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Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$205k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Community Improvement$376kHuman Services$228kEducation$160kEnvironment$157kHealth$157kPhilanthropy$105kFood & Nutrition$69kCrime & Legal$46kHousing & Shelter$41kOther$609k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maine Lobstermen's Community Alliance$50,000
Jobs For Maine Graduates Inc$25,000
Penquis CAP Inc$20,000
Homeless Services of Aroostook$10,000
Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute$10,000
Lift All Boats$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Rural Aspirations Project$5,000
Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital$5,000
Preble Street$5,000
Midcoast Habitat For Humanity$5,000
Families First Community Center$5,000
United Way of Southern Maine$5,000
Information Technology Exchange Give IT Get IT$5,000
Avesta Housing Development Corporation$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $216k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%St George Community Development Corporation: $1k → 11%Adopt A Block of Aroostook: $5k → 15%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $5k → 9%Adopt-a-Block of Aroostook: $5k → 15%Adopt-A-Block of Aroostook: $2k → 15%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $2k → 9%The Northern Light House Inc: $10k → 15%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $3k → 7%Families First Community Center: $10k → 11%Downeast Community Partners: $9k → 11%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $10k → 7%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $10k → 7%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $5k → 15%Area Interfaith Outreach: $3k → 11%Families First Community Center: $5k → 11%Penquis CAP Inc: $20k → 15%Preble Street: $5k → 7%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $2k → 11%Preble Street: $5k → 7%Families First Community Center: $5k → 11%Penquis CAP Inc: $5k → 15%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $3k → 15%Downeast Community Partners: $5k → 16%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $5k → 7%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $3k → 15%The Northern Light House Inc: $10k → 15%Washington County Association for Retarded Citizens (WCARC): $4k → 16%Preble Street: $4k → 7%Community Care: $5k → 15%The Center for the Advancement of Rural Living (CARL): $3k → 15%Downeast Community Partners: $3k → 16%Penquis CAP Inc: $4k → 15%Bangor Region YMCA: $3k → 15%Port Resources: $9k → 7%Boys & Girls Club of Bangor: $3k → 15%The Opportunity Alliance: $5k → 7%Port Resources: $5k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $5k → 7%Port Resources: $2k → 7%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $5k → 15%Kid's Corner: $2k → 11%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $5k → 15%Common Good Soup Kitchen Community: $2k → 11%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 55 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
89

Total granted

$1.4M
$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+50%

Still filing today

82%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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 & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $232k · revenue +57%
  • ML
    MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +19%
  • HU
    Husson University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • MS
    Machias School Department
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +50%
  • UM
    UPSTART MAINE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +121%

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 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
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
3
Southern Maine Affordable Housing

To provide quality affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
4
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
5
Fork Food Lab

Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…

Environment
6
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…

—
7
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
8
Harbor House Community Service Center

To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.

Community Improvement
9
Maine GearShare

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

Recreation & Sports
10
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
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
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downeast Community Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Galen Cole Family Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducational Institution Fou…Rural Maine Community Servi…Labor Unions and Employee B…Fisheries Conservation & Ed…Youth Sports ProgramsMaine Community DevelopmentMember Recreation ClubsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Family Support ServicesPublic LibrariesCommunity Arts & PerformanceMaine Community DevelopmentAffordable Housing ProvidersRural Maine Healthcare Prov…Independent Schools MaineRegional Healthcare SystemsAnimal Shelter and RescueEarly Childhood Care Centers
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 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%1%<5yr12%8%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr17%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%2%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr17%24%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/117
the rest of the field
9%
433/4,877

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

108 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. 108 of the 158 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)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/108
Grantees still filing
87/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EMHS Foundation — $50,000 · OtherEMHS FoundationCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $50,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTICMachias School Department — $30,000 · OtherJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc — $30,000 · OtherCobscook Learning Center — $26,500 · OtherAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $27,500 · Other+91 more — $550,606 · Other+91 moreSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL — $232,000 · Community ImprovementSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOM…FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY — $70,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR A STRO…MAINESTREAM FINANCE — $40,000 · Community ImprovementMAINESTREAM FINANCEUPSTART MAINE INC — $14,000 · Community Improvement+4 more — $19,500 · Community ImprovementTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE NORTHERN …PENQUIS CAP INC — $28,500 · Human ServicesPENQUIS CAP I…Families First Community Center — $20,000 · Human ServicesFamilies Firs…DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $16,250 · Human ServicesDOWNEAST COMM…PORT RESOURCES INC — $15,800 · Human ServicesPORT RESOURCE…GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PORTL…PREBLE STREET — $14,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREETADOPT-A-BLOCK OF AROOSTOOK — $12,000 · Human ServicesOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute — $10,000 · Human ServicesEastern Area Agency on Aging — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity Alliance — $10,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $9,000 · Human Services+12 more — $37,500 · Human Services+12 moreHusson University — $100,000 · EducationHusson Un…Portland Public Library — $10,000 · EducationPortland …Hand in Hand Mano en Mano — $10,000 · EducationHand in H…AXIOM EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTER — $10,000 · EducationAXIOM EDU…University of Maine Foundation — $8,000 · EducationPINE TREE SOCIETY INC — $5,700 · Education+6 more — $16,500 · Education+6 moreMAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $150,000 · EnvironmentMAINE LOB…+2 more — $7,000 · EnvironmentDown East Community Hospital — $100,000 · HealthDown East…HEALTHY ACADIA — $12,500 · HealthHEALTHY A…COMMUNITY HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICES — $7,500 · HealthCHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · HealthBETH C WRIGHT CANCER RESOURCE CENTER — $7,000 · Health+7 more — $22,000 · Health+7 moreMaine Community Foundation Inc — $100,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Inc — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$764,606Community Improvement$375,500Human Services$228,050Education$160,200Environment$157,000Health$156,500Philanthropy$105,000

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 budgetSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL — $232,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetMAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $150,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetHusson University — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDown East Community Hospital — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY — $70,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAINESTREAM FINANCE — $40,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENQUIS CAP INC — $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission — $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFamilies First Community Center — $20,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $18,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $16,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPORT RESOURCES INC — $15,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLocker Project — $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUPSTART MAINE INC — $14,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southern ME — $12,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOASTAL ENTERPRISES INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHY ACADIA — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADOPT-A-BLOCK OF AROOSTOOK — $12,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPORTLAND OVATIONS — $11,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIFT ALL BOATS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPortland Public Library — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEastern Maine Development Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRTR BANGOR — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEastern Area Agency on Aging — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAXIOM EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMIDCOAST HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY — $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries — $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCommon Threads of Maine — $7,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCommunity Care — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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…John T Gorman Foundat…Fisher Charitable Fou…Bangor Savings Bank F…Elmina B Sewall Found…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Simmons Foundation - …Sam L Cohen FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Agnes M Lindsay TrustGood Shepherd Food Ba…Onion Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME140.1× affinity97 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 · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Onion Foundation

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 Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    41report 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 Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation 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 158 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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