How much does Maine Children's Trust give?

Maine Children's Trust reported 14 grants totaling $12,122,228 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Maine Children's Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (56%), Crime & Legal (32%), Health (7%).

Who are Maine Children's Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kennebec Valley Community Action Program ($12M), Penquis Cap ($11M), Community Concepts Inc ($11M).

Does Maine Children's Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Children's Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, John T Gorman Foundation, Maine Health Access Foundation Inc.

Where is Maine Children's Trust based?

Maine Children's Trust is based in ME.

Maine Children's Trust

Maine Children's Trust at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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.

$12M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.9M

Largest

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 2025.

Human Services$48MCrime & Legal$28MHealth$6.2MEducation$4.3M

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$50k–250k3 grants · $355k
$250k+11 grants · $12M

$886,393

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$87M · 22 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$87M

$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+48%

Still filing today

73%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthEducationOther

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

KV
KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +66%
PC
PENQUIS CAP
9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +80%
CC
COMMUNITY CONCEPTS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +66%

Funded once

CM
COUNT ME INgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +48%
MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME
one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -12%

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.

New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation

Health

Kids Corner Inc

To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.

Human Services

Maine Children's Trust

Crime & Legal

Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers

To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.

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Penobscot Community Health Center

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…

Health

Belfast Area Child Care Services Inc

Our mission is to provide quality, affordable early childhood education that fosters individual success and a lifelong love of learning.

Human Services

Community Health and Counseling Services

Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.

Health

Wings for Children and Families Inc

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.

Health

Home Counselors Inc

To provide services to displaced youths and families in Maine counties.

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Maine Association for the Education of Young Children

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…

Education

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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Maine Community Action Association Dba Maine Community Action Partnership

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.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care; 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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 24 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/23

Grantees still filing

15/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$36,571,138Other$23,611,102Crime & Legal$15,232,272Health$11,642,409Education$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 Foundation IncME37.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Children's Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Children's Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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