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Business Education Partnership Foundation

Connecting people, training and employment

$772k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Community Improvement$303kEducation$75kHealth$70kEnvironment$61k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $355,178, the rows itemized in this filing. The $771,570 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $416,392 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $192k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY COORDINATORS COLLABORATIV: $30k → 7%COAST X: $28k → 9%MAINE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $77k → 12%CENTRAL MAINE HEALTHCARE: $70k → 13%CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF MAINE: $10k → 15%PISCATAQUIS COUNTY CHAMBER OF: $45k → 15%IGNITE PI: $50k → 15%COMMUNITY COORDINATORS COLLABORATIV: $25k → 7%MAINE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $16k → 12%LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN: $25k → 13%PISCATAQUIS COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $35k → 15%ST JOHN VALLEY TECHNOLOGY CENTER: $65k → 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.
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 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 & 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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2
Coastal Enterprises Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Maine State Chamber of Commerce

Enhance the business climate, the quality of life, and economic wellbeing of the businesses and people of maine

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4
Northern Maine Development Commission

To serve the northern Maine region with effective regional community planning and economic development.

Community Improvement
5
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
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
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative

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…

Animals
8
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.

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9
Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council

To promote business and economic development in the cities of lewiston and auburn

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10
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
11
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.

Science & Tech
12
ClimateWork Maine

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Conservation Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Maine Development Foundation: $93,129 · Community ImprovementMaine Development FoundationIGNITE PRESQUE ISLE: $50,000 · Community ImprovementIGNITE PRESQUE ISLEPiscataquis County Economic Development Council: $35,000 · Community ImprovementPiscataquis County Economic Development Counc…LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementLEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMME…ST JOHN VALLEY TECHNOLOGY CENTER: $64,743 · OtherST JOHN VALLEY TECHNOLOGY CENTERCOMMUNITY COORDINATORS COLLABORATIV: $55,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COORDINATORS COLLABORATIVPISCATAQUIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $45,000 · OtherPISCATAQUIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCECENTRAL MAINE HEALTHCARE CORPORATION: $69,758 · HealthCENTRAL MAINE H…MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $33,445 · EnvironmentMAINE CONSERV…COASTX: $28,000 · EnvironmentCOASTXTHE CHALLENGER LEARNING CNTR OF ME: $10,000 · Education
Community Improvement$203,129Other$164,743Health$69,758Environment$61,445Education$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaine Development Foundation: $93,129 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRAL MAINE HEALTHCARE CORPORATION: $69,758 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIGNITE PRESQUE ISLE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPISCATAQUIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $45,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPiscataquis County Economic Development Council: $35,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $33,445 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOASTX: $28,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetLEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CHALLENGER LEARNING CNTR OF ME: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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…Fidelity Investments …
Maine Community Foundation IncME19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Business Education Partnership Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Business Education Partnership Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Business Education Partnership Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Business Education Partnership 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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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