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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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$689k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$2.5MEducation$2.0MPhilanthropy$682kYouth Development$282kHealth$251kCrime & Legal$104kEmployment$29kInternational$7k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $1,914,958, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,284,575 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,369,617 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $757k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$50,492
Median grant
1
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MMC International Clinic (Maine Med Partners Bramhall)$7,200
Birch Street Community Health Center$7,200
Maine General Medical Center Augusta$7,200
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services: $825k → 13%Maine Immigrant Refugee Services: $689k → 13%Maine Immigrant Refugee Services: $523k → 13%Maine Immigrant Refugee Services: $104k → 13%Gateway Community Services: $132k → 7%Gateway Community Services Inc: $116k → 7%Gateway Community Services: $78k → 7%Gateway Community Services Inc: $75k → 7%Gateway Community Services Inc: $54k → 7%Gateway Community Services Inc: $38k → 7%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $55k → 7%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $18k → 7%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 18 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against -22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$5.7M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
-22%

Still filing today

39%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MI
    Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +157%
  • JC
    Jewish Community Alliance
    4× · 2022–2025 · $878k · revenue +69%
  • GC
    Gateway Community Services
    6× · 2019–2024 · $492k · revenue ×11 · 55% of their budget

Funded once

  • CE
    Cape Elizabeth School Department
    one grant, 2024 · $73k
  • BS
    Biddeford School Department
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • NE
    New England Arab American Organization
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -22%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
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…

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2
Maine Primary Care Association

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

Health
3
Waldo County General Hospital

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.

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4
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.

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5
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
6
MaineGeneral Health and Affiliates

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.

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7
Community Health and Nursing Services

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

Health
8
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
9
Western Maine Health Care Corp

Ensured a high quality, accessible, affordable and appropriate integrated health care system to improve the health and well being of the community.

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10
LincolnHealth Group

LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.

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11
Lincolnhealth

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…

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12
Franklin Community Health Network

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services: $2,141,383 · Human ServicesMaine Immigrant & Refugee ServicesGateway Community Services: $491,769 · Human ServicesGateway Community Services+2 more: $80,179 · Human ServicesPortland Public Schools: $626,035 · OtherPortland Public SchoolsAugusta School Department: $359,685 · OtherAugusta School DepartmentLewiston Public Schools: $185,542 · OtherLewiston Public SchoolsBrunswick School Department: $185,483 · OtherBrunswick School DepartmentWestbrook School Department: $146,866 · OtherWestbrook School DepartmentUniversity of Maine: $104,937 · OtherUniversity of MaineSouth Portland School Department: $73,708 · OtherCape Elizabeth School Department: $72,750 · Other+7 more: $91,816 · OtherJewish Community Alliance: $878,193 · PhilanthropyJewish Community…New Mainers Public Health Initiative: $178,311 · HealthGreater Portland Health: $11,400 · HealthPenobscot Community Health Center: $8,900 · HealthBirch Street Community Health Center: $7,200 · Health+1 more: $5,400 · HealthBiddeford School Department: $179,039 · Youth DevelopmentOld Town School Department (RSU34): $48,000 · Education
Human Services$2,713,331Other$1,846,822Philanthropy$878,193Health$211,211Youth Development$179,039Education$48,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaine Immigrant & Refugee Services: $2,141,383 over 4y, 21% of budgetJewish Community Alliance: $878,193 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetGateway Community Services: $491,769 over 6y, 55% of budgetBiddeford School Department: $179,039 over 2y, 96% of budgetNew Mainers Public Health Initiative: $178,311 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGreater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $73,179 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetOld Town School Department (RSU34): $48,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Portland Health: $11,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Arab American Organization: $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMaineHealth Maine Medical Center Saco: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Gateway Community Services ↗
  • Who funds Biddeford School Department ↗
  • Who funds New Mainers Public Health Initiative ↗
  • Who funds Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center ↗
  • Who funds Old Town School Department (RSU34) ↗
  • Who funds Greater Portland Health ↗
  • Who funds Penobscot Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds Birch Street Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds New England Arab American Organization ↗
  • Who funds Southern Maine Health Care Biddeford ↗
  • Who funds MaineHealth Maine Medical Center Saco ↗

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…Good Shepherd Food Ba…John T Gorman Foundat…Elmina B Sewall Found…Full Plates Full Pote…United Way IncMaine Health Access F…The Hudson FoundationMaine InitiativesincMaine Cancer Foundati…Northeast Delta Denta…Simmons Foundation - …
Maine Community Foundation IncME35.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Catholic Charities Maine funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catholic Charities Maine. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    3report 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.

    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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