· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $803,826 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $852,031 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,205 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $616k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM | $165,913 |
| OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE | $118,552 |
| WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION | $88,060 |
| KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $65,526 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $62,846 |
| YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION | $58,322 |
| WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS | $57,072 |
| COMMUNITY CONCEPTS INC | $49,425 |
| MAINEHEALTH | $48,203 |
| MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION | $37,999 |
| ANDROSCOGGIN HEAD START & CHILD CARE | $23,743 |
| WABANAKI PUBLIC HEALTH & WELLNESS | $20,165 |
| DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $8,000 |
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, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% 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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 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
- YCYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $557k · revenue +73%
- WMWESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $447k · revenue +16%
- CCCommunity Concepts Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $354k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- WHWASHINGTON HANCOCK COMMUNITY AGENCYone grant, 2017 · $59k
- MHMAINE HOUSING INCone grant, 2021 · $15k
- UWUnited Way Incone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -8%
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.
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…
To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.
Empowering people while providing services and resources that impact individuals and communities.
Moc's mission is to empower families to achieve economic security by eliminating barriers and creating opportunities.
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.
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To mobilize and efficiently manage resources through partnerships and collaborations to help the low-income and at-risk populations in the hudson valley region to achieve greater self-sufficiency.
To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
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A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midcoast Maine Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Maine Housing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 18 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 YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Concepts Inc ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PENQUIS CAP INC ↗
- Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN KENNEBEC CHILD DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HANCOCK COMMUNITY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC ↗
- Who funds United Way Inc ↗
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 · Western Maine Community Action Inc · Maine Cancer Foundation · United Way Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Maine Children's Trust · Td Charitable Foundation · The Hudson Foundation · Fisher Charitable 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 Community Action Association Dba Maine Community Action Partnership 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.