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Northern Light Health Foundation

Raise & manage funds for exempt organizations

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4.5M
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.

Health$84MEducation$162k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $448k
  • $250k+7 grants · $11M
$279,801
Median grant
1
States reached
$100M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Eastern Maine Medical Center$4,455,734
Mercy Hospital$2,342,062
Charles A Dean Memorial Hospi$1,816,903
Maine Coast Regional Health F$1,514,342
VNA Home Health & Hospice$735,938
The Aroostook Medical Center$317,105
Acadia Hospital Corp$279,801
Blue Hill Memorial Hospital$195,862
Sebasticook Valley Health$192,460
MRH Corp$59,593
Inland Hospital$49,370
Husson University$13,988
Lakewood$9,376
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems$6,278
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Mercy Hospital: $2.3M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $2.7M → 11%Inland Hospital: $432k → 12%The Aroostook Medical Center: $911k → 15%Sebasticook Valley Health: $192k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $1.6M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $1.5M → 11%Lakewood: $171k → 12%The Aroostook Medical Center: $501k → 15%Sebasticook Valley Health: $147k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $8.3M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $1.4M → 11%Inland Hospital: $145k → 12%Charles A Dean Memorial Hospi: $1.8M → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $451k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $3.6M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $851k → 11%Charles A Dean Memorial Hospi: $1.4M → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $436k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $3.5M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $494k → 11%Charles A Dean Memorial Hospi: $469k → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $317k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $2.0M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $356k → 11%Charles A Dean Memorial Hospi: $383k → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $312k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $595k → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $329k → 11%Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital: $294k → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $308k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $412k → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $298k → 11%The Aroostook Medical Center: $139k → 15%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $736k → 7%Blue Hill Memorial Hospital: $2.5M → 11%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $395k → 7%Blue Hill Memorial Hospital: $1.0M → 11%Acadia Hospital Corp: $1.2M → 15%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $328k → 7%Blue Hill Memorial Hospital: $196k → 11%Acadia Hospital Corp: $672k → 15%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $239k → 7%Blue Hill Memorial Hospital: $177k → 11%Acadia Hospital Corp: $280k → 15%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $207k → 7%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $165k → 7%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $162k → 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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$84M · 15 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$84M
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-22%
+47%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthEducationOther

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

  • CA
    Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +9%
  • HU
    Husson University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $162k · revenue +38%
  • MC
    MRH Corp Northern Light Mayo Hospital
    2× · 2021–2024 · $101k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • PC
    Penobscot Community Health Center
    one grant, 2021 · $123k · revenue +4%
  • LF
    LifeFlight Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +47%

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
Northern Light Health Foundation

Raise & manage funds for exempt organizations

Health
2
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
3
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
4
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
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5
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
6
North Lake Wellness Center
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7
Caldwell Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide safe, effective, compassionate care and to promote healthy lifestyles to our community.

Health
8
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
9
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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11
Maine Quality Counts

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

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12
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville

Rooted in a tradition of Christian service, Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville expands access to high quality healthcare delivered with a compassionate and nurturing spirit to all.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Rosscare. 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

18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
5/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen — $34,750,481 · HealthEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical CenMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital — $22,319,433 · HealthMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy HospitalMaine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital — $7,907,495 · HealthMaine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast HospitalCharles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital — $4,425,698 · HealthTHE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL — $4,203,364 · HealthTHE AROOSTOOK MEDICAL CENTER NORTHERN LIGHT AR GOULD HOSPITAL — $3,375,092 · Health+9 more — $7,394,873 · Health+9 moreHusson University — $162,266 · EducationRosscare — $16,363 · OtherEASTERN MAINE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH — $6,278 · Other
Health$84,376,436Education$162,266Other$22,641

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen — $34,750,481 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital — $22,319,433 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetMaine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital — $7,907,495 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetCharles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital — $4,425,698 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetTHE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL — $4,203,364 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetTHE AROOSTOOK MEDICAL CENTER NORTHERN LIGHT AR GOULD HOSPITAL — $3,375,092 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital — $2,608,416 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetVNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice — $2,352,434 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetINLAND HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT INLAND HOSPITAL — $989,293 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSebasticook Valley Health Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hosp — $614,273 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLakewood Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood — $412,554 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary — $188,712 over 7y, 95% of budgetHusson University — $162,266 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPenobscot Community Health Center — $122,634 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMRH Corp Northern Light Mayo Hospital — $101,181 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN MAINE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH — $6,278 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation — $5,376 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Davis Family Foundati…Maine Hospital Associ…Maine Community Found…Maine Cancer Foundati…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Davis Family FoundationME32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davis Family Foundation · Maine Hospital Association Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Cancer Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Northern Light Health Foundation 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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: 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 18 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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