How much does Heart of Maine United Way give?

Heart of Maine United Way reported 37 itemized grants totaling $863,438, out of $1,216,212 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Heart of Maine United Way fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Human Services (23%), Education (13%).

Who are Heart of Maine United Way's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shaw House ($624k), Good Samaritan Agency ($559k), Eastern Area Agency on Aging ($536k).

Does Heart of Maine United Way fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Heart of Maine United Way?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, John T Gorman Foundation, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation.

Where is Heart of Maine United Way based?

Heart of Maine United Way is based in ME.

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Maine · Public charity

Heart of Maine United Way

Since 1937, HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY (homeuw) has been mobilizing the caring power of people and communities throughout hancock, penobscot, piscataquis, somerset, waldo, and washington counties to provide essential services and identify solutions aimed at creating lasting changes to the root causes of the community's most pressing…

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 37
Itemized grants FY2025: 36
Organizations funded FY2024: 8%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $863k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $17,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $74,761
Organizations funded a year: 29 to 40; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $7.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Heart of Maine United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationEmploymentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	36	$833k	0%
FY2024	36	$874k	8%
FY2023	40	$953k	30%
FY2022	29	$841k	10%
FY2021	31	$862k	6%
FY2020	40	$1.3M	43%
FY2019	34	$895k	15%
FY2018	29	$814k	34%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.4MHuman Services$1.9MEducation$1.1MHousing & Shelter$556kYouth Development$507kPhilanthropy$344kFood & Nutrition$235kCrime & Legal$58kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Shaw House	$623,973	7	11%
Good Samaritan Agency	$558,512	8	13%
Eastern Area Agency on Aging	$536,159	9	3%
Penquis Cap Inc	$403,663	9	0%
Bangor Young Men's Christian Association	$399,082	7	1%
211 Maine Inc	$358,312	8	5%
Health Equity Alliance	$331,315	8	4%
Partners for Peace	$283,704	8	3%
United Way Inc	$268,496	7	1%
Penobscot Community Health Center	$229,176	6	0%

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All grantees of Heart of Maine United Way by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Shaw House	$623,973	7	11%
Good Samaritan Agency	$558,512	8	13%
Eastern Area Agency on Aging	$536,159	9	3%
Penquis Cap Inc	$403,663	9	0%
Bangor Young Men's Christian Association	$399,082	7	1%
211 Maine Inc	$358,312	8	5%
Health Equity Alliance	$331,315	8	4%
Partners for Peace	$283,704	8	3%
United Way Inc	$268,496	7	1%
Penobscot Community Health Center	$229,176	6	0%
The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter	$222,111	7	4%
Healthy Acadia	$222,065	8	1%
United Way of Aroostook	$212,634	7	6%
Habitat for Humanity of Grtr Bangor	$195,774	6	9%
Literacy Volunteers of Bangor	$182,750	9	13%
Cobscook Community Learning Center	$171,462	6	3%
Community Care	$168,101	3	1%
Wellspring Inc	$165,856	4	1%
Bangor Area Recovery Network Inc	$141,248	4	9%
Sunrise Opportunities	$123,365	4	1%
Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness	$120,135	3	n/a
New Hope for Women Inc	$99,089	8	1%
Ohi	$93,588	8	0%
Independence Advocates of Maine Inc	$86,517	6	0%
Spectrum Generations	$86,169	8	0%
Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry	$78,833	3	4%
Healthy Peninsula	$73,237	6	5%
Bangor Housing Authority	$72,786	3	n/a
United Way of York County	$69,473	1	4%
United Cerebral Palsy of Northeastern Maine	$68,031	6	0%
Good Shepherd Food Bank	$63,276	5	0%
United Way of Mid Coast Maine Inc	$61,199	3	2%
Washington Hancock Community Agency	$59,357	3	0%
Maine Youth Alliance	$58,807	5	6%
Food and Medicine - Jobs With Justice Education Fund	$57,369	3	6%
United Way of Mid-Maine	$56,114	3	8%
Maine Mental Health Connections Inc	$55,921	3	4%
Downeast Community Partners Inc	$54,378	3	0%
United Way of Androscoggin County Inc	$53,449	1	4%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine	$52,019	6	2%
Biddeford Food Pantry	$49,645	4	17%
The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson	$47,726	1	35%
United Way of Kennebec Valley	$45,618	3	1%
Christine B Foundation Inc	$41,787	3	6%
University of Maine System Inc	$40,205	3	n/a
The Next Step Domestic Violence Project	$40,099	3	2%
Boys & Girls Club of Bangor	$33,711	3	1%
Legal Services for Maine Elders Inc	$33,015	4	0%
Community Health Charities of Maine	$32,388	4	n/a
Amicus	$29,831	2	0%
Bucksport Area Child Care Center	$29,710	3	4%
Dover Foxcroft Area Food Cupboard	$27,944	3	n/a
Family Violence Project	$25,877	3	0%
Catholic Charities Maine	$24,897	3	0%
Amicus	$24,545	1	n/a
St Andre Home Inc	$24,394	3	2%
Maine Highlands Senior Center	$20,500	2	13%
Skills Inc	$18,407	2	0%
Chc Creating Healthier Communities	$17,699	2	0%
Kennebec Mental Health Associates	$16,742	2	0%
Old Town-Orono YMCA Foundation	$16,042	1	10%
Good Will Home Association	$15,857	2	0%
Piscataquis Regional Food Center	$15,378	2	5%
VNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice	$13,842	2	0%
Common Unity Place	$13,750	2	n/a
The Salvation Army	$13,500	1	n/a
United Way of Tri Vally Area	$12,401	1	2%
Broadreach Family & Community Services	$12,032	1	0%
Maine Share	$11,181	2	n/a
Charlotte White Center	$11,155	2	0%
First Step Pregnancy Resource Center	$10,859	2	2%
Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County	$10,000	1	9%
First United Methodist Church	$8,823	1	n/a
Union Street Brick Church	$7,900	1	n/a
Granite United Way	$7,463	1	0%
Parents Are Teachers Too	$6,850	1	n/a
Waldo Community Action Partners	$6,500	1	0%
Kennebec Valley Community Action Program	$6,250	1	0%
Town of Dexter	$6,000	1	n/a
First Congregational Church of Ellsworth UCC	$5,256	1	n/a
St Joseph Healthcare Foundation	$5,000	1	0%

Heart of Maine United Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 67.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Foundation IncME87.9× affinity53 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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Heart of Maine United Way

How much does Heart of Maine United Way give?: Heart of Maine United Way reported 37 itemized grants totaling $863,438, out of $1,216,212 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Heart of Maine United Way fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Human Services (23%), Education (13%).
Who are Heart of Maine United Way's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shaw House ($624k), Good Samaritan Agency ($559k), Eastern Area Agency on Aging ($536k).
Does Heart of Maine United Way fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Heart of Maine United Way?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, John T Gorman Foundation, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation.
Where is Heart of Maine United Way based?: Heart of Maine United Way is based in ME.