· Public charity
Good Shepherd Food Bank
The mission of Good Shepherd Food Bank is to eliminate hunger in Maine by improving access to nutritious and culturally relevant food for people in need, building strong community partnerships, and mobilizing the public in the fight to end hunger.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $1,284,510 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,234,716 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,950,206 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 $10k9 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $251k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $626k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maine Coast Fishermen's Association | $350,000 |
| Catholic Charities Maine (Caribou Charter) | $176,339 |
| Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition | $150,000 |
| Bread of Life Food Pantry | $85,000 |
| Somali Bantu Community Association | $57,500 |
| Cultivating Community | $57,500 |
| Footprints Inc | $50,000 |
| Presente Maine | $50,000 |
| Food For All Services | $44,000 |
| What's For Suppa Food Pantry | $33,425 |
| Wytopitlock Food Pantry | $32,156 |
| Brewer Area Food Pantry - OHI | $25,754 |
| Lincoln Regional Food Cupboard | $25,200 |
| Trinity Jubilee Center | $25,000 |
| Town of Sumner (fbo Sumner Food Bank) | $18,342 |
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, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 101 since wound down; 13 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $576k 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
- MIMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +168%
- CCCatholic Charities Maine6× · 2020–2025 · $624k · revenue +12%
- PSPREBLE STREET4× · 2020–2025 · $538k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SCSolon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shopone grant, 2024 · $120k · 73% of their budget
- GEGorham Ecumenical Food Pantryone grant, 2022 · $64k · revenue -24%
- CCCENTERPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCH WATERVILLEone grant, 2023 · $60k
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.
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Heart of Maine Resource Center was founded in 2018 to bridge persistan gaps in access to food and supportive services for neighbors in the greater Dexter ME area. Transending the current community barrie
The westbrook community food & resource center is an all volunteer non-profit organization providing free supplemental food to westbrook, maine residents on
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
The Organization is committed to establishing a community that provides for the whole person with nourishing food, kindness and dignity. The Organization provides food directly to those experiencing food insecurity while also directing the…
Joans Pantry provides free food to those in need in our community We receive food from USDA and the NH Food Bank and also purchase food to supplement what we get for free
Our purpose is to work with people to meet their needs for safe and adequate shelter, clothing, food and basic well-being in a manner that maintains or improves their self worth and dignity.
The mission of Good Shepherd Food Bank is to eliminate hunger in Maine by improving access to nutritious and culturally relevant food for people in need, building strong community partnerships, and mobilizing the public in the fight to end…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services and the most unlike its peers is Marion F Morrison Fbo Thompson Free Libr C/O First National Bank. 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 20 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
165 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. 165 of the 316 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds PISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cumberland County Food Security Council ↗
- Who funds MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN ↗
- Who funds WINSLOW COMMUNITY CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds Footprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds Presente Maine ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds HARRISON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds Gateway Community Services Maine ↗
- Who funds Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Burlington Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Youth Full Maine ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity Jubilee Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop ↗
- Who funds In Her Presence ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds Locker Project ↗
- Who funds Belfast Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHI ↗
- Who funds Resource Center of Candor Inc ↗
- Who funds CHURCH COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BORDER TOWNS ↗
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 · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Onion Foundation · United Way Inc · Sam L Cohen 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 Good Shepherd Food Bank 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.