· Public charity
Maine Space Grant Consortium
Our mission is to: improve our affiliates' research infrastructure in areas of mutual interest to NASA and the State of Maine; encourage more students to consider careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); (Continued on Schedule O)(Mission Statement Continued) and enhance NASA's presence throughout the…
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.
The 18 grants below total $1,122,164 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,304,920 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $182,756 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $247k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $419k
- $250k+1 grant · $437k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Maine | $437,433 |
| University of Southern Maine | $200,062 |
| College of the Atlantic | $143,170 |
| University of New England | $75,718 |
| Northeastern University | $49,133 |
| Maine Development Foundation | $45,340 |
| Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership | $23,840 |
| Educate Maine | $23,720 |
| Bowdoin College | $21,404 |
| Robotics Institute of Maine | $17,000 |
| Southern Maine Community College | $16,664 |
| Maine Maritime Academy | $15,218 |
| Teachers in Space Inc | $12,800 |
| Saint Joseph's College of Maine | $12,000 |
| Fathom Fishing Inc | $10,000 |
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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 +49% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC9× · 2017–2025 · $577k · revenue +45%- GOGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE4× · 2017–2020 · $501k · revenue +102%
University of New England8× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +24%
Funded once
The President and Trustees of Colby Collegeone grant, 2024 · $41k · revenue -7%- UEUnity Environmental Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $34k · revenue +176%
- WNWELLS NATIONAL ESTUARINEone grant, 2018 · $14k
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.
The mission of Reed College is to provide education in the liberal arts and sciences.
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…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Through a commitment to immersive learning, we prepare students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world's most challenging problems.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
To inspire and educate tomorrows leaders in an extraordinary learning community focused on engineering and design in the marine field.
Rensselaer educates the leaders of tomorrow for technologically based careers. We celebrate discovery and the responsible application of technology to create knowledge and global prosperity.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
New England College emphasizes experiential learning as an essential component in the development of an enduring academic community. Building upon a strong liberal arts foundation, we challenge our students to reach their full potential…
Our mission is to: improve our affiliates' research infrastructure in areas of mutual interest to NASA and the State of Maine; encourage more students to consider careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…
Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…
Bryant University's mission is to educate and inspire students to discover their passion and become innovative leaders with character around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is The Challenger Learning Cntr of Me. 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.
17 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. 17 of the 26 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 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS IN SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Development Foundation ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance ↗
- Who funds Educate Maine ↗
- Who funds Unity Environmental University ↗
- Who funds Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Robotics Institute of Maine ↗
- Who funds SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGER LEARNING CNTR OF ME ↗
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 · Harold Alfond Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Melmac Education Foundation · Onion Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Space Grant Consortium 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.
- Northeastern University — 7% 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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