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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.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $7,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,429 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,929 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.
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CT$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Family Violence Project: $47k → 12%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$664k · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$664k
$0

Still filing today

80%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • TT
    THROUGH THESE DOORS
    5× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +68%
  • FV
    FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT
    3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +25%
  • SA
    SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE SERVICES OF SOUTHERN MAINE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $79k · revenue +13%

Funded once

    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
    Safe Voices

    The mission of Safe Voices is to provide person-to-person, individualized advocacy for all survivors of domestic abuse and violence, sex trafficking, and sexual exploitation in Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties and engage our…

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    2
    Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Services

    To provide counseling and support for victims of sexual abuse and their families

    —
    3
    Sexual Assault Support Services

    To create opportunities for survivors of sexual violence and their supporters to find healing, justice, and liberation. We support people who have experienced sexual violence in any form, including intimate partner violence, family…

    Health
    4
    Asap Association for Sexual Abuse Prevention and Treatment C/O Roth & Co
    Human Services
    5
    Sexual Violence Law Center

    Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that protects the safety, privacy, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and trauma-informed practices rooted in race and…

    Human Services
    6
    Center for Community Solutions

    The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

    Health
    7
    Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence Inc

    The mission of connecticut alliance to end sexual violence is to create communities free of sexual violence and to provide culturally affirming, trauma-informed advocacy, prevention, and intervention services centered on the voices of…

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    8
    Domestic Violence Project

    The mission of SafeHouse Center is to empower survivors of both sexual and intimate partner violence by providing advocacy, support, and promoting social change within our community.

    Human Services
    9
    Project Sage Inc

    Project SAGE creates social change to end interpersonal, relationship violence by challenging attitudes and beliefs about power, control, and gender norms and by advocating for victims and survivors.

    Human Services
    10
    Survivors Resources Inc Dba Safe Haven Inc of Pike County

    Provide counseling, crisis intervention, 24 hour crisis hotline, advocacy, safe housing and supportive services to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

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    11
    Skagit Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services

    To end domestic violence and sexual assault in skagit county through empowerment, advocacy, education, awareness, and prevention.

    Human Services
    12
    Sexual Assault Response and Awareness Inc

    To support and assist victims of sexual violence; provide education, allied professional training and community outreach, and promote an effective, collaborative, multi-disciplinary response to sexual violence in our community.

    Health
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sexual Assault Crisis & Support Center; the most unlike its peers is Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project. 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

    8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    5
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    8/8
    Grantees still filing
    8/8
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    THROUGH THESE DOORS: $134,740 · Human ServicesTHROUGH THESE DOORSFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $125,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECTSEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE SERVICES OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $78,822 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE SE…SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SUPPORT CENTER: $75,000 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SU…Treasurer Kennebec County: $72,070 · OtherTreasurer Kennebec Coun…SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES OF MIDCOAST MAINE: $38,933 · OtherSEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT …State of Maine: $29,184 · OtherState of MaineSTATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC: $61,500 · Crime & LegalSTATEWIDE LEGAL SE…IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $36,648 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRANT LEGAL AD…LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC: $12,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES VER…
    Human Services$259,740Health$153,822Other$140,187Crime & Legal$110,648

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    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
    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 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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
      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 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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