· Private foundation
John T Gorman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k101 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k29 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lewiston Public Schools | $345,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Bangor | $316,000 |
| MaineHealth | $310,000 |
| Bangor Housing Development Corporation | $297,000 |
| The Root Cellar | $275,000 |
| Mercy Hospital | $263,000 |
| Maine Cancer Foundation | $250,000 |
| Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | $240,000 |
| Sanford Public Schools | $235,000 |
| Trekkers Inc | $215,000 |
| Educate Maine | $196,000 |
| Healthy Acadia | $165,000 |
| University System of New Hampshire | $159,000 |
| Coastal Enterprises Inc | $150,000 |
| United Way of Southern Maine | $145,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
181 repeat relationships: 120 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMaineHealth5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +87%
- MHMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +69%
- PSPREBLE STREET5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +50%
Funded once
- M(MaineHealth (dba Maine Behavioral Healthcare)one grant, 2023 · $292k
- SOState of Maineone grant, 2020 · $220k
- HHHEALTHY HOMEWORKSone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -66% · 36% 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.
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.
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.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…
Provide low-income defendants assistance in obtaining pretrial release and supervision.
The organization advocates for the creation and preservation of affordable housing so all people in maine have a place to call home.
To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.
MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.
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,…
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.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
To provide quality affordable housing
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.
How this is measured
265 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 265 of the 340 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds BANGOR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Maine Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BANGOR ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ACADIA ↗
- Who funds MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION DBA MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MAINE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROOT CELLAR ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
- Who funds AVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Lewiston-Auburn Area Housing Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Concepts Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Equal Justice Partners ↗
- Who funds MAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds Sunrise Opportunities ↗
- Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TREKKERS INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS 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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · United Way Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Onion Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John T Gorman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John T Gorman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc: 100% of income from government
- Veterans Inc: 58% of income from government
- Bluehub Capital Inc: 32% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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