How much did FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

investment biopharmainvestment agricultureinvestment knowledgeknowledge worker

2019

developinvestment agriculture

2020

communications strategystrategy growgrow aquacultureaquaculture industryaward accelerateaccelerate growthbiopharma sciences

2021

investment agriculture

2022

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2023

foodoysterinvest businessoceanfarmsenterprisesattract

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $28k
$50k–250k3 grants · $403k
$250k+3 grants · $1.5M

$215,870

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

MAINE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS$762,947
EDUCATE MAINE$375,846
COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC$351,121
MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION$215,870
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$123,848
NEW ENGLAND OCEAN CLUSTER LLC$63,768
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC$28,180

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 7%. 35% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 14 repeat orgs$354k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$354k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%

+755%

Still filing today

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

MC
MAINE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS
8× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +412% · 84% of their budget
CE
COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +208%
EM
EDUCATE MAINE
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +229%

Funded once

AS
AVIGO SOLUTIONS
one grant, 2020 · $108k
LW
LIVE WORK MAINEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +755%
LC
LINKEDIN CORPORATION
one grant, 2018 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Maine Coast Fishermens Assn

We work to ensure that fishermen have a community infrastructure and the environmental resources to maintain maines coastal cultural identity and sustain a vibrant working waterfront for each generation of maine fishermen through…

Environment

Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners

The maine organic farmers and gardeners association is transforming our food system by supporting farmers, empowering people to feed their communities and advocating for an organic future.

Food & Nutrition

Waypoint Maine Inc

Assist developmentally disabled persons.

Human Services

Eastern Maine Medical Center

Eastern Maine Medical Center d/b/a Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center strives to provide exceptional primary and specialty healthcare with a passionate pursuit of excellence in patient safety, clinical quality, and service. Our…

Health

MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health

Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation

Maine Public is Maine's premier, independent media resource serving the entirety of Maine, dedicated to creating exceptional opportunities for the communities it serves to engage with critical issues, compelling stories, and quality…

Arts & Culture

Northern Maine Medical Center

Acute care & long term care hospital and mental health services facility.

Health

University of New England

The University of New England prepares students to thrive in a rapidly-changing world and, in so doing, to improve the health of people, communities, and our planet.

Education

Sportsman's Alliance of Maine

To promote field sports and conservation through multiple mediums and events.

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Central Maine Medical Center

Cmmc strives to provide exceptional healthcare services. the hospital depends on the expertise of its caregivers in addition to the commitment and compassion they provide.

Health

University of Maine Foundation

Fundraising and endowment management for the benefit of the University of Maine

Education

Western New England University

See Schedule O Statement for Part III, Line 1 that also applies to Part I, Line 1

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Enterprises Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northeastern University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

9/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,727,269Housing & Shelter$2,203,743Education$1,774,000Food & Nutrition$1,593,915Animals$1,287,009Community Improvement$194,541

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Maine Technology InstituteME17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Technology Institute

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 organisation FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MAINE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 010510641 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MAINE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 84% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy?

Find your warmest path to Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy 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.

FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy?

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FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy?

More from the funding graph