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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.

$6.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$16MHealth$7.2MScience & Tech$4.2MEmployment$442kHuman Services$98kArts & Culture$94kCommunity Improvement$77kHousing & Shelter$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $4,288,550, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,122,943 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,834,393 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $258k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
$60,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Vermont$2,076,000
University of Maine System acting through the University of Southern Maine$261,424
Mayo Clinic$236,662
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center$214,379
University of New England$161,589
Northeastern University$138,851
MaineGeneral Medical Center$134,921
Penobscot Bay YMCA$112,716
University of Kentucky Research Foundation$109,210
Central Maine Community Health$106,917
Granite State Independent Living$90,000
Medical Care Development$77,657
York Hospital$73,509
American Heart Association$60,000
University of Maine System$59,565
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 (FY20–25, $753k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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: $113k → 11%Granite State Independent Living: $90k → 7%Bath YMCA: $5k → 9%Penobscot Bay YMCA: $46k → 11%Granite State Independent Living: $90k → 7%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: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 38 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
33

Total granted

$29M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+36%

Still filing today

66%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • University of New England
    8× · 2018–2025 · $769k · revenue +21%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    2× · 2018–2019 · $632k · revenue +36%
  • HP
    HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $416k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $495k · revenue +91%
  • TU
    TUFTS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $169k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2017 · $119k
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
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
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
5
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
6
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
7
Rumford Hospital

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

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
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
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
Umass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent)

Umass memorial health care, inc. is committed to improving the health of the people of central new england through excellence in clinical care, services, teaching, and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health; the most unlike its peers is Biddeford Saco Chamber of Commerce 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

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 80 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
41/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE: $15,574,093 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $2,481,004 · 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 · Other+33 more: $3,115,814 · Other+33 moreUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $1,441,997 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTE…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $494,851 · HealthMASS GENERAL …MAYO CLINIC: $446,116 · HealthMAYO CLINICHARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC: $416,150 · HealthHARVARD PILGR…Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic: $180,725 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $169,892 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $167,500 · Health+9 more: $478,761 · Health+9 moreYale University: $1,217,344 · EducationYale Univer…University of New England: $769,454 · EducationUniversity …Trustees of Tufts College: $632,187 · EducationTrustees of…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $366,137 · EducationNORTHEASTER…University of Kentucky Research Foundation: $207,653 · EducationUniversity …+7 more: $219,991 · Education+7 moreGRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING: $360,000 · Human ServicesPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $183,272 · Human ServicesHospice of Southern Maine: $65,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET: $52,001 · Human ServicesPROSPERITYME: $40,001 · Human ServicesBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $35,000 · Human Services+2 more: $17,500 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY: $100,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $83,648 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CORPORATION: $179,818 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $73,000 · Arts & CulturePoints North Institute: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMain Street Bath: $5,900 · Arts & Culture
Other$23,837,588Health$3,795,992Education$3,412,766Human Services$752,774Community Improvement$188,648Philanthropy$179,818Arts & Culture$84,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $1,441,997 over 4y, 37% of budgetYale University: $1,217,344 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $769,454 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $632,187 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $494,851 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $446,116 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC: $416,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $366,137 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING: $360,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $207,653 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $183,272 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic: $180,725 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CORPORATION: $179,818 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $169,892 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $167,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYork Hospital: $119,366 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedical Care Development Inc: $108,657 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREDINGTON-FAIRVIEW GENERAL HOSPITAL: $108,230 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY: $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $83,648 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $73,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRiver Valley Healthy Communities Coalition: $61,342 over 4y, 5.5% 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $41,581 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPERITYME: $40,001 over 2y, 0.4% 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 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 budgetEASTERN MAINE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THORNTON ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetTEDFORD HOUSING: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $6,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds University of New England ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds York Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Medical Care Development Inc ↗
  • Who funds REDINGTON-FAIRVIEW GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Portland Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PORTLAND COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC ↗

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.

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

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 MaineHealth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MaineHealth. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
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.

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 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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