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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $122,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $945,065 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $823,065 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Migration Policy Institute | $50,000 |
| Maine People's Resource Center | $36,000 |
| Maine Center for Economic Policy | $36,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +119% since the first grant, against +78% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- MPMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE2× · 2017–2018 · $155k · revenue +8%
- MAMaine AFL-CIO5× · 2017–2023 · $153k · revenue +413%
- MCMAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY3× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CFCONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CAREone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue -60%
- PPROSPERITYMEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +78%
- MEMAINE EQUAL JUSTICE PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Maine Equal Justice is a nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity and equity for people in Maine.
The alliance is a collaborative of private employers and public trusts dedicated to lowering healthcare costs and improving quality. through collective and innovative strategies, alliance members drive the change they want to see in…
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.
Maine primary care association's mission is to champion and maximize the value of the statewide network of community health centers for the health and well-being of all maine people
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
The organization advocates for the creation and preservation of affordable housing so all people in maine have a place to call home.
To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.
We advocate for our members by influencing government policies, building community support for public education, expanding educational employees' rights, and promoting improvements in working conditions.
To formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise; limited, constitutional government; individual freedom; and traditional american values.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine People's Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Food and Medicine. 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 MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Maine AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Gateway Community Services Maine ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds CONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
- Who funds MAINE EQUAL JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RACE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds FOOD AND MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds CONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Maine Initiativesinc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine People's Resource Center · Community Catalyst Inc · Hopewell Fund · Impactassetsinc · Maine Center for Economic Policy · The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health
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 Equal Justice Partners 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.
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