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Maine Council on Aging

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.

$647k
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $336k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $301k
$9,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$466k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
In Her Presence$15,720
Why Hunger$15,500
Maine Access Immigrant Net$15,000
EQME Foundation$12,500
Equality Maine$12,500
Age Friendly Saco V$12,452
United Way of Greater Nashua$12,400
Catholic Charities Maine$12,190
Senior Solutions V$12,000
Stone Soup Caf$10,700
Heineberg Community Senior$10,234
Age Well VT$10,000
Victory Women of Vision$10,000
NH Hunger Solutions$10,000
Turning Point Recovery Center$10,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Brattleboro Area Adult Day: $9k → 11%Org for Refugee Immigrant: $9k → 7%Ossipee Concerned Citizens: $6k → 9%Grafton County Senior Citizen: $10k → 10%Spectrum Generations V: $5k → 12%Maine Highlands Senior Center: $7k → 15%Brockton Area Multi Services: $10k → 8%Victory Women of Vision: $10k → 7%Neighbors Driving Neighbors: $10k → 12%Aroostook Agency on Aging V: $8k → 15%Thompson Senior Center: $10k → 9%Age Well VT: $10k → 10%Southern Maine Agency Aging: $10k → 9%Island Connections V: $6k → 11%Age Friendly Saco V: $12k → 9%Maine Access Immigrant Net: $15k → 7%EQME Foundation: $13k → 7%Harpswell at Home: $8k → 7%New England Arab American Org: $8k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Eastern Area Agency on Aging

It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.

Human Services
2
Maine Council on Aging

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…

Unclassified
3
Bennington County Meals Program

Provide quality, nutritious and creative meals to individuals age sixty years and older; as well as, disabled residents of Bennington County, Vermont. This is accomplished through a community meal program and home deliveries to those…

Food & Nutrition
4
Vermont Association of Senior Centers and Meal Providers

To cultivate a unified voice and dynamic network of senior centers, meal providers, and professionals committed to excellence and responsive to the needs of the states growing older population.

Human Services
5
Council On Aging & Human Services

Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.

Human Services
6
Meals on Wheels of Lamoille County Inc

Meals on Wheels of Lamoille Countys mission is to improve health and enhance the quality of life for our community elders by providing nutrition meals and social interaction.

Community Improvement
7
Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging Inc

We support people age 60 and older persons with disabilities in their efforts to remain active healthy, financially secure, and in control of their own lives. The Agency connects people and the services they they need to live independently…

Human Services
8
Brattleboro Senior Meals Inc

The mission of brattleboro senior meals inc is to maintain the quality of life for the senior citizens in the community by providing high quality congregate and home-delivered meals to accommodate nutritional needs in an atmosphere that…

Food & Nutrition
9
Hampshire County Committee on Aging

To improve the quality of life for seniors by providing nutritious meals to senior citizens, in-home care services to medicaid eligible & private pay citizens and providing transportation.

Human Services
10
Our Neighbors' Table Inc

The Organization is committed to establishing a community that provides for the whole person with nourishing food, kindness and dignity. The Organization provides food directly to those experiencing food insecurity while also directing the…

Human Services
11
Marinette County Committee on Aging Inc

Our mission at Marinette County Elderly Services is to assist older persons in maintaining a longer, healthier, and more fulfilled life.

Human Services
12
Gibson Center for Senior Services Inc

The organization provides nutrition, transportation, and educational and social programs to senior citizens in northern carroll county of new hampshire.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lynn Senior Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Neighbors Driving Neighbors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Support ServicesUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Food Pantries & AssistanceLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Community Health CentersLgbtq+ Community CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …United Way FederationsAffordable Housing Developm…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Jewish Community Federations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,495

