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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Regional Enviro Council$10,000
Town of Merrimac COA$10,000
Urban Farming Institute$10,000
Grafton County Senior Citizen$10,000
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 (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 its 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
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 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
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
Council On Aging & Human Services

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

Human Services
5
Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc

The Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging exists to be a community force in creating and sustaining opportunities for elders and caregivers in our region to help assure that elders are able to maintain maximum independence and quality of…

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
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
8
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
9
Meals for Seniors Inc

Their mission is to enable the senior citizens of north tillamook county to continue living independently in their own homes by providing access to nutritious meals and social occasions.

Food & Nutrition
10
White River Council on Aging

White River Council on Aging invites older adults in the Upper Valley to age well through food, friendship, participation, and purpose.

Human Services
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lynn Senior Services Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 70 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
23/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesVICTORY WOMEN OF VISION: $10,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $10,000 · Human ServicesBROCKTON AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGrafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesAGE WELL INC: $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 · OtherMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $10,000 · OtherUNITARIAN CHURCH OF MONTEPLIER: $10,000 · OtherTown of Merrimac COA: $10,000 · OtherST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTurning Point Recovery Center of Springfield VT Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE HUNGER SOLUTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVICTORY WOMEN OF VISION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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 budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROCKTON AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAGE WELL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetVNA at HCS Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetAroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACO MEALS PROGRAM: $7,500 over 1y, 15% 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
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…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

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 Council on Aging funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Council on Aging. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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