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Full Plates Full Potential
We are ending childhood hunger by helping schools and nonprofits maximize participation in usda child nutrition programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $367,045 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,960,180 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,593,135 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALFOND YOUTH CENTER | $15,500 |
| KITTERY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $15,436 |
| RSU 20 | $15,250 |
| SOUTH PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| AUGUSTA TEEN CENTER | $15,000 |
| YWCA CENTRAL MAINE | $15,000 |
| RSU 03 | $14,500 |
| MSAD 27 | $14,500 |
| AUBURN-LEWISTON YMCA | $14,305 |
| DEER ISLE-STONINGTON CSD | $12,734 |
| BANGOR REGION YMCA | $11,577 |
| WESTBROOK PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,500 |
| BATH YMCA | $10,500 |
| MEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KENNEBEC VALLEY | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $392k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
80 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- BABATH AREA FAMILY YMCA6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +129%
- AYALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +138%
- ATAUGUSTA TEEN CENTER OF THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB4× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +278%
Funded once
- HCHealthy Communities of the Capital Areagraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +55%
- MMaineHealthone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +12%
- EREAST RANGE II SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $24k
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.
Our mission is to provide quality, affordable early childhood education that fosters individual success and a lifelong love of learning.
The mission of the Mount Desert Island YMCA is to develop community, character, personal growth and wellness in spirit, mind, and body for the greater Mount Desert Island community.
It is the mission of the Waldo County YMCA to promote the physical, mental, social and spiritual development of Waldo County children and Families.
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
Youth and family social services
It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.
To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.
To coordinate, promote, and support the Jewish philanthropic, benevolent, educational, and communal activities in Southern Maine. To foster, develop, and encourage agencies as will best promote the welfare of this community.
The YMCA of Medford is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. Our mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that…
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…
Role models (bigs) in one-to-one friendships in seven counties throughout Eastern, Coastal, and Central Maine. They partner with parents, in conjunction with over 30 schools and hundreds of volunteers and generous partners in our community…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine and the most unlike its peers is Food for All Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 134 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.
- Who funds FOOD FOR ALL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Medical Care Development Inc ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA TEEN CENTER OF THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Cumberland County Food Security Council ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds YWCA Central Maine ↗
- Who funds Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE ↗
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 · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Melmac Education Foundation · Onion Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Bangor Savings Bank 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 Full Plates Full Potential 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.
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.
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