YOUNG …New Hampshire Catholic Charities — $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 · Human ServicesSENIORSPLUS — $22,500 · Human Services+34 more — $335,700 · Human Services+34 moreMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $150,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Pub…Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters — $150,000 · Arts & CultureFriends o…RAYE'S MUSTARD MILL MUSEUM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureRAYE'S MU…PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $56,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY — $238,850 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY — $25,350 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Inc — $15,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation — $15,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $44,000 · PhilanthropyGood Shepherd Food Bank — $140,000 · Food & NutritionTrinity Jubilee Center Inc — $30,000 · Food & NutritionLocker Project — $25,000 · Food & NutritionVEGGIES TO TABLE — $18,500 · Food & NutritionPISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CENTER — $11,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY — $11,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Federation of Farmers Markets — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more — $36,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$946,000Education$903,000Other$1,458,220Human Services$612,200Arts & Culture$401,000Philanthropy$388,200Food & Nutrition$281,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHusson University — $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMaineHealth — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY — $238,850 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetThe Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges — $225,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $204,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation — $200,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters — $150,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY — $90,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEcology Education Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE CENTER VENTURES — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSt Mary's Regional Medical Center — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Center Early Intervention & Family Support — $34,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHOME INC — $25,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY — $25,350 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSt Joseph Healthcare Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLocker Project — $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER CITY ATHLETICS — $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAYE'S MUSTARD MILL MUSEUM — $25,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSENIORSPLUS — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRTR BANGOR — $22,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN BAPST MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COURAGEOUS STEPS PROJECT INC — $18,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetVEGGIES TO TABLE — $18,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetSafe Voices — $18,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBangor Humane Society — $18,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFair Tide — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL — $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Fisher Charitable Fou…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Davis Family Foundati…Simmons Foundation - …Sam L Cohen FoundationOnion FoundationAgnes M Lindsay TrustLibra FoundationMaine Health Access F…
Maine Community Foundation IncME190.7× affinity278 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Libra Foundation · Maine Health Access 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 Bangor Savings Bank 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc — 82% of income from government
  • Aspire Living & Learning Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 530 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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