· Public charity
Eastern Maine Development Corporation
Provide educational and other economic development services to governments and businesses in eastern Maine
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Upstart Maine Inc | $98,750 |
| Maine Multicultural Center | $98,750 |
| Four Directions Development Corp | $60,000 |
| NMDC | $50,000 |
| Cardtastic Collectibles and More | $25,000 |
| Highlands Lodging | $25,000 |
| Moosehead Lakeshore Journal | $25,000 |
| Wallace Interiors | $25,000 |
| Horn Run Brewing | $25,000 |
| The Phoenix on Water Street | $25,000 |
| Inked Beauty By Sen | $25,000 |
| The Village Kitchen | $25,000 |
| Moosabec Medical | $25,000 |
| Acadia Charter Company LLC | $25,000 |
| The Beauty Artist | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +186% since the first grant, against +107% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL5× · 2018–2022 · $489k · revenue +353%- 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 -47%
- AWAcadia Wilderness Lodgeone grant, 2023 · $50k
- PBPenobscot Bay Weddings & Eventsone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
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.
Provide educational and other economic development services to governments and businesses in eastern Maine
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To strengten local government while combining total resources to meet regional challenges beyond individual capacities and to serve as a mutual forum to identify, study, and to bring into focus regional interest.
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The Growth Council was established to foster a robust regional economy in a collaborative manner in a mult-town community.
To foster, encourage and assist in the location, settlement or resettlement of industry and recreational, agricultural,and other business enterprises in the Town of Skowhegan and in the County of Somerset.
Promoting economic development and generating jobs in Piscataquis County, Maine
To create an entrepreneurial and innovative environment, nurturing business to launch, grow, and thrive.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 70 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Maine Technology Institute · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Maine International Trade Center · John T Gorman Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eastern Maine Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eastern Maine Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cooperative Development Institute Inc: 58% of income from government
How this is measured
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