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· Public charity
COOKING FOR COMMUNITY
Cooking for Community is a Portland, Maine-based grassroots organization formed as a Co-Vid 19 crisis response organization.
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01What you fund
01FY2023
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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$245k
Total assets
02The need
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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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Southern Maine Affordable Housing
Affordable housing development and management
Housing & Shelter
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Maine Affordable Housing Coalition
The organization advocates for the creation and preservation of affordable housing so all people in maine have a place to call home.
Civil Rights
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Community Housing of Maine Inc
The organization develops and provides housing for low income and disadvantaged individuals.
Housing & Shelter
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Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc
Ending homelessness in Maine, one person, one family, and one child at a time.
Housing & Shelter
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Welcome Home Coalition
Welcome Home is an alliance in the Portland Metropolitan Region that uses its collective resources to build a movement for housing justice. We believe that everyone deserves to have an affordable and safe home in a neighborhood of their…
Community Improvement
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Lowell Area Housing Inc
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Waypoint Maine Inc
Assist developmentally disabled persons.
Human Services
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Homeless Services of Aroostook Inc
Provide temporary housing and counseling services for the homeless of northern maine
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Portland Housing Development Corporation
Construction of low income housing, rent supplemants and support services.
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Hancock County Habitat for Humanity
Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
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Boothbay Regional Development Corp
Develop affordable housing in the boothbay maine region
Housing & Shelter
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Affordable Housing Accreditation Board
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeworthy 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.
Maine Community Foundation IncME25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community · United Way Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Cooking for Community?
Find your warmest path to Cooking for Community through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines