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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 orientation, national origin, physical or emotional disability or social or economic status.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$16MHealth$7.2MScience & Tech$4.2MEmployment$442kHuman Services$98kArts & Culture$94kCommunity Improvement$77kHousing & Shelter$72kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $4,589,288 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,975,131 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,385,843 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $382k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.8M
$45,759
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Vermont$2,772,708
University of Maine System acting through the University of Southern Maine$231,430
Mayo Clinic$180,152
LSU Pennington Biomedical Research$164,021
University of New England$139,808
MaineGeneral Medical Center$128,203
Northeastern University$120,251
American Heart Association$95,000
Granite State Independent Living$90,000
Brigham and Womens Hospital Inc$83,530
University of Kentucky Research Foundation$83,386
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc$63,684
Redington-Fairview General Hospital$55,215
Penobscot Bay YMCA$45,759
State of Vermont Dept of Disabilities Aging and Indep Living$45,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $530k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Granite State Independent Living: $90k → 7%Bath Area YMCA: $30k → 9%Granite State Independent Living: $90k → 7%Penobscot Bay YMCA: $46k → 11%Granite State Independent Living: $90k → 7%Bath YMCA: $5k → 9%Penobscot Bay YMCA: $25k → 11%The Progress Center: $8k → 13%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $10k → 9%Hospice of Southern Maine: $20k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $20k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Preble Street: $30k → 7%ProsperityME: $23k → 7%Preble Street: $22k → 7%ProsperityME: $17k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
MI
MA
IA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
KY
NC
DC
HI
LA
TX

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 34 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
31

Total granted

$24M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+36%

Still filing today

71%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    2× · 2018–2019 · $632k · revenue +36%
  • University of New England
    7× · 2018–2024 · $608k · revenue +21%
  • HP
    HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $401k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE
    one grant, 2017 · $539k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $495k · revenue +49%
  • TU
    TUFTS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $169k

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.

1
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
2
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
3
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
5
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
7
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
8
MaineGeneral Health and Affiliates

MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.

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9
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
10
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
11
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
12
The University of Vermont Medical Center

To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and the most unlike its peers is Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Ymca Youth DevelopmentCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Construc…Environmental Conservation …Christian Youth CampsLocal History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%75%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/75
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,490

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 76 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
43/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — $13,498,093 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC — $2,160,015 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $1,454,029 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $1,212,648 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED+30 more — $2,588,191 · Other+30 moreUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS — $1,441,997 · HealthUT SOUTHWEST…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $494,851 · HealthMASS GENERAL…HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC — $401,385 · HealthHARVARD PILG…MAYO CLINIC — $209,454 · HealthMAYO CLINICBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $169,892 · HealthDartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic — $131,744 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $107,500 · Health+9 more — $249,514 · Health+9 moreYale University — $1,217,344 · EducationYale Univers…Trustees of Tufts College — $632,187 · EducationTrustees of …University of New England — $607,865 · EducationUniversity o…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $227,286 · EducationNORTHEASTERN…+7 more — $308,434 · Education+7 moreGRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING — $270,000 · Human ServicesPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA — $70,556 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET — $52,001 · Human ServicesHospice of Southern Maine — $45,000 · Human ServicesPROSPERITYME — $40,001 · Human ServicesBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA — $35,000 · Human Services+2 more — $17,500 · Human ServicesBROWN UNIVERSITY — $83,648 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY — $75,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $73,000 · Arts & CulturePoints North Institute — $6,000 · Arts & CultureMain Street Bath — $5,900 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CORPORATION — $72,901 · Philanthropy
Other$20,912,976Health$3,206,337Education$2,993,116Human Services$530,058Community Improvement$163,648Arts & Culture$84,900Philanthropy$72,901

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS — $1,441,997 over 4y, 37% of budgetYale University — $1,217,344 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $632,187 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England — $607,865 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $494,851 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC — $401,385 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING — $270,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $227,286 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $209,454 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $169,892 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic — $131,744 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $107,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $98,443 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $83,648 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY — $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $73,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CORPORATION — $72,901 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA — $70,556 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREDINGTON-FAIRVIEW GENERAL HOSPITAL — $55,215 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Community Health Center — $52,001 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $52,001 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PORTLAND COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC — $52,001 over 2y, 13% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $51,606 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYork Hospital — $45,857 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $41,581 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPERITYME — $40,001 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRiver Valley Healthy Communities Coalition — $36,276 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING — $31,496 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedical Care Development Inc — $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $29,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $27,842 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency — $21,110 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WALDO COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $16,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBowdoin College — $15,851 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine 200 — $15,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Rivers Health Care Inc — $8,713 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health — $8,202 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PROGRESS CENTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen — $7,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation — $6,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPoints North Institute — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANFORDSPRINGVALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $6,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMain Street Bath — $5,900 over 1y, 4.8% of budget
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 UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds University of New England ↗
  • Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds REDINGTON-FAIRVIEW GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Portland Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PORTLAND COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds York Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗

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 Found…Davis Family Foundati…Sam L Cohen FoundationMaine Health Access F…John T Gorman Foundat…Elmina B Sewall Found…Atlantic Federal Cred…Libra FoundationFisher Charitable Fou…Harvard Pilgrim Healt…Bangor Savings Bank F…Mid Coast Hospital
Maine Community Foundation IncME37.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation · Libra Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Mid Coast Hospital

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 MaineHealth 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Little Rivers Health Care Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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