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Maine Beverage Distributors Assoc Inc at a glance

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Maine Beverage Distributors Assoc Inc

The purposes are to incorporate as a relief or benefit associati for mutual assistance, and for the protection and betterment of its interest in general; to raise and maintain the standard of the beverage industry, and to cultivate friendship, good-will and business co-operation.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$25kPhilanthropy$20kEmployment$15kHuman Services$15kCommunity Improvement$10kEducation$5kCivil Rights$5kHealth$3k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Good Shephard Food Bank$10,000
Full Plates Potential$5,000
Walk A Mile in Their Shoes$5,000
The Ride for Maine Veterans Project$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Ride for Maine Veterans Project: $1k → 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 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 Farm Bureau Association

An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.

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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
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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4
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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5
Maine Medical Association

To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.

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6
Maine State Chamber of Commerce

Enhance the business climate, the quality of life, and economic wellbeing of the businesses and people of maine

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7
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
8
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

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9
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
10
Retail Association of Maine F/K/a Maine Merchants Association

The association's primary exempt purpose is to improve business conditions for its members in the retail, wholesale, and service industries by representing its members and keeping them informed of laws and regulations affecting them.

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11
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
12
Maine Association of Nonprofits

Our mission is to strengthen the leadership, voice, and organizational effectiveness of our state's nonprofit organizations so they can better enrich the quality of community and personal life in Maine.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault; the most unlike its peers is Walk a Mile in Their Shoes. 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

13 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES: $15,000 · OtherWALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOESHOSPITALITY MAINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherHOSPITALITY MAINE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC: $10,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INCMAINE COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT: $5,000 · OtherMAINE COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULTGood Shepherd Food Bank: $20,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food BankFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIALLEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLEWISTON AU…Maine Community Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMaine Commu…GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · EducationBUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EmploymentThe Center for Alcohol Policy: $1,500 · HealthMaineHealth: $500 · HealthMAINE VETERANS PROJECT: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$40,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Community Improvement$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Education$5,000Employment$5,000Health$2,000Human Services$1,000

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 budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES: $15,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetHOSPITALITY MAINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetLEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Center for Alcohol Policy: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE VETERANS PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMaineHealth: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Bangor Savings Bank F…Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover 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 · Amazonsmile 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 Maine Beverage Distributors Assoc Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Beverage Distributors Assoc Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    4report 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Maine Beverage Distributors Assoc Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Maine Beverage Distributors Assoc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 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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