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Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc

The mission of pine tree legal assistance is to ensure that state and federal laws affecting poor people are upheld, while also addressing the systemic barriers to justice faced by mainers with low incomes. To achieve this mission, pine tree provides free civil legal assistance in cases where it can make a difference in one's ability to…

$21k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$8k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2024still arriving1$8k0%
FY20232$13k0%
FY20223$52k0%
FY20211$6k0%
FY20201$6k0%
FY201910$227k10%
FY20188$183k0%
FY20179$171kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$586kHealth$79k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Through These Doors$134,74052%
Family Violence Project$125,00033%
Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine$78,82234%
Sexual Assault Crisis & Support Center$75,00037%
Treasurer Kennebec County$72,0703n/a
Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut Inc$61,50080%
Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine$38,93333%
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project$36,64822%
State of Maine$29,1843n/a
Legal Services Vermont Inc$12,50020%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThrough These Doors: $134,740 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFamily Violence Project: $125,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine: $78,822 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSexual Assault Crisis & Support Center: $75,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetStatewide Legal Services of Connecticut Inc: $61,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine: $38,933 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetImmigrant Legal Advocacy Project: $36,648 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLegal Services Vermont Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% 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 8.

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…John T Gorman Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc

How much does Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc give?
Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $7,500, out of $21,429 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (88%), Health (12%).
Who are Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Through These Doors ($135k), Family Violence Project ($125k), Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine ($79k).
Does Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, John T Gorman Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc based?
Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc 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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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