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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 FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 37 grants below total $863,438, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,216,212 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $352,774 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $540k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $236k
$17,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SPECTRUM GENERATIONS: $19k → 12%SPECTRUM GENERATIONS: $18k → 12%SPECTRUM GENERATIONS: $14k → 12%INDEPENDENCE ADVOCATES OF MAINE: $19k → 15%NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN: $17k → 11%INDEPENDENCE ADVOCATES OF MAINE: $17k → 15%NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN: $17k → 11%INDEPENDENCE ADVOCATES OF MAINE: $17k → 15%NEW HOPE MIDCOAST: $17k → 11%NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN: $14k → 11%NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN: $12k → 11%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $76k → 15%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $75k → 15%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $54k → 15%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $54k → 15%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $41k → 15%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $40k → 15%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $38k → 15%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $14k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $14k → 11%COMMUNITY COMPASS: $13k → 11%BANGOR YMCA: $75k → 15%BANGOR YMCA: $75k → 15%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $70k → 15%BANGOR YMCA: $59k → 15%BANGOR YMCA: $58k → 15%COMMUNITY COMPASS: $20k → 11%BANGOR YMCA: $57k → 15%COMMUNITY COMPASS: $15k → 11%BANGOR YMCA: $52k → 15%PENQUIS: $51k → 15%PENQUIS: $51k → 15%PENQUIS: $48k → 15%PENQUIS: $48k → 15%PENQUIS: $43k → 15%PENQUIS: $42k → 15%PENQUIS: $41k → 15%PENQUIS: $36k → 15%MAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS: $20k → 15%MAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS: $19k → 15%OHI: $16k → 15%AMICUS: $15k → 15%OHI: $15k → 15%OHI: $15k → 15%AMICUS: $15k → 15%OHI: $13k → 15%OHI: $12k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BANGOR: $12k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 63 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
18

Total granted

$7.7M
$319k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-14%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SH
    SHAW HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $624k · revenue +28%
  • EA
    Eastern Area Agency on Aging
    9× · 2017–2025 · $536k · revenue +104%
  • PC
    PENQUIS CAP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $404k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of York County
    one grant, 2020 · $69k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $53k · revenue -14%
  • TE
    The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson
    one grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue -79% · 35% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
4
Community Health and Counseling Services

Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.

Health
5
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
6
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
7
Homeworthy
Human Services
8
Community Health and Nursing Services

Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.

Health
9
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

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…

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10
Southern Maine Affordable Housing

To provide quality affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
11
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.

—
12
MaineGeneral Health and Affiliates

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Mental Health Connections Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/69
Grantees still filing
44/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHAW HOUSE: $623,973 · OtherSHAW HOUSEGOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $558,512 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN AGENCYHealth Equity Alliance: $331,315 · OtherHealth Equity AllianceTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $222,111 · OtherTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTERUNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK: $212,634 · OtherUNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOKHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRTR BANGOR: $195,774 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRTR BANGORCobscook Community Learning Center: $171,462 · OtherWABANAKI PUBLIC HEALTH & WELLNESS: $120,135 · Other+32 more: $949,976 · Other+32 moreEastern Area Agency on Aging: $536,159 · Human ServicesEastern Area Agency on AgingPENQUIS CAP INC: $403,663 · Human ServicesPENQUIS CAP INCBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $399,082 · Human ServicesBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA…PARTNERS FOR PEACE: $283,704 · Human ServicesPARTNERS FOR PEACECommunity Care: $168,101 · Human ServicesCommunity CareNEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC: $99,089 · Human ServicesOHI: $93,588 · Human ServicesIndependence Advocates of Maine Inc: $86,517 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM GENERATIONS: $86,169 · Human Services+15 more: $422,738 · Human Services+15 more211 Maine Inc: $358,312 · Health211 Maine IncPenobscot Community Health Center: $229,176 · HealthPenobscot Communi…HEALTHY ACADIA: $222,065 · HealthHEALTHY ACADIAWELLSPRING INC: $165,856 · HealthWELLSPRING INCSunrise Opportunities: $123,365 · HealthSunrise Opportuni…United Cerebral Palsy of Northeastern Maine: $68,031 · HealthUnited Cerebral P…CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC: $41,787 · Health+2 more: $30,584 · HealthLiteracy Volunteers of Bangor: $182,750 · EducationBangor Area Recovery Network Inc: $141,248 · EducationUniversity of Maine Foundation: $60,000 · EducationUnited Way Inc: $268,496 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY: $45,618 · PhilanthropyLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $78,833 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank: $63,276 · Food & NutritionPISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CENTER: $15,378 · Food & NutritionMAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE: $58,807 · Youth Development
Other$3,385,892Human Services$2,578,810Health$1,239,176Education$383,998Philanthropy$314,114Food & Nutrition$157,487Youth Development$58,807

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHAW HOUSE: $623,973 over 7y, 11% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $558,512 over 8y, 13% of budgetEastern Area Agency on Aging: $536,159 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetPENQUIS CAP INC: $403,663 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $399,082 over 7y, 1.2% of budget211 Maine Inc: $358,312 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetHealth Equity Alliance: $331,315 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PEACE: $283,704 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $268,496 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPenobscot Community Health Center: $229,176 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $222,111 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetHEALTHY ACADIA: $222,065 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK: $212,634 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRTR BANGOR: $195,774 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Bangor: $182,750 over 9y, 13% of budgetCobscook Community Learning Center: $171,462 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCommunity Care: $168,101 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $165,856 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBangor Area Recovery Network Inc: $141,248 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetSunrise Opportunities: $123,365 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC: $99,089 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetOHI: $93,588 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIndependence Advocates of Maine Inc: $86,517 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSPECTRUM GENERATIONS: $86,169 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $78,833 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetHEALTHY PENINSULA: $73,237 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetUnited Way of York County: $69,473 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy of Northeastern Maine: $68,031 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $63,276 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MID COAST MAINE INC: $61,199 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HANCOCK COMMUNITY AGENCY: $59,357 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE: $58,807 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetFOOD AND MEDICINE - JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $57,369 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MID-MAINE: $56,114 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetMAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC: $55,921 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $54,378 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC: $53,449 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine: $52,019 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetBIDDEFORD FOOD PANTRY: $49,645 over 4y, 17% of budgetThe Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson: $47,726 over 1y, 35% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY: $45,618 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC: $41,787 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $40,099 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BANGOR: $33,711 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC: $33,015 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmicus: $29,831 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBUCKSPORT AREA CHILD CARE CENTER: $29,710 over 3y, 3.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Bangor Savings Bank F…Maine Health Access F…Fisher Charitable Fou…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Machias Savings Bank …Good Shepherd Food Ba…Elmina B Sewall Found…Simmons Foundation - …Harvard Pilgrim Healt…Agnes M Lindsay Trust
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Heart of Maine United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heart of Maine United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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