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Jcl Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2018
20
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Crime & Legal$20kHuman Services$20kCivil Rights$14kArts & Culture$10kSocial Science$8kEnvironment$5kHealth$4kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2018 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACLU OF MAINE$7,500
Individual grant recipient$2,750
MAINE EQUAL JUSTICE PARTNERS$1,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW ENGLAND$1,500
MAINE WOMENS POLICY CENTER$1,000
MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY$1,000
MAINE WOMEN'S FUND$750
WOMEN UNITED AROUND THE WORLD$559
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$500
NEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATION$500
BERNARD COLLEGE$500
MAINE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL$500
TREE STREET YOUTH INC$500
MAINE CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$500
MAINE FARMLAND TRUST$500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAINE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES: $10k → 7%YWCA CENTRAL MAINE: $1k → 13%THE CENTER FOR WISDOM'S WOMEN: $250 → 13%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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19k · 6 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
24

Total granted

$19k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+83%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • MC
    MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +60%
  • TS
    TREE STREET YOUTH INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +90%
  • MJ
    Maine Jewish Film Festival
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • IL
    IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +145%
  • MI
    MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +119%
  • US
    UMAINE SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2017 · $7k

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
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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2
Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

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3
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
4
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

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5
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.

Human Services
6
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
7
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment
8
Maine Donor Alliance

To build a permanent and powerful social change movement in Maine, supported by a network of committed donors.

Civil Rights
9
Maine Rivers

Maine Rivers is a statewide advocacy organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine's river systems. We support and direct efforts to conserve and improve the health of Maine's rivers and…

Environment
10
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
11
Coastal Enterprises Inc

Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.

Housing & Shelter
12
Manufacturers Association of Maine

The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Center for Economic Policy and the most unlike its peers is Growsmart Maine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr21%29%10–20yr21%25%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr21%42%10–20yr21%32%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 18% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
10%
2,477/23,752

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

32 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. 32 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACLU OF MAINE — $7,500 · OtherACLU OF MAINEUMAINE SCHOOL OF LAW — $7,000 · OtherUMAINE SCHOOL OF LAWLA ARTS — $6,000 · OtherLA ARTSIndividual grant recipient — $5,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF LEWISTONAUBURN — $5,000 · OtherSOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF LEWISTONAUBURNMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $3,000 · OtherMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTERPINE TREE WATCH — $2,500 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $2,000 · Other+21 more — $15,609 · Other+21 moreIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $11,500 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRANT LEGAL…Maine Equal Justice Partners — $1,500 · Crime & LegalMaine Equal Jus…+1 more — $250 · Crime & LegalMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRAN…YWCA Central Maine — $1,000 · Human ServicesYWCA Central M…NEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATION — $500 · Human Services+2 more — $550 · Human ServicesMAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY — $7,500 · Social ScienceINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,200 · Arts & CultureMaine Jewish Film Festival — $1,500 · Arts & CultureMAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $1,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $250 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC — $2,000 · Civil RightsAPNE AAP USA INC — $1,000 · Civil RightsTREE STREET YOUTH INC — $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$53,859Crime & Legal$13,250Human Services$12,050Social Science$7,500Arts & Culture$4,950Civil Rights$3,000Youth Development$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $11,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY — $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLA ARTS — $6,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Jewish Film Festival — $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIsland Institute — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE WOMENS FUND — $1,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition Against Trafficking In Women — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROWSMART MAINE — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE SERVICES OF SOUTHERN MAINE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEA CHANGE YOGA — $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WISDOMS WOMEN — $250 over 1y, 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 Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationMaine InitiativesincMaine Health Access F…John T Gorman Foundat…Onion FoundationSimmons Foundation - …Good Shepherd Food Ba…Helen and George Ladd…The Hudson FoundationSpectemur Agendo Inc
Maine Community Foundation IncME46.3× affinity22 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 · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Onion Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Helen and George Ladd Charitable 0720995 Charitable Corporation #0720995 · The Hudson Foundation · Spectemur Agendo Inc

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 Jcl Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report 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, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Jcl Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Jcl Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 45 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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