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Maine Initiativesinc

Maine initiatives, a fund for change, cultivates social, economic, and environmental justice through grants and other support to grassroots organizations in maine communities.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Civil Rights$1.8MHuman Services$1.7MArts & Culture$942kCommunity Improvement$917kCrime & Legal$331kHealth$294kYouth Development$291kEmployment$275kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 61 grants below total $1,621,676 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,682,536 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,860 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 $10k18 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $795k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $711k
$14,643
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESENTE MAINE$124,500
MAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION$105,000
KHMER MAINE$85,000
MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION$75,000
SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$55,000
MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$55,000
IN HER PRESENCE$55,000
CAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT$55,000
RESOURCES FOR ORGANIZING &$51,419
NIWESKOK$50,000
MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RE$45,000
INDIGO ARTS ALLIANCE$45,000
YOUTH LED JUSTICE$45,000
FOOD FOR ALL SERVICES$45,000
HEALTHY ACADIA$45,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 9%WABANAKI WOMEN'S COALITION: $30k → 13%SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $55k → 13%WABANAKI WOMEN'S COALITION: $20k → 13%WABANAKI WOMEN'S COALITION: $10k → 13%KHMER MAINE: $85k → 7%SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $37k → 13%NEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN: $45k → 7%NEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN: $20k → 7%NEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN: $13k → 7%SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $28k → 13%NEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN: $10k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICE: $25k → 13%MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICE: $23k → 13%SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $18k → 13%SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $18k → 13%SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%AK HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $15k → 13%MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICE: $14k → 13%AK HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $13k → 13%SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $11k → 13%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $216k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $210k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $147k → 7%PRESENTE MAINE: $125k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $105k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $103k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $75k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $45k → 7%FOOD FOR ALL SERVICES: $45k → 7%HOPE ACTS: $30k → 7%GOOD MEDICINE COLLECTIVE: $30k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $29k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $25k → 7%HOPE ACTS: $25k → 7%PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER: $23k → 7%GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 7%GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 7%GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $16k → 7%GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 7%PRESENTE MAINE: $15k → 7%PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANT ACCESS NETWORK: $15k → 7%GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME: $15k → 7%PRESENTE MAINE: $13k → 7%GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME: $13k → 7%PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER: $11k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $11k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.8M · 74 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
23

Total granted

$6.8M
$528k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+8%

Still filing today

82%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • MI
    MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $866k · revenue ×24 · 41% of their budget
  • RF
    Resources for Organizing and Social Change
    8× · 2017–2024 · $743k · revenue +15% · 27% of their budget
  • MI
    MAINE INSIDE OUT
    6× · 2017–2023 · $284k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • WY
    WABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +8%
  • BL
    BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -57%
  • CO
    City of Portland
    one grant, 2021 · $39k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment
2
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

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,…

Education
3
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

4
Maine Access Points

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.

Health
5
Maine Media College

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…

6
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
7
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
8
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
9
Maine & Company

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…

10
Maine Donor Alliance

To build a permanent and powerful social change movement in Maine, supported by a network of committed donors.

Civil Rights
11
Fork Food Lab

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,…

Environment
12
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative

The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services and the most unlike its peers is Food for All Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Food PantriesSenior Housing and CareMaine Independent SchoolsChild Development and Famil…Early Childhood Development…Maine Advocacy & Capacity B…Disability & Behavioral Hea…Youth Sports ProgramsSenior Affordable HousingPerforming Arts Organizatio…Youth Development Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%15%<5yr12%18%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr17%19%35–55yr17%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%13%<5yr12%41%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr17%6%35–55yr17%2%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
5/115
the rest of the field
10%
433/4,288

