· 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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $863,438 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,216,212 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $352,774 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 $10k12 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $540k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $236k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BANGOR YMCA | $74,761 |
| COMMUNITY CARE | $60,127 |
| PENQUIS | $50,792 |
| 211 MAINE - UNITED WAY OF SO ME | $50,059 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY | $46,190 |
| PARTNERS FOR PEACE | $43,569 |
| BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER | $42,392 |
| WABANAKI PUBLIC HEALTH & WELLNESS | $40,096 |
| PENOBSCOT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $40,000 |
| EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING | $39,528 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $32,615 |
| HEALTHY ACADIA | $30,067 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $25,320 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BANGOR | $24,255 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +22% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SHSHAW HOUSE7× · 2017–2023 · $624k · revenue +28%
- EAEastern Area Agency on Aging9× · 2017–2025 · $536k · revenue +104%
- PCPENQUIS CAP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $404k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- UWUnited Way of York Countyone grant, 2020 · $69k
- UWUNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $53k · revenue -14%
- TEThe Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Paysonone grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue -79% · 35% of their budget
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.
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…
Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.
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.
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.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
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…
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.
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:…
Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.
To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Mid Coast Maine Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Eunice Frye Home Foundation Co Thomas M Pierce Hm Payson. 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 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.
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.
69 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. 69 of the 82 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
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 SHAW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Eastern Area Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds PENQUIS CAP INC ↗
- Who funds BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 211 Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds Health Equity Alliance ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds Penobscot Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds THE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ACADIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRTR BANGOR ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Bangor ↗
- Who funds Cobscook Community Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Community Care ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds Bangor Area Recovery Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Sunrise Opportunities ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds OHI ↗
- Who funds Independence Advocates of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds United Way of York County ↗
- Who funds United Cerebral Palsy of Northeastern Maine ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID COAST MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HANCOCK COMMUNITY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FOOD AND MEDICINE - JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID-MAINE ↗
- Who funds MAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC ↗
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 · 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
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 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.
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.