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· Public charity
Northern Light Health Foundation
Raise & manage funds for exempt organizations
$12M
Granted FY2024
14
Grants
1
Communities
$4.5M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Health$80MEducation$138kOther$13k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
lakewoodlong-term
2020
dean
2021
pchcunderstandlomintegratedwellbeingmodeltherapy
2022
lakewoodlong-termdean
2023
dean
2024
lakewoodlong-termdean
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 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
- 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
04
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 50% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
$80M · 14 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
3
Total granted
$80M
$135k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
-23%
+40%
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.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CACharles A Dean Memorial Hospital6× · 2018–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +10%
- HUHusson University7× · 2018–2024 · $138k · revenue +16%
- MCMRH Corp2× · 2021–2024 · $101k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- PCPenobscot Community Healthcargraduatedone grant, 2021 · $123k · revenue +40%
- RRosscareone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue -16%
- TLThe LifeFlight Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +118%
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
Houlton Regional Hospital
Houlton Regional Hospital's purpose is to provide safe, compassionate, quality, cost effective care to communities we serve. We are dedicated to improving the health status of those we support through eduaction, treatment and…
Health
3
Northern Maine Medical Center
Acute care & long term care hospital and mental health services facility.
Health
4
Central Maine Medical Center
Cmmc strives to provide exceptional healthcare services. the hospital depends on the expertise of its caregivers in addition to the commitment and compassion they provide.
Health
5
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.
Health
6
St Luke's Cornwall Hospital
Montefiore st. luke's cornwall hospital is dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare to improve the lives and well-being of the people in the communities we serve.
Health
7
Concord Hospital - Laconia
Hospital
Health
8
Portsmouth General Hospital
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9
Lawrence General Hospital
Acute care community hospital providing inpatient and outpatient health services to the general public.
Health
10
John T Mather Memorial Hospital
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital is an accredited, non-profit community hospital dedicated to providing a wide spectrum of health care services of the highest quality.
Health
11
Morris Hospital
Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers exist to provide healthcare in a general short-term hospital in addition to delivering primary Healthcare services in the outpatient setting. The mission of Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers is to…
Health
12
Hartford Hospital
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Maine Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Lakewood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
6/18
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$79,890,861Education$138,325Other$13,408
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Eastern Maine Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Regional Health F ↗
- Who funds Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds Blue Hill Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds The Aroostook Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Acadia Hospital Corp ↗
- Who funds VNA Home Health & Hospice ↗
- Who funds Inland Hospital ↗
- Who funds Sebasticook Valley Health ↗
- Who funds Lakewood ↗
- Who funds EMMC Auxiliary ↗
- Who funds Husson University ↗
- Who funds Penobscot Community Healthcar ↗
- Who funds MRH Corp ↗
- Who funds Rosscare ↗
- Who funds Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems ↗
- Who funds The LifeFlight Foundation ↗
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 FoundationME32.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover 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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation 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 moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EMMC Auxiliary.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~59 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 010377901 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on EMMC Auxiliary, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 59 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Northern Light Health Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Northern Light Health Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines