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Maine Cancer Foundation

Maine Cancer Foundation is dedicated to reducing cancer incidence and mortality rates in Maine.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$181k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$14MYouth Development$469kHuman Services$401kEducation$302kScience & Tech$200kPublic Benefit$120kInternational$85kFood & Nutrition$81kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $337k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $2.2M
$60,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MaineHealth - Maine Medical Center$180,500
Beth C Wright Cancer Resource Center$174,000
Maine Primary Care Association$161,340
Impact Melanoma$130,000
Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine$112,500
Franklin Memorial Hospital$93,022
Dempsey Center$93,022
Sacopee Valley Health Center$85,000
AK Health & Social Services$80,000
Penobscot Community Health Center$80,000
Greater Portland Health$80,000
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center$80,000
Joe Andruzzi Foundation$75,000
City of Portland$70,000
Healthy Community Coalition$67,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Patient Airlift Services: $60k → 7%York County Community Action Corporation: $60k → 9%Waldo Community Action Partners: $60k → 13%Patient Airlift Services: $30k → 7%York County Community Action Corporation: $60k → 9%Waldo Community Action Partners: $60k → 13%Patient AirLift Services: $30k → 7%York County Community Action Corporation: $50k → 9%Waldo Community Action Partners: $50k → 13%Aroostook Regional Transportation System: $60k → 15%Patient AirLift Services: $20k → 7%York County Community Action Corporation: $42k → 9%Waldo Community Action Partners: $50k → 13%York County Community Action Corporation: $40k → 9%Downeast Community Partners: $60k → 11%Dean Snell Cancer Foundation: $60k → 7%Down East Community Partners: $50k → 11%AK Health & Social Services: $80k → 13%St Joseph Hospital: $80k → 15%Dean Snell Cancer Foundation: $60k → 7%Dean Snell Cancer Foundation: $53k → 7%Dean Snell Cancer Foundation: $50k → 7%Friends In Action: $40k → 11%Friends in Action: $30k → 11%Penquis CAP: $60k → 15%Dean Snell Cancer Foundation: $10k → 7%Friends in Action: $14k → 11%Penquis CAP: $60k → 15%Penquis CAP Inc: $58k → 15%Friends in Action: $10k → 11%Penquis: $50k → 15%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $60k → 12%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $50k → 12%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $50k → 12%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $30k → 12%AK Health and Social Services: $15k → 13%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $10k → 12%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $10k → 12%Western Maine Transportation Services: $20k → 13%Bangor YMCA: $11k → 15%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $10k → 12%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $10k → 12%Maine Access Immigrant Network: $46k → 7%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $10k → 12%Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area: $10k → 12%Island Connections: $10k → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 57 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
45

Total granted

$12M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $568k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    6× · 2019–2024 · $871k · revenue +80%
  • BC
    BETH C WRIGHT CANCER RESOURCE CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $646k · revenue +71% · 60% of their budget
  • PC
    Penobscot Community Health Center
    6× · 2017–2024 · $548k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • University of New England
    one grant, 2017 · $302k · revenue +24%
  • RA
    Rinck Advertising
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +42%

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.

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Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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2
MaineGeneral Health and Affiliates

MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.

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3
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
4
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
5
Vna Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice

VNA Home Health & Hospice d/b/a Northern Light Home Care & Hospice provides clinically excellent, compassionate home health and hospice care to individuals and families

Health
6
Southern Maine Health Care

Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.

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7
Lakewood Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood

Lakewood d/b/a Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood is a 105 bed long-term care facility that provides skilled, dementia and long-term nursing care.

Health
8
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

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.

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9
Community Health and Nursing Services

Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.

Health
10
Western Maine Health Care Corp

Ensured a high quality, accessible, affordable and appropriate integrated health care system to improve the health and well being of the community.

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11
LincolnHealth Group

LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.

