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Maine Children's Trust
The Maine Children's Trust is a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent abuse and neglect by organizing a strong unified voice that abuse is preventable and to facilitate collaboration to accomplish this goal.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k3 grants · $355k
- $250k+11 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY CONCEPTS INC | $1,902,394 |
| KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $1,863,918 |
| PENQUIS CAP | $1,590,058 |
| SUNRISE OPPORTUNITY | $1,284,070 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE COOPERATIVE EXTENSION | $1,108,094 |
| THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE | $986,063 |
| AROOSTOOK COUNCIL FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES | $886,393 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY CHILDREN'S TASK | $722,079 |
| DECHSUNRISE CARE FACILITY | $662,258 |
| MAINE FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION | $441,631 |
| KIDS FREE TO GROW | $319,993 |
| HEALTHY KIDS | $166,000 |
| MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION | $97,188 |
| WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS | $92,089 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $36.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KVKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +75%
- PCPENQUIS CAP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +68%
- CCCommunity Concepts Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CMCOUNT ME INgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +48%
The President and Trustees of Colby Collegeone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.
The Maine Children's Trust is a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent abuse and neglect by organizing a strong unified voice that abuse is preventable and to facilitate collaboration to accomplish this goal.
To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Our mission is to provide quality, affordable early childhood education that fosters individual success and a lifelong love of learning.
Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.
Wings For Children & Families partners with families and providers to deliver quality case management services utilizing the wraparound planning process, train other system providers improve quality of care.
To provide services to displaced youths and families in Maine counties.
MaineAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and…
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…
A statewide organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of maine people by advocating for, promoting, and supporting the work of the maine community action agencies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care and the most unlike its peers is Count Me in. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PENQUIS CAP INC ↗
- Who funds Community Concepts Inc ↗
- Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNCIL TO PREVENT CHILD D/B/A AROOSTOOK COUNCIL FOR HEALTHY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY CHILDRENS TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MAINE HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds Sunrise Healthcare ↗
- Who funds PARENT PROGRAM OF MID-COAST MAINE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds Sunrise Opportunities ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Kids Free to Grow ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY KIDS A FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BROADREACH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HANCOCK COMMUNITY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Support ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES AND CHILDREN TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds COUNT ME IN ↗
- Who funds Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Maine Community Action Association Dba Maine Community Action Partnership · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Heart of Maine United Way · United Way Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Western Maine Community Action Inc · Maine Cancer Foundation · Elmina B Sewall 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 Children's Trust 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.
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.