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· Private foundation
CAPE ELIZABETH HOME
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$82k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
1
Communities
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Human Services$269kHealth$44kEducation$12kHousing & Shelter$8kArts & Culture$8kOther$67k
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
2020
—
2021
renovationseniorhospice
2022
—
2023
healtholder adultssouth portlandscarborough
2024
well-beingfoodpetseniorhealtholder adultscare
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
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
$7,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER INC$24,170
- SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING$15,000
- HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$10,000
- PEREGRINE CORPORATION$7,800
- SPEAK ABOUT IT INC$7,500
- VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$7,500
- EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING$5,000
- ST ANDRE HEALTH CARE$5,000
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:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 7%. 23% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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 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.
82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$334k · 8 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
5
Total granted
$334k
$37k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+35%
+38%
Still filing today
63%
40%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationOther
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
- SMSOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +35%
- HOHOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +67%
- PCPEREGRINE CORPORATION3× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +35%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLANDone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +14%- DBDIOCESAN BUREAU OF HOUSINGgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +38%
- RTREGIONAL TRANSPORT PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $8k
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 Veterans Home
Maine Veterans' Homes provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation, long term care, memory care, pharmacy support and consultation, and assisted living services for veterans and eligible family members at six facilities across Maine.
Health
2
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
3
Seacoast Health Systems Inc
To provide assisted living, skilled nursing and independent living for seniors and care for those residents that are indigent.
Human Services
4
Aroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc
To assist eldery citizens in northern Maine.
Human Services
5
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
6
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
7
Independence Advocates of Maine Inc
Residential, nursing care and community supports to adults with intellectual disabilities. Our mission is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities by
Human Services
8
New England College
An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.
Education
9
Coastline Elderly Services Inc
Coastline elderly services, inc. is a community-based elder care agency located in new bedford, massachusetts, that provides social services to the elderly in greater new bedford and surrounding areas.
Human Services
10
Northern Maine Medical Center
Acute care & long term care hospital and mental health services facility.
Health
11
Eastport Memorial Hospital
Inspired by our core values of dignity and respect, Eastport Memorial Nursing Home is committed to providing the highest quality of care in a safe, loving, compassionate and home-like environment.
Health
12
Sebasticook Valley Health
Sebasticook Valley Health d/b/a Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital is a critical access hospital whose mission is to be the regional leader in meeting the health needs of our communities, providing quality care, always treating…
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cedars Nursing Care Center and the most unlike its peers is University of New England. 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.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$268,980Other$67,475Health$44,170Education$12,000Housing & Shelter$7,500Arts & Culture$7,500
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 SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE ↗
- Who funds PEREGRINE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND COMMONS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN BUREAU OF HOUSING ↗
- Who funds SPEAK ABOUT IT INC ↗
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 Foundation IncME19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Narragansett Number One Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · John T Gorman Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 CAPE ELIZABETH HOME 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through 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: ISLAND COMMONS RESOURCE CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 010496139 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 ISLAND COMMONS RESOURCE CENTER, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Cape Elizabeth Home?
Find your warmest path to Cape Elizabeth Home 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.
More from the funding graph
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