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Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$403kEducation$294kHealth$234kHuman Services$216kEnvironment$165kHousing & Shelter$130kPhilanthropy$113kFood & Nutrition$111kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Lift All Boats$10,000
Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Avesta Housing Development Corporation$5,000
Rural Aspirations Project$5,000
Information Technology Exchange Give IT Get IT$5,000
Midcoast Habitat For Humanity$5,000
Families First Community Center$5,000
United Way of Southern Maine$5,000
Preble Street$5,000
Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $10k → 7%Downeast Community Partners: $9k → 11%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $10k → 7%Families First Community Center: $5k → 11%Area Interfaith Outreach: $3k → 11%Families First Community Center: $5k → 11%Penquis CAP Inc: $20k → 15%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $5k → 15%Preble Street: $5k → 7%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $2k → 11%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $3k → 15%Downeast Community Partners: $5k → 16%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $5k → 7%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $3k → 15%Preble Street: $5k → 7%Community Care: $5k → 15%The Northern Light House Inc: $10k → 15%The Center for the Advancement of Rural Living (CARL): $3k → 15%Washington County Association for Retarded Citizens (WCARC): $4k → 16%Preble Street: $4k → 7%Penquis CAP Inc: $5k → 15%Downeast Community Partners: $3k → 16%Penquis CAP Inc: $4k → 15%Boys & Girls Club of Bangor: $3k → 15%Port Resources: $9k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $5k → 7%Port Resources: $5k → 7%Bangor Region YMCA: $3k → 15%The Opportunity Alliance: $5k → 7%Port Resources: $2k → 7%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $5k → 15%Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $5k → 15%Kid's Corner: $2k → 11%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
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $232k · revenue +212%
  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downeast Community Partners Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 158 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/108
Grantees still filing
88/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $50,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTICEMHS Foundation: $50,000 · OtherEMHS FoundationMachias 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 ServicesThe Opportunity Alliance: $10,000 · Human ServicesEastern Area Agency on Aging: $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 …AXIOM EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTER: $10,000 · EducationAXIOM EDU…Hand in Hand Mano en Mano: $10,000 · EducationHand in H…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…CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICES: $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 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 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 budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% 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 budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLocker Project: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUPSTART MAINE INC: $14,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOASTAL ENTERPRISES INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southern ME: $12,500 over 2y, 2.1% 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 budgetPortland Public Library: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMIDCOAST HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAXIOM EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIFT ALL BOATS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRTR BANGOR: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Maine Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEastern Area Agency on Aging: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommon Threads of Maine: $7,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBOOTS2ROOTS: $7,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCommunity Care: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% 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.

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…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

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 Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation. 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%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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 158 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-PF 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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