How much did HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY grant in FY2024?

HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY reported 37 grants totaling $1,260,181 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY based?

HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY is based in ME.

HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· 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…

$1.3M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$75k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY’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

education incomeincome health

2020

education health

2021

education health

2022

education health

2023

education health

2024

education health

2025

education health

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $97k
$10k–50k21 grants · $600k
$50k–250k3 grants · $192k

$15,526

Median grant

States reached

$5.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

BANGOR YMCA$74,863
COMMUNITY CARE$60,570
211 MAINE - UNITED WAY OF SO ME$56,245
GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY$48,485
PENQUIS$47,718
BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER$40,624
WABANAKI PUBLIC HEALTH & WELLNESS$40,039
PENOBSCOT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$40,000
PARTNERS FOR PEACE$39,901
EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING$38,411
HEALTH EQUITY ALLIANCE$37,500
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MAINE$34,723
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$30,883
HEALTHY ACADIA$30,212
LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY$27,049

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.3M · 58 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.3M

$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+24%

Still filing today

83%

60%

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 ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

SH
SHAW HOUSE CO COMMUNITY CARE
6× · 2018–2023 · $525k · revenue +29%
EA
EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING
7× · 2018–2024 · $407k · revenue +95%
MH
MAINE HEALTH EQUITY ALLIANCE
7× · 2018–2024 · $322k · revenue +67%

Funded once

UW
UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY
one grant, 2020 · $69k
UW
UNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN
one grant, 2020 · $53k · revenue +2%
TS
THE SALVATION ARMY
one grant, 2020 · $14k

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.

MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health

Waypoint Maine Inc

Assist developmentally disabled persons.

Human Services

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

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

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

Maine Veterans Home

Maine Veterans' Homes provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation, long term care, memory care, pharmacy support and consultation, and assisted living services for veterans and eligible family members at six facilities across Maine.

Health

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

Northern Maine Medical Center

Acute care & long term care hospital and mental health services facility.

Health

Aroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc

To assist eldery citizens in northern Maine.

Human Services

Sebasticook Valley Health

Sebasticook Valley Health d/b/a Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital is a critical access hospital whose mission is to be the regional leader in meeting the health needs of our communities, providing quality care, always treating…

Health

Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health

Hancock County Habitat for Humanity

Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Androscoggin County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sunrise Opportunities. 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

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 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/76

the rest of the field

381/4,901

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

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/65

Grantees still filing

50/65

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,781,010Human Services$1,933,272Health$1,049,195Education$317,711Philanthropy$306,614Food & Nutrition$132,167Youth Development$50,786

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.

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 IncME92.6× affinity56 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 · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community · Good Shepherd Food Bank · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson

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 HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue contracted 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 010211507 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 GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% 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 Heart of Maine United Way?

Find your warmest path to Heart of Maine United Way 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.

HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Heart of Maine United Way?

More from the funding graph

HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Heart of Maine United Way?

More from the funding graph