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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Dempsey Center$93,022
Franklin Memorial Hospital$93,022
Sacopee Valley Health Center$85,000
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center$80,000
AK Health & Social Services$80,000
Greater Portland Health$80,000
Penobscot Community Health Center$80,000
Joe Andruzzi Foundation$75,000
City of Portland$70,000
Healthy Community Coalition$67,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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%AK Health & Social Services: $80k → 13%Dean Snell Cancer Foundation: $60k → 7%Down East Community Partners: $50k → 11%St Joseph Hospital: $80k → 15%Dean Snell Cancer Foundation: $60k → 7%Dean Snell Cancer Foundation: $53k → 7%Friends In Action: $40k → 11%Dean Snell Cancer Foundation: $50k → 7%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%Penquis: $50k → 15%Friends in Action: $10k → 11%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
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 56 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
45

Total granted

$12M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+24%

Still filing today

88%
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
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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    6× · 2019–2024 · $871k · revenue +106%
  • 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%
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 Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital

The Hospital is a not-for-profit entity established to provide health care services through its acute care facility and physician practices.

Health
2
The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital

The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital d/b/a Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital is dedicated to improving the health and wellness of our communities by providing primary and specialty health care of outstanding quality and caring for our patients…

Health
3
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health

EMHS d/b/a Northern Light Health, a supporting organization for healthcare affiliates, maintains and improves the health and well-being of the people of Maine through a well-organized network of local health care providers who together…

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4
Acadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital

The primary mission and significant activities of Acadia Hospital, Corp. d/b/a Northern Light Acadia Hospital are the provision of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and mental health services to children, adolescents, and adults.

Health
5
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
6
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
7
Inland Hospital Northern Light Inland Hospital

To care for and serve our community by providing Healthcare Services.

Health
8
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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9
Northern Light Health Foundation

Raise & manage funds for exempt organizations

Health
10
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
11
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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12
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Maine Medical Center; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 111 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/87
Grantees still filing
67/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 moreMAINEGENERAL HEALTH: $549,777 · OtherMAINEGENERAL HEALTHMaine 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+36 more: $2,163,507 · Other+36 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $190,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen: $190,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $140,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $140,000 over 4y, 2.6% 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 budgetHarrington Family Health Center Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetISLANDS COMMUNITY MEDICAL SERVICES: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetSebasticook Valley Health Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hosp: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital: $80,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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…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

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 Cancer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Cancer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.

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 111 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home