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Bangor Savings Bank Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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, $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 its 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%YMCA Camp of Maine: $5k → 12%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $5k → 15%Aspire Living and Learning Inc: $5k → 9%Step Up Parents: $8k → 5%Community Action Partnership of Strafford: $8k → 9%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $5k → 15%Gather: $8k → 5%New Hampshire Catholic Charities: $25k → 7%Webster House: $9k → 7%Step Up Parents: $6k → 5%American Red Cross: $13k → 7%Wayfinder Schools: $8k → 11%Community Day Care Center Inc: $6k → 5%American Red Cross: $13k → 7%Waldo County Woodshed: $8k → 13%Haven - Violence Prevention & Support Services: $6k → 5%Wayfinder Schools: $7k → 11%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%Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services: $8k → 13%New Beginnings Inc: $8k → 13%Organization for Refugee & Immigrant Success: $6k → 7%Seniors Plus: $8k → 13%Penobscot Bay YMCA: $10k → 11%Friends in Action: $6k → 11%Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition: $10k → 7%Area Interfaith Outreach: $8k → 11%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Catherine Morrill Day Nursery: $8k → 7%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Preble Street: $8k → 7%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Bangor Region YMCA: $50k → 15%Preble Street: $8k → 7%Central Maine Area Agency on Aging: $6k → 12%Maine Needs: $6k → 7%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $6k → 7%Camp Capella: $8k → 11%Andy's Summer Playhouse: $8k → 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
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
MA
CT
CO
VA
GA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

+20%
+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
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

  • HU
    Husson University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +18%
  • M
    MaineHealth
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +49%
  • 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%
  • NH
    New Hampshire Catholic Charities
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +1%
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 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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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 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.
04the grantee network

443 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. 443 of the 530 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
89
Early backer (in before they grew)
437/443
Grantees still filing
255/443
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…+79 more: $978,020 · Other+79 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+33 more: $329,700 · Human Services+33 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 & NutritionLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $11,000 · Food & NutritionPISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CENTER: $11,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Federation of Farmers Markets: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $36,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$946,000Education$903,000Other$1,464,220Human Services$606,200Arts & Culture$401,000Philanthropy$388,200Food & Nutrition$281,500

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 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 Community Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's Regional Medical Center: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE CENTER VENTURES: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Center Early Intervention & Family Support: $34,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHOME INC: $25,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY: $25,350 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 budgetRIVER CITY ATHLETICS: $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSt Joseph Healthcare Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRTR BANGOR: $22,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetSENIORSPLUS: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BAPST MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFair Tide: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

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

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 Bangor Savings Bank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bangor Savings Bank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
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 530 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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