· Public charity
Maine People's Resource Center
The MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER's mission is to unite maine people in their communities so that together they can identify common concerns and develop the skills, resources and experience necessary to represent themselves effectively in decision making forums and to win local, statewide, and national campaigns for social justice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $379k
- $250k+2 grants · $949k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $475,869 |
| MAINE LABOR CLIMATE COUNCIL | $472,869 |
| MOVEMENT CAMPAIGNS LLC | $120,025 |
| THE BLOC | $95,000 |
| MAINE AFL-CIO | $63,600 |
| PRESENTE MAINE | $50,211 |
| NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITATIVE | $50,211 |
| MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION | $19,000 |
| MAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION | $13,500 |
| CONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE | $8,985 |
| GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $8,500 |
| MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY | $5,285 |
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 (FY17–24, $541k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% 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 +150% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- LOLeague of Women Voters of Maine Education Fund Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $252k · revenue +235% · 46% of their budget
- MAMaine AFL-CIO7× · 2017–2024 · $243k · revenue +413%
- PMPresente Maine4× · 2021–2024 · $240k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- NCNautilus Centerone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -98%
- MFMAINERS FOR HOME CAREone grant, 2018 · $200k
- FOFEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUESone grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue -81%
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.
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,…
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…
To build a permanent and powerful social change movement in Maine, supported by a network of committed donors.
The League of Women Voters of Maine is a nonpartisan, grassroots political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public…
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…
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…
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 provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
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…
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…
ClimateWork Maine (CWM) is a private non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Maine that serves as a support network for businesses and business leaders that are taking action on climate change, to meet its challenges and to seize the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Center for Economic Policy and the most unlike its peers is Our Climate Common. 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.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 31 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 Nautilus Center ↗
- Who funds League of Women Voters of Maine Education Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds Presente Maine ↗
- Who funds NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Maine Equal Justice Partners ↗
- Who funds MAINERS FOR HOME CARE ↗
- Who funds MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE BLOC INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES ↗
- Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds Wabanaki Alliance ↗
- Who funds Maine Citizens for Clean Elections ↗
- Who funds CONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds Gateway Community Services Maine ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds RENEW NEW ENGLAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OUR CLIMATE COMMON ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE ↗
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: Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Initiativesinc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Onion Foundation · Hopewell Fund · John T Gorman Foundation · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine People's Alliance · Maine Equal Justice Partners
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 People's Resource Center 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.
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% 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.
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