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
20/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EqualityMaine Foundation — $25,000 · Human ServicesEqualityMaine FoundationMaine Access Immigrant Network — $15,000 · Human ServicesMaine Access Immigrant NetworkAGE FRIENDLY SACO — $12,452 · Human ServicesAGE FRIENDLY SACOCatholic Charities Maine — $12,190 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities MaineWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING — $10,000 · Human ServicesBROCKTON AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesAGE WELL INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGrafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $10,000 · Human ServicesVICTORY WOMEN OF VISION — $10,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS DRIVING NEIGHBORS — $9,998 · Human ServicesBRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES — $9,367 · Human ServicesORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND — $8,500 · Human ServicesHARPSWELL AGING AT HOME — $8,250 · Human ServicesNEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATION — $7,500 · Human ServicesAroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc — $7,500 · Human ServicesMAINE HIGHLANDS SENIOR CENTER — $6,764 · Human Services+3 more — $17,120 · Human Services+3 moreCOUNCIL ON AGING FOR SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT INC — $12,000 · OtherST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY — $10,000 · OtherUNITARIAN CHURCH OF MONTEPLIER — $10,000 · OtherMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program — $10,000 · OtherTown of Merrimac COA — $10,000 · OtherHOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $9,822 · OtherTown of Danforth — $9,240 · OtherRICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC — $9,000 · OtherHELPING AND NURTURING DIVERSE SENIORS — $8,805 · OtherBERWICK PARKS AND RECREATION DEPT — $8,750 · OtherHEALTHY PENINSULA — $8,416 · OtherGREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC — $8,300 · OtherTOWN OF NORTH ANDOVER — $8,240 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC — $8,100 · OtherNEIGHBORS OF NORTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY — $7,805 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHUA INC — $12,400 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE HUNGER SOLUTIONS INC — $10,000 · OtherBRATTLEBORO HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $9,900 · OtherCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY — $9,720 · OtherSPIRITUAL CARE SERVICES OF MAINE — $8,650 · OtherAFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC — $8,000 · Other+6 more — $35,480 · Other+6 moreStone Soup Cafe Inc — $10,700 · Food & NutritionStone Soup C…MILL CITY GROWS INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionMILL CITY GR…THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC — $8,700 · Food & NutritionTHREE SISTER…SHALOM FOOD PANTRY INC — $8,500 · Food & NutritionSHALOM FOOD …SACO MEALS PROGRAM — $7,500 · Food & NutritionSACO MEALS P…Table of Plenty — $6,400 · Food & NutritionTable of Ple…OXFORD HILLS FOOD PANTRY OXFORD HILLS FOOD PANTRY — $6,112 · Food & NutritionOXFORD HILLS…FAREGROUND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC — $6,000 · Food & NutritionFAREGROUND C…Maine Federation of Farmers Markets — $5,500 · Food & NutritionMaine Federa…Turning Point Recovery Center of Springfield VT Inc — $10,000 · HealthTurning P…MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $10,000 · HealthMOUNT DES…HEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT INC — $9,250 · HealthHEALTHY I…VNA at HCS Inc — $9,000 · HealthVNA at HC…WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING — $7,000 · HealthWOMEN FOR…Cross Cultural Community Services — $5,650 · HealthCross Cul…In Her Presence — $15,720 · Community ImprovementChittenden County Senior Citizens Alliance Inc — $10,234 · Community ImprovementTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $7,000 · Community ImprovementBRIDGTON COMMUNITY CENTER — $6,918 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS — $9,500 · EnvironmentWHYHUNGER INC — $15,500 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$199,641Other$232,628Food & Nutrition$69,412Health$50,900Community Improvement$49,872Environment$19,500Arts & Culture$15,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEqualityMaine Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetIn Her Presence — $15,720 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $15,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Access Immigrant Network — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAGE FRIENDLY SACO — $12,452 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHUA INC — $12,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine — $12,190 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING FOR SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStone Soup Cafe Inc — $10,700 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetChittenden County Senior Citizens Alliance Inc — $10,234 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROCKTON AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point Recovery Center of Springfield VT Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAGE WELL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGrafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE HUNGER SOLUTIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORY WOMEN OF VISION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEIGHBORS DRIVING NEIGHBORS — $9,998 over 1y, 16% of budgetBRATTLEBORO HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $9,900 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $9,822 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY — $9,720 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS — $9,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBRATTLEBORO AREA ADULT DAY SERVICES — $9,367 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT INC — $9,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVNA at HCS Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING AND NURTURING DIVERSE SENIORS — $8,805 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC — $8,700 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSPIRITUAL CARE SERVICES OF MAINE — $8,650 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND — $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHALOM FOOD PANTRY INC — $8,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHEALTHY PENINSULA — $8,416 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC — $8,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARPSWELL AGING AT HOME — $8,250 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC — $8,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATION — $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSACO MEALS PROGRAM — $7,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetAroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING — $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Agnes M Lindsay TrustPoint32health Foundat…John T Gorman Foundat…Harvard Pilgrim Healt…Maine Health Access F…Bangor Savings Bank F…Good Shepherd Food Ba…Elmina B Sewall Found…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Meals on Wheels Ameri…Sam L Cohen Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME48.9× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Point32health Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Meals on Wheels America · Sam L Cohen 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 Council on Aging 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Good Samaritan Haven Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Stone Soup Cafe Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Turning Point Recovery Center of Springfield Vt Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Housing Opportunities Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Richford Health Center Inc — 19% of income from government
  • African Cultural Services Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
  • Three Sisters Garden Project Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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