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Maine Hospital Association Inc at a glance

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Maine Hospital Association Inc

The mission of the Maine Hospital Association is to provide leadership through advocacy, information and education, to support its members in fulfilling their mission to improve the health of their patients and communities they serve.

$10k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$10k
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 2022.

Health$623kPublic Safety & Disaster$251k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Friends of Maine Hospitals$10,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Mid Coast Hospital: $16k → 7%York Hospital: $16k → 9%Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital: $16k → 11%MaineGeneral Medical Center: $55k → 12%Rumford Hospital: $16k → 13%Central Maine Medical Center: $16k → 13%Penobscot Valley Hospital: $16k → 15%Northern Light Mayo Hospital: $16k → 15%Northern Light AR Gould Hospital: $16k → 15%Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital: $16k → 15%Bridgton Hospital: $16k → 7%Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital: $16k → 11%Friends of Maine Hospitals: $10k → 12%Northern Light Charles A Dean Hospital: $16k → 15%Cary Medical Center: $39k → 15%MaineHealth: $311k → 7%Friends of Maine Hospitals: $10k → 12%Cary Medical Center: $16k → 15%MaineHealth: $126k → 7%Friends of Maine Hospitals: $10k → 12%Northern Maine Medical Center: $16k → 15%Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $16k → 7%Friends of Maine Hospitals: $10k → 12%Friends of Maine Hospitals: $10k → 12%Friends of Maine Hospitals: $10k → 12%Northern Light Inland Hospital: $16k → 12%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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$552k · 3 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
18

Total granted

$552k
$322k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+32%

Still filing today

33%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    2× · 2020–2021 · $437k · revenue +87%
  • FO
    Friends of Maine Hospitals
    6× · 2017–2022 · $60k
  • CM
    Cary Medical Center
    2× · 2020–2021 · $55k

Funded once

  • MM
    MaineGeneral Medical Center
    one grant, 2020 · $55k
  • RH
    Rumford Hospital
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +22%
  • NL
    Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +48%
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
Lakewood Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood

Lakewood d/b/a Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood is a 105 bed long-term care facility that provides skilled, dementia and long-term nursing care.

Health
2
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
3
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
4
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
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5
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health

EMHS d/b/a Northern Light Health, a supporting organization for healthcare affiliates, maintains and improves the health and well-being of the people of Maine through a well-organized network of local health care providers who together…

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6
Vna Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice

VNA Home Health & Hospice d/b/a Northern Light Home Care & Hospice provides clinically excellent, compassionate home health and hospice care to individuals and families

Health
7
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
8
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
9
Northern Light Health Foundation

Raise & manage funds for exempt organizations

Health
10
Caldwell Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide safe, effective, compassionate care and to promote healthy lifestyles to our community.

Health
11
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
12
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital; the most unlike its peers is York Hospital. 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

18 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. 18 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MaineHealth: $437,212 · HealthMaineHealth+16 more: $251,728 · Health+16 moreFriends of Maine Hospitals: $60,000 · OtherFriends of Maine Hospit…MaineGeneral Medical Center: $54,651 · OtherMaineGeneral Medical Ce…Cary Medical Center: $54,651 · OtherCary Medical CenterMid Coast Hospital: $15,733 · OtherMid Coast Hospital
Health$688,940Other$185,035

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaineHealth: $437,212 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRumford Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Light Mayo Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBridgton Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid Coast Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYork Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Light Blue Hill Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Light Inland Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Light Mercy Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Light Maine Coast Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Maine Medical Center: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Light Charles A Dean Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Light AR Gould Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPenobscot Valley Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Light Acadia Hospital: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Maine Medical Center: $15,733 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Hospital Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Hospital Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 21 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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