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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$476k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Civil Rights$1.4MEnvironment$760kPublic Benefit$738kHuman Services$350kHealth$333kCrime & Legal$227kEducation$142kSocial Science$89kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $379k
  • $250k+2 grants · $949k
$50,211
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE BLOC: $95k → 12%PRESENTE MAINE: $114k → 7%PRESENTE MAINE: $50k → 7%PRESENTE MAINE: $50k → 7%PRESENTE MAINE: $25k → 7%GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $14k → 7%GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13k → 7%GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $9k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $67k → 7%GR PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CTR: $55k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $19k → 7%UNIFIED ASIAN COMMUNITIES: $15k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $15k → 7%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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 15 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +150% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$2.0M
$925k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+150%
0%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 ServicesEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • LO
    League of Women Voters of Maine Education Fund Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $252k · revenue +235% · 46% of their budget
  • MA
    Maine AFL-CIO
    7× · 2017–2024 · $243k · revenue +413%
  • PM
    Presente Maine
    4× · 2021–2024 · $240k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • NC
    Nautilus Center
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -98%
  • MF
    MAINERS FOR HOME CARE
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES
    one grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue -81%
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 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
3
League of Women Voters of Maine

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…

—
4
Maine Donor Alliance

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

Civil Rights
5
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
6
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
7
Maine Access Immigrant Network

MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.

Human Services
8
Maine GearShare

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

Recreation & Sports
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 Federation of Farmers Markets

MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to…

Food & Nutrition
11
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
12
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Center for Economic Policy; the most unlike its peers is The Bloc Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $475,869 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAINE LABOR CLIMATE COUNCIL: $472,869 · OtherMAINE LABOR CLIMATE COUNCILNautilus Center: $400,000 · OtherNautilus CenterLeague of Women Voters of Maine Education Fund Inc: $251,987 · OtherLeague of Women Voters of Maine Education Fund IncMaine AFL-CIO: $242,600 · OtherMaine AFL-CIOMAINERS FOR HOME CARE: $200,000 · OtherMAINERS FOR HOME CAREMOVEMENT CAMPAIGNS LLC: $120,025 · OtherFEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES: $90,000 · OtherMAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY: $88,570 · Other+4 more: $204,856 · Other+4 morePresente Maine: $239,547 · Human ServicesPresente MaineMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $116,072 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRAN…THE BLOC INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLOC INCGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $55,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PORTLA…Gateway Community Services Maine: $35,500 · Human ServicesGateway Commun…NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE: $236,547 · HealthNEW MAINE…CONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $60,970 · HealthCONSUMERS…Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $35,000 · HealthPlanned P…Maine Equal Justice Partners: $226,639 · Crime & LegalMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $176,660 · EnvironmentRENEW NEW ENGLAND ALLIANCE: $15,000 · EnvironmentOUR CLIMATE COMMON: $10,874 · EnvironmentNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentMAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION: $124,000 · Community ImprovementMAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND: $25,620 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $8,205 · Community ImprovementWabanaki Alliance: $76,270 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT: $14,675 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,546,776Human Services$541,119Health$332,517Crime & Legal$226,639Environment$212,534Community Improvement$157,825Arts & Culture$90,945

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 budgetLeague of Women Voters of Maine Education Fund Inc: $251,987 over 5y, 46% of budgetMaine AFL-CIO: $242,600 over 7y, 10% of budgetPresente Maine: $239,547 over 4y, 11% of budgetNEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE: $236,547 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners: $226,639 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetMAINERS FOR HOME CARE: $200,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $176,660 over 5y, 11% of budgetMAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION: $124,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $116,072 over 4y, 13% of budgetFEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES: $90,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY: $88,570 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWabanaki Alliance: $76,270 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetMaine Citizens for Clean Elections: $71,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetCONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $60,970 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $55,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $47,350 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGateway Community Services Maine: $35,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND: $25,620 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetRENEW NEW ENGLAND ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT: $14,675 over 1y, 14% of budgetOUR CLIMATE COMMON: $10,874 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $8,205 over 1y, 0.5% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Elmina B Sewall Found…Maine Community Found…Maine InitiativesincMaine Health Access F…Good Shepherd Food Ba…Onion FoundationHopewell FundJohn T Gorman Foundat…Haymarket People's Fu…Sam L Cohen FoundationMaine People's Allian…Maine Equal Justice P…
Elmina B Sewall FoundationME40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Resource Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine People's Resource Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Maine People's Resource Center?

Find your warmest path to Maine People's Resource Center through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home