How much did Maine Space Grant Consortium grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of Maine Space Grant Consortium’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

mmsawayseducatorsengineering math

2020

mmsawayseducatorsengineering math

2021

mmsawayseducatorsengineering math

2022

teachersstudentmmsawayseducatorsengineering math

2023

teachersstudent

2024

teachersstudent

2025

educationalteachersstudentworkforcemmsawaysyouth

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $19k
$10k–50k11 grants · $247k
$50k–250k3 grants · $419k
$250k+1 grant · $437k

$21,404

Median grant

States reached

$421k

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 84% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.7M · 15 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.7M

$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

-9%

Still filing today

67%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

GO
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
3× · 2018–2020 · $318k · revenue +75%
University of New England
7× · 2018–2025 · $168k · revenue +14%
BC
Bowdoin College
8× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +49%

Funded once

Colby College
one grant, 2024 · $41k · revenue -28%
UC
Unity Collegegraduated
one grant, 2020 · $34k · revenue +150%
VE
VALT Enterprises LLC
one grant, 2018 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

New England College

An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.

Education

New England Institute of Technology

The mission of new england institute of technology (neit) is described in schedule o*the mission of new england institute of technology (neit) is to provide specialized undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs which…

Education

Western New England University

See Schedule O Statement for Part III, Line 1 that also applies to Part I, Line 1

Education

Colby-Sawyer College

Institute of Higher Learning

Education

Norwich University

Norwich's mission is to give our youth an education that shall be american in its character.

Education

Southern New Hampshire University

Southern New Hampshire University transforms the lives of students. Our success is defined by our students' success. By relentlessly challenging the status quo and providing the best support in higher education, Southern New Hampshire…

Education

Husson University

Educational Institution

Education

Massachusetts Higher Education

Provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Welfare Benefit Plans Trust

To provide health and life insurance benefits to covered eligible retirees of massachusetts institute of technology and their dependents, as well as individuals receiving long-term disability benefits for at least three years.

Membership Benefit

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Endicott College

Undergraduate and graduate education. (see schedule o)endicott integrates professional and liberal arts with experiential learning including internships.

Education

The New England College of Optometry

Changing the way people see the world through optometric education, discovery and service.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Unity Environmental University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

12/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,700,819Education$781,947Animals$318,331Community Improvement$69,180Environment$7,943

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.

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Teachers in Space Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 465720474 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Teachers in Space Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Maine Space Grant Consortium?

Find your warmest path to Maine Space Grant Consortium through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Maine Space Grant Consortium

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Maine Space Grant Consortium?

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Maine Space Grant Consortium

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Maine Space Grant Consortium?

More from the funding graph