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Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mainehealth Care At Home and the most unlike its peers is The Snell 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 backsteadyOutdoor Recreation & Sports…Business & Industry Associa…Family Philanthropic Founda…Community Cable AccessMaine Land and Water Conser…Regional Healthcare SystemsMaine Healthcare & Housing …Developmental Disabilities …Community Food Pantries
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 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%11%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%13%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr15%13%35–55yr16%20%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 — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
5/95
the rest of the field
11%
1,267/11,186

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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 112 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/87
Grantees still filing
66/87
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MaineHealth — $870,850 · HealthMaineHealthBETH C WRIGHT CANCER RESOURCE CENTER — $645,608 · HealthBETH C WRIGHT CANCER RESOURCE CENTERPenobscot Community Health Center — $548,290 · HealthPenobscot Community Health CenterHEALTHY ACADIA — $546,845 · HealthHEALTHY ACADIAMaine Public Health Association — $413,539 · HealthDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care — $395,779 · HealthCANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF WESTERN MAINE — $377,500 · HealthIMPACT MELANOMA INC — $342,443 · HealthMaineHealth Services — $313,719 · Health+35 more — $3,618,954 · Health+35 moreMaine General Medical Center — $449,777 · OtherMaine General Medical CenterMaine Quality Counts — $356,117 · OtherMaine Quality CountsTHE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION — $322,397 · OtherTHE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATIONRinck Advertising — $250,000 · OtherRinck AdvertisingCity of Portland — $210,000 · OtherGreater Portland Health — $164,000 · OtherPen Bay Medical Center — $161,388 · OtherHealthy Community Coalition of Greater Franklin County — $149,832 · Other+37 more — $2,263,507 · Other+37 moreYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION — $252,000 · Human ServicesYORK COUNTY CO…DEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION — $232,500 · Human ServicesDEAN SNELL CAN…PENQUIS CAP INC — $227,500 · Human ServicesPENQUIS CAP IN…WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS — $219,966 · Human ServicesWALDO COMMUNIT…KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $190,000 · Human ServicesKENNEBEC VALLE…DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $170,000 · Human ServicesDOWNEAST COMMU…PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesPATIENT AIRLIF…AK HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES — $95,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS IN ACTION — $94,125 · Human ServicesCommunity Care — $80,000 · Human Services+7 more — $236,802 · Human Services+7 moreCENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CORPORATION — $415,409 · PhilanthropyOUT Maine — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity of New England — $301,730 · EducationAXIOM EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTER — $70,000 · EducationAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $234,310 · Crime & LegalHospitality Homes Inc — $198,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$8,073,527Other$4,327,018Human Services$1,937,893Philanthropy$465,409Education$371,730Crime & Legal$234,310Housing & Shelter$198,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMaineHealth — $870,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETH C WRIGHT CANCER RESOURCE CENTER — $645,608 over 7y, 60% of budgetPenobscot Community Health Center — $548,290 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHY ACADIA — $546,845 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetCENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CORPORATION — $415,409 over 6y, 17% of budgetMaine Public Health Association — $413,539 over 6y, 83% of budgetDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care — $395,779 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF WESTERN MAINE — $377,500 over 7y, 77% of budgetMaine Quality Counts — $356,117 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetIMPACT MELANOMA INC — $342,443 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION — $322,397 over 3y, 22% of budgetMaineHealth Services — $313,719 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of New England — $301,730 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION — $252,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $234,310 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDEAN SNELL CANCER FOUNDATION — $232,500 over 5y, 52% of budgetNEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE — $230,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetPENQUIS CAP INC — $227,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS — $219,966 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHANLEY CENTER FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION — $215,186 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $199,891 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc — $198,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetSARAH'S HOUSE OF MAINE — $195,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen — $190,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $190,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION — $181,340 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $174,580 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $170,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL MAINE MEDICAL CENTER — $164,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATAHDIN VALLEY HEALTH CENTER — $164,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWaldo County General Hospital — $140,806 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $140,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $140,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetHealthy Communities of the Capital Area — $135,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetCHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC — $121,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetCommunity Concepts Inc — $110,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL MAINE HEALTHCARE CORPORATION — $105,560 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLAKE REGION SENIOR SERVICE INC — $104,070 over 3y, 33% of budgetISLANDS COMMUNITY MEDICAL SERVICES — $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarrington Family Health Center Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAK HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES — $95,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS IN ACTION — $94,125 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetSacopee Valley Health Center — $85,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAUGUSTA TEEN CENTER OF THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $80,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPortland Community Health Center — $80,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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…Maine Health Access F…John T Gorman Foundat…Davis Family Foundati…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Elmina B Sewall Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…United Way IncGood Shepherd Food Ba…Fisher Charitable Fou…The Harry E Davis Par…Machias Savings Bank …
Maine Community Foundation IncME87.5× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · United Way Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Fisher Charitable Foundation · The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health · Machias Savings Bank Community Development 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 Maine Cancer 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 · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Impact Melanoma Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
19report 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.

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 112 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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