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Maine · Public charity

Northern Light Health Foundation

Raise & manage funds for exempt organizations

$11M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$130,959
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,782,022
Organizations funded a year
12 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$98M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Northern Light Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$11M7%
FY202414$12M7%
FY202312$9.8M0%
FY202213$16M0%
FY202116$9.9M19%
FY202012$16M0%
FY201912$8.6M0%
FY201814$7.5M7%
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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 2024.

Health$84MEducation$162k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen$37,432,53791%
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital$25,101,45594%
Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital$8,723,55692%
Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital$6,849,36788%
The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital$4,276,46995%
The Aroostook Medical Center Northern Light Ar Gould Hospital$3,791,70991%
Acadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital$3,397,41192%
VNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice$3,372,76092%
Inland Hospital Northern Light Inland Hospital$1,120,25291%
Sebasticook Valley Health Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hosp$711,93680%
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All grantees of Northern Light Health Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen$37,432,53791%
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital$25,101,45594%
Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital$8,723,55692%
Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital$6,849,36788%
The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital$4,276,46995%
The Aroostook Medical Center Northern Light Ar Gould Hospital$3,791,70991%
Acadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital$3,397,41192%
VNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice$3,372,76092%
Inland Hospital Northern Light Inland Hospital$1,120,25291%
Sebasticook Valley Health Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hosp$711,93680%
Lakewood Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood$419,12671%
Eastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary$199,727895%
Husson University$178,05190%
MRH Corp Northern Light Mayo Hospital$171,47730%
Penobscot Community Health Center$122,63410%
Northern Light Medical Transport Northern Light Medical Transport & Emerg$60,14411%
Rosscare$16,3632n/a
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health$6,27810%
LifeFlight Foundation$5,37610%

Where it is load-bearing

Northern Light Health Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen: $37,432,537 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $25,101,455 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetMaine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital: $8,723,556 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetCharles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital: $6,849,367 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetThe Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital: $4,276,469 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetThe Aroostook Medical Center Northern Light Ar Gould Hospital: $3,791,709 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital: $3,397,411 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetVNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice: $3,372,760 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetInland Hospital Northern Light Inland Hospital: $1,120,252 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSebasticook Valley Health Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hosp: $711,936 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLakewood Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood: $419,126 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary: $199,727 over 8y, 95% of budgetHusson University: $178,051 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMRH Corp Northern Light Mayo Hospital: $171,477 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPenobscot Community Health Center: $122,634 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Light Medical Transport Northern Light Medical Transport & Emerg: $60,144 over 1y, 0.8% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

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

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.

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About Northern Light Health Foundation

How much does Northern Light Health Foundation give?
Northern Light Health Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $10,939,795 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Northern Light Health Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%), Education (0%).
Who are Northern Light Health Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen ($37M), Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital ($25M), Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital ($8.7M).
Does Northern Light Health Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northern Light Health Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Davis Family Foundation, Maine Hospital Association Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Northern Light Health Foundation based?
Northern Light Health Foundation is based in ME.

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 19 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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