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

97 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 117 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/97
Grantees still filing
61/97
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $866,331 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITIO…Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine — $191,020 · Human ServicesSomali Bantu Community Associatio…Presente Maine — $152,000 · Human ServicesPresente MaineNEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATION — $105,860 · Human ServicesPROSPERITYME — $99,022 · Human ServicesMaine Access Immigrant Network — $97,127 · Human ServicesSUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS RELIEF ORGANIZATION — $87,860 · Human ServicesKhmer Maine — $85,000 · Human ServicesGateway Community Services Maine — $81,370 · Human ServicesFURNITURE FRIENDS — $78,360 · Human Services+12 more — $490,047 · Human Services+12 moreResources for Organizing and Social Change — $743,449 · OtherResources for Organizing and Socia…Hand in Hand Mano en Mano — $200,339 · OtherHand in Hand Mano en ManoMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $107,500 · Other+53 more — $1,377,326 · Other+53 moreMAINE INSIDE OUT — $283,879 · Arts & CultureMAINE INSIDE OUTMAINE-WABANAKI REACH — $172,360 · Arts & CultureMAINE-WABANAKI REACHIndigo Arts Alliance — $147,554 · Arts & CultureIndigo Arts AllianceCAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT — $132,860 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL AREA NEW MAI…WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION — $115,360 · Arts & CultureWABANAKI CULTURAL PR…Wabanaki Alliance — $100,000 · Arts & CultureWabanaki AllianceINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER — $82,166 · Arts & CultureINTERCULTURAL COMMUN…SPACE Gallery — $81,220 · Arts & CultureSPACE GalleryWHYHUNGER INC — $75,360 · Arts & CultureBOMAZEEN LAND TRUST — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $176,182 · Arts & Culture+7 moreMAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION — $217,860 · Community ImprovementMAINE COMMUN…THE THIRD PLACE INC — $167,143 · Community ImprovementTHE THIRD PL…In Her Presence — $140,560 · Community ImprovementIn Her Prese…Maine Association for New Americans — $138,787 · Community ImprovementMaine Associ…CREATIVE PORTLAND CORPORATION — $70,660 · Community ImprovementCREATIVE POR…COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $32,500 · Community ImprovementLAND IN COMMON INC — $30,000 · Community Improvement+4 more — $52,343 · Community Improvement+4 moreMAINE PRISONER ADVOCACY COALITION — $172,000 · Crime & LegalMaine Equal Justice Partners — $67,813 · Crime & LegalYOUTH-LED JUSTICE — $45,000 · Crime & LegalWounded Healers International Inc — $30,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $5,012 · Crime & LegalNEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE — $117,860 · HealthHEALTHY ACADIA — $75,000 · HealthWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC — $36,000 · HealthCross Cultural Community Services — $22,500 · Health+1 more — $5,516 · HealthSOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER — $242,228 · Employment
Human Services$2,333,997Other$2,428,614Arts & Culture$1,441,941Community Improvement$849,853Crime & Legal$319,825Health$256,876Employment$242,228

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $866,331 over 7y, 41% of budgetResources for Organizing and Social Change — $743,449 over 8y, 27% of budgetMAINE INSIDE OUT — $283,879 over 6y, 23% of budgetSOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER — $242,228 over 6y, 24% of budgetMAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION — $217,860 over 6y, 16% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano — $200,339 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSomali Bantu Community Association of Maine — $191,020 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetMAINE-WABANAKI REACH — $172,360 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetMAINE PRISONER ADVOCACY COALITION — $172,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetTHE THIRD PLACE INC — $167,143 over 3y, 73% of budgetPresente Maine — $152,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetIndigo Arts Alliance — $147,554 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetIn Her Presence — $140,560 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetMaine Association for New Americans — $138,787 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT — $132,860 over 4y, 26% of budgetNEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE — $117,860 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetWABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION — $115,360 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $107,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATION — $105,860 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetWabanaki Alliance — $100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPROSPERITYME — $99,022 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMaine Access Immigrant Network — $97,127 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetSUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS RELIEF ORGANIZATION — $87,860 over 5y, 37% of budgetKhmer Maine — $85,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER — $82,166 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetGateway Community Services Maine — $81,370 over 5y, 12% of budgetSPACE Gallery — $81,220 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFURNITURE FRIENDS — $78,360 over 3y, 15% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $75,360 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHope Acts — $75,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetWABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBOMAZEEN LAND TRUST — $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHEALTHY ACADIA — $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLADDER TO THE MOON NETWORK — $72,860 over 5y, 22% of budgetCREATIVE PORTLAND CORPORATION — $70,660 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners — $67,813 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $66,560 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES — $61,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWABANAKI WOMENS COALITION INC — $60,460 over 3y, 13% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC — $51,360 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNiweskok — $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFour Directions Development Corporation — $45,860 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetYOUTH-LED JUSTICE — $45,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCumberland County Food Security Council — $45,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING — $45,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER — $45,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetAbbe Museum — $40,360 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC — $36,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME133.9× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Onion Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · United Way Inc · Quimby Family Foundation · Maine Humanities Council · Maine Womens Fund · Haymarket People's Fund Inc

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 Initiativesinc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 58%
  • Cooperative Development Institute Inc58% of income from government
  • Resist Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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