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Coastal Enterprises Inc

Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities with low income in maine and rural regions.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$213k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$6.4MEducation$1.0MCommunity Improvement$304kReligion$80kHealth$68kEnvironment$38kPublic Benefit$38k
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $1,785,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,229,628 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $443,728 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 $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $556k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$167M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$212,500
COMMUNITY CONCEPTS INC$212,500
WINDHAM SCHOOL AGE CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC$150,000
BETH BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL FUND FOR CHILDREN$150,000
INDIAN TOWNSHIP TRIBAL GOVERNMENT$87,500
GRACES BUSY BEES LEARNING CENTER LLC$80,000
WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION$68,000
KIDSPACE INCLUSIVE CHILDCARE$68,000
RIVERSIDE ACADEMY$68,000
MAINE MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HOUSE$62,500
PONY CLUB LEARNING CENTER$60,000
HEALTHY KIDS EXTENDED DAY PROGRAM INC$45,900
BLUEPRINTS LEARNING CENTER INC$44,000
THE BAY SCHOOL$37,500
YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH$37,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Natural Capital Investment Fund: $266k → 9%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $213k → 9%WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $68k → 14%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $38k → 9%OXFORD SCHOOL AGE CHILD CARE: $8k → 13%WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $12k → 14%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $46k → 11%CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $38k → 9%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $8k → 11%COMMUNITY MONTESSORI OF GREATER PORTLAND: $41k → 7%THE COMMUNITY MONTESSORI OF GREATER PORTLAND: $7k → 7%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $213k → 12%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $38k → 12%WINDHAM SCHOOL AGE CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $150k → 7%WINDHAM SCHOOL AGE CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $38k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
NY
PA
CA
UT
NE
WV
TN
NC
LA
GA
FL
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 24 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
111

Total granted

$3.8M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

54%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $797k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • ST
    SEEDLINGS TO SUNFLOWERS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +50%
  • BA
    BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +13%
  • CC
    Community Concepts Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • PC
    PARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $266k · revenue +538%
  • SC
    SUMMIT COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • CO
    CIRCLE OF FRIENDS DAYCARE
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
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
Kids Corner Inc

To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.

Human Services
2
Belfast Area Child Care Services Inc

Our mission is to provide quality, affordable early childhood education that fosters individual success and a lifelong love of learning.

Human Services
3
Maine Association for the Education of Young Children

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…

Education
4
Coastal Kids Preschool

Provides an inclusive enriching learning environment for students 15 months to 7 years of age

Human Services
5
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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6
Penobscot Christian School

Penobscot Christian School exists to provide classical Christian education that cultivates life-long learners who love God, love others, and engage culture.

Education
7
Gorham Community Learning Center Inc

The learning center provides accessible, affordable and flexible childcare and preschool services for the androscoggin valley area.

—
8
The Islesboro Pre-School

The Islesboro Preschool recognizes each child as an individual with their own set of life experiences. Each child will be encouraged to explore, observe, experiment, and discover through direct, concrete interaction with the environment.…

—
9
The Camden Childrens House Montessori School

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.

Education
10
Woodstock Community Playschool Inc Dba Rainbow Playschool

Rainbow Playschool is a nonprofit organization in the foothills of Mt. Tom in Woodstock, Vermont. We provide daycare and preschool services, emphasizing play and outdoor education, to children between the ages of 6 weeks and 5 years old.…

Human Services
11
Robins Nest Children's Center

Robins Nest Childrens Center provides high-quality early care and education in a play-based setting.

Human Services
12
Bangor Childrens Home

Provision of school services

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Penobscot Bay Ymca; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 161 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
12/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUMMIT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $250,000 · OtherSEEDLINGS TO SUNFLOWERS: $250,000 · OtherCIRCLE OF FRIENDS DAYCARE: $250,000 · OtherTREE FROG LEARNING CENTER LLC: $250,000 · OtherCommunity Concepts Inc: $250,000 · Other+134 more: $6,177,030 · Other+134 morePARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC: $266,037 · Human ServicesPARTNER COMMU…KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $250,000 · Human ServicesKENNEBEC VALL…BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $250,000 · Human ServicesBATH AREA FAM…Windham School Age Childcare Assoc: $187,500 · Human ServicesWindham Schoo…WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN MAINE…PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $54,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY MONTESSORI OF GREATER PORTLAND: $47,800 · Human Services+2 more: $45,400 · Human ServicesMAINE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOUSE: $250,000 · EducationMAINE MOUN…Hand in Hand Mano en Mano: $250,000 · EducationHand in Ha…BETH BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL FUND FOR CH: $187,500 · EducationBETH BRUNS…LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER: $37,500 · EducationLITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE: $37,500 · EducationLINDA BOYLE NATURE CENTER INC: $37,500 · Education+4 more: $62,155 · Education+4 moreBOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $37,500 · ReligionGORHAM ARTS ALLIANCE: $10,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,427,030Human Services$1,181,237Education$862,155Youth Development$250,000Religion$37,500Arts & Culture$10,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC: $266,037 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSEEDLINGS TO SUNFLOWERS: $250,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMAINE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOUSE: $250,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $250,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCommunity Concepts Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY: $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $250,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetWindham School Age Childcare Assoc: $187,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetBETH BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL FUND FOR CH: $187,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetDowneast Family Young Mens Christian Association: $187,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEVEY DAY SCHOOL: $79,700 over 2y, 13% of budgetPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $54,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY MONTESSORI OF GREATER PORTLAND: $47,800 over 2y, 28% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL: $37,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER: $37,500 over 1y, 81% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SANFORD-SPRINGVALE: $37,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCentral Lincoln County Young Mens Christian Association Inc: $37,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $37,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE: $37,500 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $22,355 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHEEPSCOT VALLEY CHILDRENS HOUSE: $15,800 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKennebec Valley YMCA: $15,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED 4 CHILD CARE: $12,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetRiverside Academy Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOXFORD SCHOOL AGE CHILD CARE: $7,900 over 1y, 0.5% 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 PARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds SEEDLINGS TO SUNFLOWERS ↗
  • Who funds MAINE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds Community Concepts Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
  • Who funds Windham School Age Childcare Assoc ↗
  • Who funds BETH BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL FUND FOR CH ↗
  • Who funds Downeast Family Young Mens Christian Association ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEVEY DAY SCHOOL ↗

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…Franklin Savings Bank…YMCA Alliance of Nort…Maine Health Access F…John T Gorman Foundat…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Bangor Savings Bank F…National Council of Y…Kennebec Savings Bank…United Way IncOnion FoundationDavis Family Foundati…
Maine Community Foundation IncME31.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Coastal Enterprises Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coastal Enterprises Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 161 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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