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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.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Food & Nutrition$14MEducation$137kHealth$132kHuman Services$115kHousing & Shelter$68kReligion$68kPublic Benefit$67kArts & Culture$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

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
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

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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.

area typical 11%Adopt-A-Block of Aroostook: $30k → 15%Adopt-A-Block of Aroostook: $25k → 15%Adopt-A-Block of Aroostook: $16k → 15%AIO Food and Energy Assistance: $31k → 11%AIO Food and Energy Assistance: $26k → 11%Church Community Outreach Services: $50k → 9%Church Community Outreach Services Inc: $18k → 9%Church Community Outreach Services Inc: $16k → 9%Somali Bantu Community Association: $58k → 13%Somali Bantu Community: $42k → 13%Biddeford Food Pantry: $17k → 9%Maine Highlands Senior Center DBA Central Hall Commons: $17k → 15%Biddeford Food Pantry: $14k → 9%Somali Bantu Community of Lewiston Maine: $28k → 13%Catholic Charities Maine (Caribou Charter): $176k → 15%AK Health and Social Services: $25k → 13%Bangor YMCA: $50k → 15%Brewer Area Food Pantry-OHI: $50k → 15%Catholic Charities Maine (Caribou Charter): $20k → 15%Downeast Community Partners: $32k → 16%AK Health and Social Services: $20k → 13%Freeport Community Services: $53k → 7%Somali Bantu Community Association: $15k → 13%Freeport Community Services Inc: $29k → 7%YWCA Central Maine: $15k → 13%Seniors Plus MOW - Lewiston: $15k → 13%Seniors Plus: $15k → 13%York Community Services Association: $34k → 9%Brewer Area Food Pantry - OHI: $26k → 15%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $15k → 15%Preble Street: $500k → 7%Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition: $360k → 7%Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition: $242k → 7%Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition: $150k → 7%Presente Maine: $135k → 7%Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition: $126k → 7%Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition: $99k → 7%Gateway Community Services Inc: $92k → 7%Presente Maine: $63k → 7%Presente Maine: $50k → 7%Food For All Services: $44k → 7%Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition: $44k → 7%Gateway Community Services Maine: $40k → 7%The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $30k → 7%Gateway Community Services Maine: $25k → 7%Preble Street: $20k → 7%The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $20k → 7%Preble Street: $18k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 115 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
187

Total granted

$11M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+13%

Still filing today

65%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $576k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • MI
    MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +168%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities Maine
    6× · 2020–2025 · $624k · revenue +12%
  • PS
    PREBLE STREET
    4× · 2020–2025 · $538k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SC
    Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop
    one grant, 2024 · $120k · 73% of their budget
  • GE
    Gorham Ecumenical Food Pantry
    one grant, 2022 · $64k · revenue -24%
  • CC
    CENTERPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCH WATERVILLE
    one grant, 2023 · $60k

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
Penobscot Community Health Center

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…

Health
2
Maine Needs Inc

We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…

Human Services
3
Heart of Maine Resource Center

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

Food & Nutrition
4
Westbrook Food Pantry

The westbrook community food & resource center is an all volunteer non-profit organization providing free supplemental food to westbrook, maine residents on

Food & Nutrition
5
Fork Food Lab

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,…

Environment
6
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
7
Our Neighbors' Table Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Joans Pantry

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

Food & Nutrition
9
Rural Community Action Ministry

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.

Human Services
10
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…

Food & Nutrition
11
Mainely Teeth Llc

Providing Dental services to low-income individuals who are uninsured,underinsured, or have other significant financial barriers to accessing care.

12
Maine Council on Aging

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…

Unclassified

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing ProvidersNorthern Maine Health & Soc…Sexual Assault and Crisis S…Maine Civic Engagement Orga…Maine Education Support Org…Private Recreational ClubsIndependent Schools MaineHistoric Preservation Museu…Regional Healthcare SystemsEmergency Ambulance ServicesFraternal Service Organizat…Disability Services & Suppo…Environmental Education & C…Youth Sports LeaguesYouth Development Centers
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%12%<5yr12%15%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr18%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%16%<5yr12%27%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr16%15%35–55yr18%7%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%9/246
the rest of the field
9%
646/6,979

