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Cooking for Community
Cooking for Community is a Portland, Maine-based grassroots organization formed as a Co-Vid 19 crisis response organization.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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.
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.
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 quality affordable housing
Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.
The organization advocates for the creation and preservation of affordable housing so all people in maine have a place to call home.
Provide temporary housing and counseling services for the homeless of northern maine
We provide compassionate care and services to empower individuals experiencing substance use disorders, mental illnesses and homelessness to attain an enhanced quality of life regardless of ability to pay.
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
The agency promotes health and wellness of the citizens of androscoggin county by providing programs supporting recovery from combined challenges of physical, mental and substance abuse illnesses.
Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…
Our purpose is to work with people to meet their needs for safe and adequate shelter, clothing, food and basic well-being in a manner that maintains or improves their self worth and dignity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonspace and the most unlike its peers is Area Interfaith Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson · The Hudson Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization
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.
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How do I get to Cooking for Community?
Find your warmest path to Cooking for Community 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.