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Maine People's Alliance

The mission of MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE is to create a world where everyone has what they need, contributes what they can, and no one is left behind.

$1.9M
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$1.3M
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.

Civil Rights$1.4MPublic Benefit$605kSocial Science$400kHuman Services$238kCrime & Legal$100kEnvironment$85kHealth$15kMembership Benefit$10k
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINERS FOR PAID LEAVE$1,250,000
REBUILD MAINE$390,000
MAINE CONSERVATION VOTERS$70,000
MAINE WOMENS LOBBY$50,000
WABANAKI ALLIANCE$45,000
NEW MAINERS ALLIANCE$45,000
MAINE AFL-CIO$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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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEW MAINERS ALLIANCE: $53k → 13%NEW MAINERS ALLIANCE: $45k → 13%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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$583k · 3 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$583k
$920k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

33%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • RM
    REBUILD MAINE
    2× · 2018–2022 · $430k
  • NM
    NEW MAINERS ALLIANCE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $98k · revenue -20% · 45% of their budget
  • WA
    Wabanaki Alliance
    2× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • NC
    Nautilus Center
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -98%
  • MF
    MAINERS FOR HOME CARE
    one grant, 2018 · $185k
  • MP
    MAINE PEOPLE PAC
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
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
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
2
Maine Donor Alliance

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

Civil Rights
3
Maine Conservation Alliance

Maine Conservation Alliance envisions a Maine where nature and people thrive through an inclusive, just democracy, a sustainable economy, and equitable access to nature's benefits - healthy climate, lands, air, and waters. We bring people…

Environment
4
Manufacturers Association of Maine

The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.

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5
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.

Crime & Legal
6
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
7
Mainers for Working Families

Mainers for working famlies advocates for good healthcare, fair taxes, and policies that will help maine families thrive.

—
8
EqualityMaine

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,…

Civil Rights
9
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
10
Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of 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…

Health
11
Maine Council on Aging

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…

Unclassified
12
Maine Citizens for Clean Elections

MCCE is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to ensure that Maine's campaign finance laws, elections, and government serve the public interest, both in principal and practice.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Service Employees Association Seiu Local 1989; the most unlike its peers is Mainers for Home Care. 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

9 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. 9 of the 16 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINERS FOR PAID LEAVE: $1,250,000 · OtherMAINERS FOR PAID LEAVEREBUILD MAINE: $430,000 · OtherREBUILD MAINENautilus Center: $400,000 · OtherNautilus CenterMAINERS FOR HOME CARE: $185,000 · OtherMAINERS FOR HOME CAREMAINE PEOPLE PAC: $125,000 · OtherMAINE EQUAL JUSTICE PROJECT: $100,000 · Other+8 more: $240,000 · Other+8 moreNEW MAINERS ALLIANCE: $98,000 · Human ServicesWabanaki Alliance: $55,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,730,000Human Services$98,000Arts & Culture$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAINERS FOR HOME CARE: $185,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMAINE EQUAL JUSTICE PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNEW MAINERS ALLIANCE: $98,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetFEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES: $70,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWabanaki Alliance: $55,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY: $50,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetMAINE SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION SEIU LOCAL 1989: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine AFL-CIO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 People's Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine People's Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    1report 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, FY20–25
    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 16 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 (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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