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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.

$852k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$166k
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 2025.

Human Services$2.4MHousing & Shelter$1.0MCrime & Legal$215kPhilanthropy$145kCommunity Improvement$129kHealth$94kEducation$24k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $803,826, the rows itemized in this filing. The $852,031 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,205 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $616k
$57,072
Median grant
1
States reached
$817k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $114k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $104k → 9%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $111k → 11%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $106k → 13%WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $106k → 14%PENQUIS CAP INC: $129k → 15%York County Community Action Corp: $95k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $38k → 9%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50k → 11%Waldo Community Action Agency: $58k → 13%WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $88k → 14%PENQUIS CAP INC: $40k → 15%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $133k → 7%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $75k → 9%Midcoast Maine Community Action: $38k → 9%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $25k → 11%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $57k → 13%Western Maine Community Action: $58k → 14%Penquis CAP Inc: $39k → 15%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $119k → 7%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $70k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $22k → 9%Downeast Community Partners: $20k → 11%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION: $124k → 12%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $20k → 13%WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $40k → 14%PENQUIS CAP INC: $35k → 15%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $24k → 7%York County Community Action Corp: $60k → 9%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20k → 11%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $66k → 12%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $20k → 13%Western Maine Community Action: $40k → 14%PENQUIS CAP INC: $30k → 15%York County Community Action Corp: $60k → 9%Downeast Community Partners: $20k → 11%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION: $43k → 12%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $20k → 13%Western Maine Community Action: $40k → 14%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $58k → 9%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $38k → 12%Waldo Community Action Agency: $20k → 13%WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $40k → 14%Penquis CAP Inc: $20k → 15%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $25k → 9%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $20k → 12%Waldo Community Action Agency: $20k → 13%WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $25k → 14%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 15 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$3.9M
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
0%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • YC
    YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP
    8× · 2017–2025 · $557k · revenue +98%
  • WM
    WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION CORP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $447k · revenue +16%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CONCEPTS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $354k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • WH
    Washington Hancock Community Agency
    one grant, 2017 · $59k
  • MH
    MAINE HOUSING
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • UW
    United Way of Greater Portland
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -8%
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
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
2
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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3
Making Opportunity Count Inc

Moc's mission is to empower families to achieve economic security by eliminating barriers and creating opportunities.

Human Services
4
West Central Minnesota Communities Action Inc

Empowering people while providing services and resources that impact individuals and communities.

Community Improvement
5
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
6
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
7
Kennebec Valley Mental Health Cente D/B/a Kennebec Behavioral Health

The mission of kennebec behavioral health is to promote the well-being of children, adults and familiies who experience mental illness, emotional or developmental difficulties, or behavioral challenges.

Health
8
Westchester Community Opportunity Program Inc

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.

Community Improvement
9
Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence

The maine coalition to end domestic violence (mcedv) mobilizes collaborative community action with and on behalf of a statewide network of domestic violence resource centers to ensure that all people affected by domestic abuse and violence…

Human Services
10
Children's Friend and Service

The mission of children's friend and service (the organization) is to be the innovative leader in improving the well-being and healthy development of rhode island's most vulnerable young children. they accomplish this by providing flexible…

Human Services
11
Family Planning Association of Maine Inc

To ensure that all maine people have access to high-quality, affordable reproductive health care, comprehensive sexual health education, and the right to control their reproductive lives.

Health
12
Kootasca Community Action Inc

The mission of KOOTASCA Community Action, Inc. is "Building Community to End Poverty." This is done by helping low income people build assets, providing high quality early childhood education, and engaging the community through…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midcoast Maine Community Action; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $557,420 · Human ServicesYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPWESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $446,559 · Human ServicesWESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION CORPKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION: $349,052 · Human ServicesKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTIONWALDO COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $326,328 · Human ServicesWALDO COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYPENQUIS CAP INC: $312,268 · Human ServicesPENQUIS CAP INCTHE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $275,850 · Human ServicesTHE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCEDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $259,740 · Human ServicesDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERSMIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $207,437 · Human ServicesMIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTIONCOMMUNITY CONCEPTS INC: $353,650 · OtherCOMMUNITY CONCEPTS…ANDROSCOGGIN HEAD START & CHILD CAR: $149,528 · OtherANDROSCOGGIN HEAD …SOUTHERN KENNEBEC CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $105,785 · OtherSOUTHERN KENNEBEC …Washington Hancock Community Agency: $58,750 · OtherWashington Hancock…AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $332,062 · Crime & LegalAROOSTOOK…JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $139,156 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Portland: $5,900 · PhilanthropyMAINEHEALTH: $64,933 · HealthWABANAKI PUBLIC HEALTH & WELLNESS: $28,623 · HealthMAINE HOUSING: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$2,734,654Other$667,713Crime & Legal$332,062Philanthropy$145,056Health$93,556Housing & Shelter$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $557,420 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $446,559 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONCEPTS INC: $353,650 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION: $349,052 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $332,062 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWALDO COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $326,328 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPENQUIS CAP INC: $312,268 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $275,850 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $259,740 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $207,437 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetANDROSCOGGIN HEAD START & CHILD CAR: $149,528 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $139,156 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTHERN KENNEBEC CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $105,785 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMAINEHEALTH: $64,933 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Hancock Community Agency: $58,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWABANAKI PUBLIC HEALTH & WELLNESS: $28,623 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Portland: $5,900 over 1y, 0.1% 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…John T Gorman Foundat…Maine Health Access F…Western Maine Communi…Maine Cancer Foundati…United Way IncStephen & Tabitha Kin…Maine Children's TrustTd Charitable Foundat…The Hudson FoundationFisher Charitable Fou…Elmina B Sewall Found…
Maine Community Foundation IncME28.6× affinity12 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 · 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

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 Community Action Association Dba Maine Community Action Partnership funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Community Action Association Dba Maine Community Action Partnership. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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