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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition
To improve the legal, social and economic conditions experienced by maine's immigrants enhancing their lives while strengthening maine through advocacy, information sharing and collaboration both through and among our member organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $1,391,366 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,663,221 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $271,855 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
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $264k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $536k
- $250k+1 grant · $583k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $583,116 |
| Individual grant recipient | $164,522 |
| YMCA OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $158,911 |
| PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $150,000 |
| AFGHAN COMMUNITY OF MAINE | $62,500 |
| KHMER MAINE | $42,904 |
| PRESENTE MAINE | $37,120 |
| IN HER PRESENCE | $34,400 |
| HOPE ACTS | $32,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,936 |
| FURNITURE FRIENDS | $26,463 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,248 |
| RWANDESE COMMUNITY OF MAINE | $14,500 |
| NEAAO | $14,246 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 5% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $358k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2022–2024 · $780k
- ACAngolan Community Association of Maine3× · 2019–2021 · $340k
- ACAFGHAN COMMUNITY OF MAINE5× · 2020–2024 · $332k · 63% of their budget
Funded once
- CCOMMONSPACEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue +44%
- YOYMCA OF GREATER PORTLANDone grant, 2023 · $353k
- CCCambodian Community Association of Maineone grant, 2021 · $53k
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.
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.
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…
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.
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…
SBCA provides dynamic, self- envisioned programs to support the immigrant and refugee community.
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
MANA is an immigrant-led organization that promotes social & personal empowerment of immigrants in Maine through raising awareness of individual and collective trauma and how they affect our lives, expanding people's resilience building…
The Maine Jewish Film Festival celebrates filmmakinginspiring conversation through the lens of global Jewish experience. Innovative programming invites a diverse statewide audience into the dialogue. Many of our programs include guest…
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presente Maine and the most unlike its peers is Al Badoo Community Association of Maine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 38 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 COMMONSPACE ↗
- Who funds AFGHAN COMMUNITY OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds Khmer Maine ↗
- Who funds Hope Acts ↗
- Who funds In Her Presence ↗
- Who funds Presente Maine ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds AL BADOO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds AK HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
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 · United Way Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Southern Maine Agency on Aging · Morse Hill Trust · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · The Evergreen Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable 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 Immigrants' Rights Coalition 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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