· Public charity
Maine Justice Foundation
The mission of the MAINE JUSTICE FOUNDATION is to sustain, promote, and partner with legal aid providers and social justice organizations to inspire and support fairness and justice in maine.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $338k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT | $1,205,252 |
| PINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE | $605,482 |
| MAINE EQUAL JUSTICE PROJECT | $598,602 |
| LEGAL SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY | $503,219 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $469,812 |
| CUMBERLAND LEGAL AID CLINIC | $192,653 |
| PINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE | $145,800 |
| ME COMM ON PUBLIC DEFENSE SERVICES | $10,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| MAINE INSIDE OUT | $10,000 |
| LADDER TO THE MOON NETWORK | $10,000 |
| OUT MAINE | $7,142 |
| MABEL WADSWORTH CENTER | $7,142 |
| EQUALITY MAINE FOUNDATION | $7,142 |
| KINDLING COLLECTIVE | $7,142 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- PTPINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.8M · revenue +101%
- LSLEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +63%
- MEMaine Equal Justice Partners9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +44%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERSone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +0%
- MTMAINE TRANSGENDER NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
EqualityMaine works to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through political action, community building, education,…
The mission of the maine justice foundation is to sustain, promote, and partner with legal aid providers and social justice organizations to inspire and support fairness and justice in maine.
To promote and ensure workers' rights
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,…
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…
Provide low-income defendants assistance in obtaining pretrial release and supervision.
MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.
To build a permanent and powerful social change movement in Maine, supported by a network of committed donors.
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.
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…
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services for Maine Elders Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Association of Social Workers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 PINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Equal Justice Partners ↗
- Who funds VLP Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE INSIDE OUT ↗
- Who funds LADDER TO THE MOON NETWORK ↗
- Who funds OUT Maine ↗
- Who funds EqualityMaine Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS ↗
- Who funds MAINE TRANSGENDER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NOPI INC ↗
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 · John T Gorman Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Onion Foundation · Maine Womens Fund · The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Gill 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 Justice Foundation 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.
- Nopi Inc — 14% of income from government
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.