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Cape Elizabeth Home Dba Jonah and Elizabeth Dyer Char Corp

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202024.

Human Services$219kHealth$51kEducation$12kHousing & Shelter$10kArts & Culture$8kOther$58k
02FY2024 · 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
RecipientAmount
CEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER INC$24,170
SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING$15,000
HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$10,000
PEREGRINE CORPORATION$7,800
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$7,500
SPEAK ABOUT IT INC$7,500
EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING$5,000
ST ANDRE HEALTH CARE$5,000
02The need
03

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, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $15k → 9%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $11k → 15%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 9%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 15%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 15%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 15%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $50k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $20k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $20k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $15k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $15k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $10k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $5k → 7%PEREGRINE CORPORATION: $15k → 7%PEREGRINE CORPORATION: $8k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$284k · 8 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

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

$284k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SM
    Southern Maine Agency on Aging
    5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +46%
  • HO
    Hospice of Southern Maine
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +31%
  • EA
    Eastern Area Agency on Aging
    4× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • University of New England
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +14%
  • RT
    REGIONAL TRANSPORT PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • DB
    DIOCESAN BUREAU OF HOUSING
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +21%

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
Bangor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

It is the mission of the Bangor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to provide the highest level of care with the highest level of quality, competency and professionalism that focuses on the health andwell-being of the community it serves.

Health
2
Maine Veterans Home

To provide skilled, long term care, pharmacy and rehabilitation services for veterans, their spouses, widows, widowers, and gold star families.

Health
3
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
4
Community Health and Nursing Services

Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.

Health
5
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

6
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
7
Home for the Aged

To provide housing and services that enhance a person's quality of life, respect personal dignity, and accommodate the need for privacy and self-determination. In doing so, we aim to respond to the individual's changing needs brought about…

Human Services
8
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
9
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.

10
Southern Maine Health Care

Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.

11
Mid Coast Geriatric Services Corporation

Our mission is to provide supportive and rehabilitative health services in a residential environment. These services are integrated within the Mid Coast Health Services Organization, which spans the continuum of elder care needs.…

Health
12
Maine Health Care Association

The mission of the Maine Health Care Association is to promote and advance the delivery of high-quality health care, housing and supportive services to meet the needs of Maine's older and disabled populations.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Maine Agency on Aging and the most unlike its peers is Speak About It. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Southern Maine Agency on Aging — $110,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Maine Agency on AgingHospice of Southern Maine — $50,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Southern MaineEastern Area Agency on Aging — $36,180 · Human ServicesEastern Area Agency on AgingPEREGRINE CORPORATION — $22,800 · Human ServicesPEREGRINE CORPORATIONCITY OF SOUTH PORTLAND — $20,000 · OtherCITY OF SOUTH PORT…Volunteers of America Northern New England — $15,000 · OtherVolunteers of Amer…ANDROSCOGGIN HOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE — $10,000 · OtherANDROSCOGGIN HOME …REGIONAL TRANSPORT PROGRAM — $7,500 · OtherREGIONAL TRANSPORT…St Andre Health Care Facility — $5,000 · OtherSt Andre Health Ca…CEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER — $24,170 · HealthCEDARS NURSING C…ISLAND COMMONS RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 · HealthISLAND COMMONS R…VNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice — $7,000 · HealthVNA Home Health …University of New England — $12,000 · EducationDIOCESAN BUREAU OF HOUSING — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $2,975 · Housing & ShelterSPEAK ABOUT IT — $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$218,980Other$57,500Health$51,170Education$12,000Housing & Shelter$10,475Arts & Culture$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $110,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEastern Area Agency on Aging — $36,180 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER — $24,170 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEREGRINE CORPORATION — $22,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetISLAND COMMONS RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetVolunteers of America Northern New England — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of New England — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPEAK ABOUT IT — $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDIOCESAN BUREAU OF HOUSING — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Andre Health Care Facility — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $2,975 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 IncME25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Narragansett Number One Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson · Kennebunk Savings Bank Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable 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 organization Cape Elizabeth Home Dba Jonah and Elizabeth Dyer Char Corp 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cape Elizabeth Home Dba Jonah and Elizabeth Dyer Char Corp?

    Find your warmest path to Cape Elizabeth Home Dba Jonah and Elizabeth Dyer Char Corp 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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