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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

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 FY2019
10
Organizations funded FY2019
50%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$9,380
Largest grant, FY2019
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 10
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Total assets, FY2019
$9.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 50% of the organizations Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY201910$100k50%
FY201810$100k60%
FY20178$88kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Food & Nutrition$122kHealth$57kHuman Services$43kCrime & Legal$18kInternational$17kRecreation & Sports$15kArts & Culture$11kYouth Development$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Good Shepherd Food Bank$57,60030%
New Hampshire Catholic Charities$33,82330%
Locker Project$32,50032%
The Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness$27,35026%
Sunrise Opportunities$22,50030%
Aid for Kids$17,00011%
Camp Capella Inc$15,00016%
The Northern Lighthouse Inc$10,00010%
Safe Voices$10,00010%
Center for a Green Future Aka Growing to Give$9,38019%
Families First Community Center$8,00017%
Aroostook County Action Program$7,75510%
Rsu29$6,7201n/a
Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine$5,55010%
Girls on the Run International Inc$5,40010%
Penquis Cap Inc$5,00010%
Furniture Friends$5,00013%
Maine Academy of Modern Music$5,00011%
Wayfinder Schools$4,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $57,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $33,823 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLocker Project: $32,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetThe Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness: $27,350 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetSunrise Opportunities: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAid for Kids: $17,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCamp Capella Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetThe Northern Lighthouse Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSafe Voices: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for a Green Future Aka Growing to Give: $9,380 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetFamilies First Community Center: $8,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetAroostook County Action Program: $7,755 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Museum and Theatre of Maine: $5,550 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGirls on the Run International Inc: $5,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPenquis Cap Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFurniture Friends: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMaine Academy of Modern Music: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWayfinder Schools: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME32.5× affinity14 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 · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Libra Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen 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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How do I get to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

How much does Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc give?
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc reported 10 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (43%), Health (20%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Good Shepherd Food Bank ($58k), New Hampshire Catholic Charities ($34k), Locker Project ($33k).
Does Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation, Fisher Charitable Foundation.
Where is Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc based?
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine 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 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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