How much did MAINE WOMENS FUND grant in FY2021?

MAINE WOMENS FUND reported 16 grants totaling $220,908 in its FY2021 IRS filing.

Where is MAINE WOMENS FUND based?

MAINE WOMENS FUND is based in ME.

MAINE WOMENS FUND

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· Public charity

MAINE WOMENS FUND

The maine women's fund makes bold investments that transform the lives of maine women and girls by incubating and investing in nonprofit organizations, partnering with grantees, and connecting people and organizations making social change.

$221k

Granted FY2021

Grants

Communities

$61k

Largest

01What you fund

0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.

Health$173kHuman Services$120kArts & Culture$77kCommunity Improvement$70kCrime & Legal$40kYouth Development$36kHousing & Shelter$30kCivil Rights$20kEducation$10kOther$229k

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

2018

policy advocacysexual assaultsexual violenceproviderssurvivors sexualself esteem

2019

engage youngincrease

2020

youthpoliciesworkersincreasecare

2021

equitymanofinancialelder

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

03FY2021 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k14 grants · $142k
$50k–250k1 grant · $61k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

WABANAKI HLTH & WELLNESS$61,408
MANO EN MANO$12,000
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INST$10,000
IN HER PRESENCE$10,000
ME COALITION TO END DOMESTIC$10,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJ$10,000
SOMAI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOC$10,000
ELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF ME$10,000
MAINE WOMENS LOBBY EDUCATION$10,000
SURVIVOR SPEAK US$10,000
THE YWCA OF CENTRAL MAINE$10,000
MABEL WADSWORTH WOMENS HEALT$10,000
MAINE TRANSGENDER NETWORK$10,000
FOUR DIRECTIONS DEVELOPMENT$10,000
NEW VENTURES MAINE$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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 87% of those 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$561k · 18 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +70% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$561k

$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%

+70%

Still filing today

83%

85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

WH
WABANAKI HLTH & WELLNESS
2× · 2020–2021 · $113k · revenue +1853%
MW
MABEL WADSWORTH WOMENS HEALT
4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +73%
MC
ME COALITION TO END DOMESTIC
2× · 2020–2021 · $39k · revenue +38%

Funded once

WW
WABANAKI WOMENS COALITION
one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue -16%
S
SPURWINKgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +37%
SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +125%

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.

MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health

Maine-Wabanaki Reach

We support the self-determination of Wabanaki People through Education, Truth-Telling, Restorative Justice, and Restorative Practices in Wabanaki and Maine communities. We design out structures and processes to be responsive to Wabanaki…

Arts & Culture

Waypoint Maine Inc

Assist developmentally disabled persons.

Human Services

Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation

Maine Public is Maine's premier, independent media resource serving the entirety of Maine, dedicated to creating exceptional opportunities for the communities it serves to engage with critical issues, compelling stories, and quality…

Arts & Culture

Maine Association for New Americans

MANA is an immigrant-led organization that promotes social & personal empowerment of immigrants in Maine through raising awareness of individual and collective trauma and how they affect our lives, expanding people's resilience building…

Community Improvement

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

Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate and ecological emergency. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate…

Environment

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

Eastern Maine Medical Center

Eastern Maine Medical Center d/b/a Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center strives to provide exceptional primary and specialty healthcare with a passionate pursuit of excellence in patient safety, clinical quality, and service. Our…

Health

Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health

Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners

The maine organic farmers and gardeners association is transforming our food system by supporting farmers, empowering people to feed their communities and advocating for an organic future.

Food & Nutrition

Maine & Company

Economic development in Maine.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault and the most unlike its peers is Wayfinder Schools. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3/38

the rest of the field

361/4,365

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

34 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)

32/34

Grantees still filing

28/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$288,750Health$173,408Human Services$119,935Arts & Culture$77,474Community Improvement$70,000Crime & Legal$40,000Youth Development$36,300

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 IncME66.4× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · United Way Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank 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 WOMENS FUND 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS - MEF.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 043386477 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS - MEF, 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 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% 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 Womens Fund?

Find your warmest path to Maine Womens Fund 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 WOMENS FUND

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

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Maine Womens Fund?

More from the funding graph

MAINE WOMENS FUND

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

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Maine Womens Fund?

More from the funding graph