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
158/165
Grantees still filing
109/165
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $1,021,290 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITIONCatholic Charities Maine — $623,839 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities MainePREBLE STREET — $537,730 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREETPresente Maine — $258,000 · Human ServicesPresente MaineIMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER OF MAINE — $256,540 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER OF MAINEGateway Community Services Maine — $156,130 · Human ServicesSomali Bantu Community Association of Maine — $154,000 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES — $139,130 · Human Services+20 more — $1,011,386 · Human Services+20 moreFootprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry — $303,316 · OtherFootprints Inc Footprints Food Pantr…Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program — $234,480 · OtherMid Coast Hunger Prevention ProgramMaine Seacoast Mission — $175,010 · Other+107 more — $3,675,885 · Other+107 morePISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CENTER — $523,588 · Food & NutritionPISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CEN…Cumberland County Food Security Council — $352,000 · Food & NutritionCumberland County Food Securi…WINSLOW COMMUNITY CUPBOARD — $332,578 · Food & NutritionWINSLOW COMMUNITY CUPBOARDHARRISON FOOD BANK — $253,827 · Food & NutritionHARRISON FOOD BANKLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY — $221,744 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRYCULTIVATING COMMUNITY — $148,840 · Food & NutritionBurlington Food Pantry — $140,000 · Food & NutritionYouth Full Maine — $136,150 · Food & NutritionTrinity Jubilee Center Inc — $132,310 · Food & NutritionSolon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop — $120,000 · Food & Nutrition+26 more — $1,155,448 · Food & Nutrition+26 moreCHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 · HealthMaineHealth — $79,040 · HealthFISH RIVER RURAL HEALTH — $49,498 · HealthEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen — $47,300 · HealthSt Mary's Health System — $36,070 · HealthNEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE — $27,500 · HealthCOMMONSPACE — $25,000 · HealthWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC — $23,000 · HealthCommunity Clinical Services Inc — $20,510 · HealthSacopee Valley Health Center — $20,000 · HealthSt Mary's Regional Medical Center — $17,875 · Health+1 more — $12,500 · HealthMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN — $350,000 · EnvironmentBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc — $64,000 · EnvironmentIn Her Presence — $119,500 · Community ImprovementYork County Shelter Programs Inc — $37,730 · Community ImprovementMaine Association for New Americans — $30,000 · Community ImprovementTHE THIRD PLACE INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementLUBEC COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC — $21,230 · Community ImprovementLAND IN COMMON INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementCREATIVE PORTLAND CORPORATION — $15,400 · Community ImprovementWHYHUNGER INC — $133,000 · Arts & CultureAzerbaijan Society of Maine — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT — $32,500 · Arts & CultureWABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER — $17,500 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$4,158,045Other$4,388,691Food & Nutrition$3,516,485Health$448,293Environment$414,000Community Improvement$273,860Arts & Culture$263,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $1,021,290 over 6y, 14% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine — $623,839 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $537,730 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CENTER — $523,588 over 7y, 73% of budgetCumberland County Food Security Council — $352,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetWINSLOW COMMUNITY CUPBOARD — $332,578 over 3y, 42% of budgetFootprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry — $303,316 over 4y, 39% of budgetPresente Maine — $258,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetHARRISON FOOD BANK — $253,827 over 4y, 47% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program — $234,480 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY — $221,744 over 4y, 31% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission — $175,010 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGateway Community Services Maine — $156,130 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetSomali Bantu Community Association of Maine — $154,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCULTIVATING COMMUNITY — $148,840 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetBurlington Food Pantry — $140,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES — $139,130 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetYouth Full Maine — $136,150 over 4y, 20% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $133,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc — $132,310 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetSolon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop — $120,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetIn Her Presence — $119,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano — $118,400 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLocker Project — $115,960 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetBelfast Soup Kitchen — $91,230 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetCHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetOHI — $86,416 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHURCH COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES INC — $83,950 over 3y, 11% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES — $81,630 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetNEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATION — $80,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetMaineHealth — $79,040 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BORDER TOWNS — $78,800 over 4y, 28% of budgetBATH AREA FOOD BANK — $78,430 over 3y, 12% of budgetWayside Food Programs — $71,230 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetADOPT-A-BLOCK OF AROOSTOOK — $70,830 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetBAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY — $68,380 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetAUGUSTA FOOD BANK — $64,487 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc — $64,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetGorham Ecumenical Food Pantry — $64,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAzerbaijan Society of Maine — $60,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetSUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS RELIEF ORGANIZATION — $59,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE — $59,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetAREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH — $56,880 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $52,913 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFISH RIVER RURAL HEALTH — $49,498 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen — $47,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Foundation IncME145.2× affinity142 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 316 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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