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Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs

To create high quality jobs for maine through best practice incubations services that systematically assist new businesses with intellectual property and business plan needs, r&d activities, early stage financing and product commercialization.

$31k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$319k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$30k100%
FY20232$30k100%
FY20221$25k100%
FY20211$25k100%
FY20201$25k100%
FY20192$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$75kRecreation & Sports$50kScience & Tech$25kYouth Development$25kFood & Nutrition$5kArts & Culture$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Neuright Inc$25,0001n/a
Nor'Easter Oyster Co$25,0001n/a
Ocean Innovation LLC$25,0001n/a
Rmt Tech LLC Dba Reach My Teach$25,0001n/a
Sticky Sweet$25,0001n/a
Sklaza LLC$25,0001n/a
Literacy Tech Inc$25,0001n/a
Ocean Farm Supply LLC$5,0001n/a
Deltacom Coffee LLC$5,0001n/a

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Maine Technology InstituteME15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs

How much does Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs give?
Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs reported 2 grants totaling $30,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (41%), Recreation & Sports (27%), Science & Tech (14%).
Who are Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Neuright Inc ($25k), Nor'Easter Oyster Co ($25k), Ocean Innovation LLC ($25k).
Does Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Technology Institute.
Where is Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs based?
Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs is based in ME.

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 9 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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