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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, moving us closer to a state where every student in every commnunity has access to the nutritious meals they need wherever they live, learn, and play.
$2.0M
Granted FY2025
36
Grants
1
Communities
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL’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
2019
hungrysummer
2020
increase nutritionsmultiple increase
2021
increase nutritionsmultiple increase
2022
increase nutritionsmultiple increase
2023
increase nutritionsnutritions multiplemultiple increase
2025
multiple increase
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 36 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $270k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ALFOND YOUTH CENTER$15,500
- KITTERY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$15,436
- RSU 20$15,250
- AUGUSTA TEEN CENTER$15,000
- SOUTH PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS$15,000
- YWCA CENTRAL MAINE$15,000
- MSAD 27$14,500
- RSU 03$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
- CUMBERLAND COUNTY FOOD SEVURITY COUNCIL$10,000
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KENNEBEC VALLEY$10,000
02The need
04
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:
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 75 repeat orgs$509k to everyone else
75 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
75
47
Total granted
$2.7M
$447k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+63%
+100%
Still filing today
29%
11%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationHealthCrime & LegalOther
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
- BYBATH YMCA5× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +88%
- CKCAPITAL KIDS DBA AUGUSTA TEEN CENTER4× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +278%
- MCMEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT INC7× · 2018–2025 · $77k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- HCHEALTHY COMMUNITIES OF THE CAPITAL AREAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +100%
- MMAINEHEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +167%
- 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.
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.
1
Mt Desert Island Ymca
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.
Human Services
2
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
3
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
4
Children's Center Early Intervention &
The Children's Center, as a nonprofit organization, provides quality, family-focused services for children; specializes in meeting the developmental needs of children with special needs by offering programs which encourage individual…
Health
5
Maine Climate Action Now
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate and ecological emergency. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate…
Environment
6
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
7
Apex Youth Connection
Apex offers Southern Maine youth a safe, welcoming space to spend their time after school and during the summer. Our diverse, free-to-access programs focus on hands-on skill building, outdoor exploration, community engagement, positive…
Youth Development
8
Maine & Company
Economic development in Maine.
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9
Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities
The Hospital is a not-for-profit entity established to provide health care services through its acute care facility and physician practices.
Health
10
Northern Maine Medical Center
Acute care & long term care hospital and mental health services facility.
Health
11
Waypoint Maine Inc
Assist developmentally disabled persons.
Human Services
12
Waterville Area Ymca
To inspire and enable all young people and their families to realize their full potential.
Human Services
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 MaineHealth. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 6% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/129
the rest of the field
8%
572/7,194
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.
05the grantee network
30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
27/30
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,216,996Youth Development$290,797Human Services$278,035Food & Nutrition$157,801Health$107,450Education$92,582Crime & Legal$52,030International$30,000
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 BATH YMCA ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL KIDS DBA AUGUSTA TEEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HALAL SCHOOL MEALS NETWORKFOOD FOR ALL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COUNTY FOOD SEVURITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR MAINE GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE DBA THE GAME LOFT ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MAINE ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND MANO EN MANO ↗
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 IncME71× affinity51 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 · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Share Our Strength · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · United Way Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Onion Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Catholic Charities Maine · 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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: PENOBSCOT BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 260250671 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 PENOBSCOT BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Full Plates Full Potential?
Find your warmest path to Full Plates Full Potential 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