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· Public charity
BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
Connecting people, training and employment
$772k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
1
Communities
$77k
Largest
01What you fund
0168% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Community Improvement$203kHealth$70kEnvironment$61kEducation$10kOther$165k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2023
healthcare
2024
revitalizationpromoting
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $192k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
- MAINE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$77,435
- ST JOHN VALLEY TECHNOLOGY CENTER$64,743
- IGNITE PI$50,000
- PISCATAQUIS COUNTY CHAMBER OF$45,000
- PISCATAQUIS COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL$35,000
- COMMUNITY COORDINATORS COLLABORATIV$30,000
- COAST X$28,000
- LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN$25,000
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 83% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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 Public Broadcasting Corporation
Maine Public is Maine's premier, independent media resource serving the entirety of Maine, dedicated to creating exceptional opportunities for the communities it serves to engage with critical issues, compelling stories, and quality…
Arts & Culture
2
Presque Isle Community Development Association
To promote and encourage economic development, revitalization and growth in a manner that is conducive to quality of life.
Community Improvement
3
Maine & Company
Economic development in Maine.
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4
Maine Coast Fishermens Assn
We work to ensure that fishermen have a community infrastructure and the environmental resources to maintain maines coastal cultural identity and sustain a vibrant working waterfront for each generation of maine fishermen through…
Environment
5
Central Maine Medical Center
Cmmc strives to provide exceptional healthcare services. the hospital depends on the expertise of its caregivers in addition to the commitment and compassion they provide.
Health
6
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Eastern Maine Medical Center d/b/a Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center strives to provide exceptional primary and specialty healthcare with a passionate pursuit of excellence in patient safety, clinical quality, and service. Our…
Health
7
Penobscot Marine Museum
Penobscot marine museum inspires curiosity and fosters understanding about life and work on the maine coast to encourage stewardship of our communities and the sea.
Arts & Culture
8
Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities
The Hospital is a not-for-profit entity established to provide health care services through its acute care facility and physician practices.
Health
9
Waypoint Maine Inc
Assist developmentally disabled persons.
Human Services
10
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries
1) Deliver practical tools and support for today's fishermen to adapt and succeed in a changing fishery.2) Partner with schools and community based groups to provide 9-12, university-level, and professional education to prepare community…
Science & Tech
11
Northern Maine Development Commission
To serve the northern Maine region with effective regional community planning and economic development.
Community Improvement
12
MaineHealth
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Conservation Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Ignite Presque Isle. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$203,129Other$164,743Health$69,758Environment$61,445Education$10,000
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 DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MAINE HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds IGNITE PI ↗
- Who funds PISCATAQUIS COUNTY CHAMBER OF ↗
- Who funds PISCATAQUIS COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ORGANIZING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COAST X ↗
- Who funds LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF MAINE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Maine Community Foundation IncME19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Maine Community 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 organisation BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely 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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COAST X.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 992674132 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on COAST X, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 80% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Business Education Partnership?
Find your warmest path to Business Education Partnership through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines