· Public charity
Eastern Maine Development Corporation
Provide educational and other economic development services to governments and businesses in eastern Maine
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maine Multicultural Center | $98,750 |
| Upstart Maine Inc | $98,750 |
| Four Directions Development Corp | $60,000 |
| NMDC | $50,000 |
| Dreamer Food | $25,000 |
| Horn Run Brewing | $25,000 |
| Cardtastic Collectibles and More | $25,000 |
| The Whistling Buoy | $25,000 |
| Frugal Mainer LLC | $25,000 |
| Highlands Lodging | $25,000 |
| Bootleg Jerky | $25,000 |
| Red Rabbit Bazaar | $25,000 |
| Wallace Interiors | $25,000 |
| The Club Marina and Bar | $25,000 |
| The Village Kitchen | $25,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +128% since the first grant, against +107% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 62 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL5× · 2018–2022 · $489k · revenue +128%- FDFour Directions Development Corporation3× · 2021–2024 · $196k · revenue +186%
- UMUPSTART MAINE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $149k · revenue -9% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCommunity Concepts Incone grant, 2022 · $558k · revenue -51%
- AWAcadia Wilderness Lodgeone grant, 2023 · $50k
- PBPenobscot Bay Weddings & Eventsone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
Provide educational and other economic development services to governments and businesses in eastern Maine
To assist new businesses to move to Pittsfield, to support expanding existing businesses, and to promote economic development and jobs for the betterment of Pittsfield, Maine.
To create high quality jobs for maine through best practice incubations services that systematically assist new businesses with intellectual property and business plan needs, r&d activities, early stage financing and product…
The mission of the Maine Development Foundation is to foster sustainable, long-term economic growth for Maine. Its programs stimulate new ideas, help develop Maine's leaders, and provide common ground for solving problems and advancing…
The Growth Council was established to foster a robust regional economy in a collaborative manner in a mult-town community.
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
Supporting Local Businesses and Economic Diversification and Development on Vinalhaven
Maine MEP's mission is to facilitate economic development by providing the necessary services to Maine's small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises (SMES) to enable them to be resilient and thrive in the ever-changing market…
Promoting economic development and generating jobs in Piscataquis County, Maine
To promote the expansion of Maine's economy through increased international trade in goods and services, and related activities.
To create an entrepreneurial and innovative environment, nurturing business to launch, grow, and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moosehead Lake Region Economic Development Corp and the most unlike its peers is Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 70 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.
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 Technology Institute · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Maine International Trade Center · John T Gorman 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 Eastern Maine Development Corporation 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.
- Cooperative Development Institute Inc — 58% of income from government
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.