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Catholic Charities Maine
Catholic Charities Maine is one of the largest statewide, private, nonprofit, social service agencies in Maine and is committed to improving the quality of life for the individual, the family and the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $1,914,958 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,284,575 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,369,617 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $757k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maine Immigrant Refugee Services | $689,177 |
| Jewish Community Alliance | $329,405 |
| Augusta School Department | $202,607 |
| New Mainers Public Health Initiative | $120,076 |
| Biddeford School Department | $114,375 |
| Brunswick School Department | $102,574 |
| Portland Public Schools | $94,238 |
| Lewiston Public Schools | $72,934 |
| University of Maine | $50,492 |
| Old Town School Department (RSU34) | $48,000 |
| Westbrook School Department | $43,180 |
| Penobscot Community Health Center | $8,900 |
| Birch Street Community Health Center | $7,200 |
| MMC International Clinic (Maine Med Partners Bramhall) | $7,200 |
| Maine General Medical Center Augusta | $7,200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MIMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES4× · 2022–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +157%
- JCJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine4× · 2022–2025 · $878k · revenue +69%
- GCGateway Community Services Maine6× · 2019–2024 · $492k · revenue ×11 · 55% of their budget
Funded once
- CECAPE ELIZABETH SCHOOL DEPARTMENTone grant, 2024 · $73k
- COCITY OF BIDDEFORD MAINEone grant, 2019 · $10k
- NENEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Maine primary care association's mission is to champion and maximize the value of the statewide network of community health centers for the health and well-being of all maine people
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.
Waldo County General Hospital's mission is to be the BEST - Better, Empathy, Service and Teamwork. Our goal is to ensure quality, accessible and affordable health care services and to improve the health and well-being of our community.
Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.
Ensured a high quality, accessible, affordable and appropriate integrated health care system to improve the health and well being of the community.
MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
LincolnHealth is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of our communities by assuring: the very best, highest quality, and compassionate health care services from highly trained professionals; our services are cost-effective…
To work cooperatively with other concerned individuals and organizations to achieve the highest level of health and wellness possible for the people of west central Maine.
MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services and the most unlike its peers is Biddeford Public School Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 27 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 IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds Gateway Community Services Maine ↗
- Who funds BIDDEFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Portland Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds Penobscot Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds Community Clinical Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MAINE HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
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 · Good Shepherd Food Bank · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Full Plates Full Potential · United Way Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · The Hudson Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Maine Cancer Foundation · Northeast Delta Dental Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson
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 Catholic Charities Maine 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.