Maine · Public charity
Maine Equal Justice Partners
Maine Equal Justice is a nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity and equity for people in Maine.
- $945k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $122k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $36,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Maine Equal Justice Partners funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $122k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $86k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $46k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $224k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $31k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $21k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $48k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $248k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine People's Alliance | $155,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Maine AFL-CIO | $153,365 | 5 | 13% |
| Maine Center for Economic Policy | $94,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Maine People's Resource Center | $69,333 | 2 | 1% |
| University of Maine System Inc | $62,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Migration Policy Institute | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gateway Community Services Maine | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Preble Street | $34,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Consumers for Affordable Health Care | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Maine Workers Center | $27,500 | 2 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine People's Alliance | $155,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Maine AFL-CIO | $153,365 | 5 | 13% |
| Maine Center for Economic Policy | $94,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Maine People's Resource Center | $69,333 | 2 | 1% |
| University of Maine System Inc | $62,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Migration Policy Institute | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gateway Community Services Maine | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Preble Street | $34,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Consumers for Affordable Health Care | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Maine Workers Center | $27,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Prosperityme | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Maine Equal Justice Project | $19,500 | 1 | 1% |
| New Mainers Public Health Initiative | $16,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Race Forward | $13,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Food and Medicine | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| University of Maine School of Law Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation | $6,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Maine Council on Aging | $6,500 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maine Equal Justice Partners supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Maine Equal Justice Partners
- How much does Maine Equal Justice Partners give?
- Maine Equal Justice Partners reported 3 itemized grants totaling $122,000, out of $945,065 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Maine Equal Justice Partners fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (28%), Employment (21%), Social Science (11%).
- Who are Maine Equal Justice Partners's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Maine People's Alliance ($155k), Maine AFL-CIO ($153k), Maine Center for Economic Policy ($95k).
- Does Maine Equal Justice Partners fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Equal Justice Partners?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Maine Initiativesinc, Maine Health Access Foundation Inc.
- Where is Maine Equal Justice Partners based?
- Maine Equal Justice Partners is based in ME.
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