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MaineHealth

MaineHealth Services will lead the development of the premier community care network that provides a broad range of integrated health care services in Maine and Northern New England.

$358k
Granted FY2018
9
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$410kCommunity Improvement$175kHealth$70kPhilanthropy$43kPublic Benefit$40kYouth Development$35kRecreation & Sports$20k
02FY2018 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $327,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $358,400 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,900 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 · FY2018

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $128k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$445M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of New England$150,000
Venture Hall$50,000
No on Question One$40,000
United Way of Greater Portland$22,500
American Heart Association$20,000
Center for Grieving Children$15,000
TD Beach to Beacon$10,000
American Academy of Pediatrics Maine Chapter Inc$10,000
Educate Maine$10,000
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 (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $6k → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$692k · 7 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$692k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+67%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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
    2× · 2017–2018 · $390k · revenue +24%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +26%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CE
    COASTAL ENTERPRISES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +60%
  • MC
    MAS COMMUNITY HEALTH
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • HO
    Hospice of Southern Mainegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +67%
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
Maine Veterinary Education Foundation
Education
3
Maine Quality Counts

Maine Quality Counts is transforming health and healthcare in Maine by leading, collaborating, and aligning improvement efforts.

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4
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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5
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
6
Maine Center Ventures

Support and promote the University of Maine Graduate & Professional Center ("Maine Center") of the University of Maine System through fundraising, marketing, and engagement with Maine enterprises and employers to identify and address…

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
Maine Council on Aging

A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…

Unclassified
9
Maine Association for the Education of Young Children

MaineAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and…

Education
10
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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11
Southern Maine Health Care

Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.

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12
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of New England: $389,605 · EducationUniversity of New EnglandEducate Maine: $20,000 · EducationVENTURE HALL: $150,000 · OtherVENTURE HALLNo on Question One: $40,000 · OtherNo on Question OneTD BEACH TO BEACON 10K INC: $20,000 · OtherTD BEACH TO BEACON 10K INCMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $18,738 · OtherMAS COMMUNITY HEALTHAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS MAINE CHAPTER INC: $10,000 · HealthUnited Way Inc: $42,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOASTAL ENTERPRISES INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHospice of Southern Maine: $6,250 · Human Services
Education$409,605Other$228,738Health$45,000Philanthropy$42,500Youth Development$35,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Human Services$6,250

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 budgetUniversity of New England: $389,605 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVENTURE HALL: $150,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $42,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL ENTERPRISES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEducate Maine: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTD BEACH TO BEACON 10K INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS MAINE CHAPTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
Maine Community Foundation IncME13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 12 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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