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Ronald McDonald House Charities
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for families of children receiving treatment; and supports a Family Room where families find respite at…
$100k
Granted FY2019
10
Grants
2
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.
Food & Nutrition$99kHuman Services$81kHealth$27kArts & Culture$11kCrime & Legal$8kYouth Development$5kOther$56k
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
2018
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2019
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2019 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k6 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
$9,380
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Good Shepherd Food Bank$20,000
- Catholic Charities of New Hampshire$15,000
- Locker Project$15,000
- The Cromwell Center for Disabilities$13,500
- Growing to Give$9,380
- Houlton Elementary School$6,720
- Girls on the Run$5,400
- Sunrise Opportunities$5,000
- Furniture Friends$5,000
- Penquis CAP Inc$5,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 50% of those 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.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Ronald McDonald House Charities’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in ME; read by stated purpose it is 79% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Ronald McDonald House Charitieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 21% directed abroad (not shown)Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$174k · 5 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
9
Total granted
$174k
$82k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+71%
+27%
Still filing today
80%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank3× · 2017–2019 · $58k · revenue +71%
- NHNew Hampshire Food Bank3× · 2017–2019 · $34k · revenue +24%
- LPLocker Project3× · 2017–2019 · $33k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- AFAid for Kidsone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue -98%
- CCCamp CaPellaone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -2%
- SVSafe Voicesgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +78%
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.
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Waypoint Maine Inc
Assist developmentally disabled persons.
Human Services
2
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation
Maine Public is Maine's premier, independent media resource serving the entirety of Maine, dedicated to creating exceptional opportunities for the communities it serves to engage with critical issues, compelling stories, and quality…
Arts & Culture
3
Maine GearShare
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
Recreation & Sports
4
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
5
Maine Seacoast Mission
The Mission seeks to strengthen Downeast Maine coastal and island communities by educating youth, supporting families and promoting healthy lifestyles.
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Maine Climate Action Now
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate and ecological emergency. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate…
Environment
7
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
The maine organic farmers and gardeners association is transforming our food system by supporting farmers, empowering people to feed their communities and advocating for an organic future.
Food & Nutrition
8
Children's Center Early Intervention &
The Children's Center, as a nonprofit organization, provides quality, family-focused services for children; specializes in meeting the developmental needs of children with special needs by offering programs which encourage individual…
Health
9
The Camden Childrens House
Founded in 1979, the Childrens House Montessori School cultivates curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in young learners, while nurturing a sense of care for each other, the environment, and the world.
Education
10
Kids Free to Grow
The prevention of child abuse through education, collaboration, and advocacy.
Crime & Legal
11
New Hampshire Children's Health
Health
12
Maine Needs Inc
We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Penquis Cap Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Food & Nutrition$99,480Human Services$80,823Other$56,220Health$27,350Arts & Culture$10,550Crime & Legal$7,755Youth Development$5,400
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 Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Locker Project ↗
- Who funds The Cromwell Center for Disabilities ↗
- Who funds Aid for Kids ↗
- Who funds Camp CaPella ↗
- Who funds Safe Voices ↗
- Who funds The Northern Lighthouse Inc ↗
- Who funds Growing to Give ↗
- Who funds Families First Community Center ↗
- Who funds Aroostook Community Action Program ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run ↗
- Who funds Maine Academy of Modern Music ↗
- Who funds Furniture Friends ↗
- Who funds Penquis CAP Inc ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Schools ↗
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.
Maine Community Foundation IncME30.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Libra Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust
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 Ronald McDonald House Charities 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
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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: Growing to Give.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~19 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 821075994 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 Growing to Give, 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 19 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Ronald McDonald House Charities?
Find your warmest path to Ronald McDonald House Charities 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