· Public charity
Business Education Partnership Foundation
Connecting people, training and employment
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $355,178 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $771,570 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $416,392 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 & 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…
Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.
Enhance the business climate, the quality of life, and economic wellbeing of the businesses and people of maine
To serve the northern Maine region with effective regional community planning and economic development.
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…
The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
To promote business and economic development in the cities of lewiston and auburn
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
ClimateWork Maine (CWM) is a private non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Maine that serves as a support network for businesses and business leaders that are taking action on climate change, to meet its challenges and to seize the…
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.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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
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 CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds IGNITE PRESQUE ISLE ↗
- Who funds PISCATAQUIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Piscataquis County Economic Development Council ↗
- Who funds MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COASTX ↗
- Who funds LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGER LEARNING CNTR OF ME ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Business Education Partnership 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.
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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