· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 91 grants below total $4,168,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,880,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,712,150 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA | $212,500 |
| HAND IN HAND MANO EN MANO | $212,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $212,500 |
| SEABREEZE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| MAINE MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HOUSE | $187,500 |
| WILD CHILD DAYCARE CENTER | $110,200 |
| PJS CHILDCARE | $103,025 |
| COUNTRYSIDE KIDS QUALITY CHILDCARE | $100,000 |
| THE QUIMBY CHILD CARE CENTER | $100,000 |
| A JOYFUL NOISE PRESCHOOL & CHILDCARE CTR | $80,000 |
| BRETT DINOVI ASSOCIATES NORTH LLC | $80,000 |
| NATURE PLAY ALL DAY LLC | $80,000 |
| CROSSPOINT CHURCH | $80,000 |
| STEPPING STONES MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $75,425 |
| THE GOOD SCHOOL LLC | $74,300 |
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 (FY17–24, $751k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 75 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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
- BABATH AREA FAMILY YMCA2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +13%
- STSEEDLINGS TO SUNFLOWERS2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +50%
- HIHand in Hand Mano en Mano2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- PCPARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $266k · revenue +538%
- BCBOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -23%
- SCSUMMIT COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $250k
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.
To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.
Our mission is to provide quality, affordable early childhood education that fosters individual success and a lifelong love of learning.
Daycare services
The mission of the Mount Desert Island YMCA is to develop community, character, personal growth and wellness in spirit, mind, and body for the greater Mount Desert Island community.
Provides an inclusive enriching learning environment for students 15 months to 7 years of age
The Boothbay Region YMCA's programs are designed to strengthen individuals, families and the community. People of all ages, abilities, faiths, ethnic groups, and incomes connect through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body…
MaineAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and…
Youth and family social services
To coordinate, promote, and support the Jewish philanthropic, benevolent, educational, and communal activities in Southern Maine. To foster, develop, and encourage agencies as will best promote the welfare of this community.
Founded in 1979, the Childrens House Montessori School cultivates curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in young learners, while nurturing a sense of care for each other, the environment, and the world.
Little schoolhouse childcare has a specific educational focus on supporting the education of young children in the greenville, me area. lsc is governed by a volunteer board,including parents, caregivers,etc
We inspire and nurture lifelong development of youth, adults, families, and communities through programs that strengthen the spirit, mind, and body, while being welcoming and accessible to all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Penobscot Bay Ymca and the most unlike its peers is Hand in Hand Mano en Mano. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 135 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 PARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds SEEDLINGS TO SUNFLOWERS ↗
- Who funds BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds Downeast Family Young Mens Christian Association ↗
- Who funds MAINE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LEVEY DAY SCHOOL ↗
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 · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · YMCA Alliance of Northern New England · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · United Way Inc · Onion Foundation · Davis Family 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 Coastal Enterprises Inc 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.