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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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k6 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $20,000 |
| Locker Project | $15,000 |
| Catholic Charities of New Hampshire | $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 |
| Penquis CAP Inc | $5,000 |
| Furniture Friends | $5,000 |
| Sunrise Opportunities | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc’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 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 +83%
- NHNew Hampshire Catholic Charities3× · 2017–2019 · $34k · revenue +25%
- LPLocker Project3× · 2017–2019 · $33k · revenue +320%
Funded once
- AFAID FOR KIDSone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue -98%
- CCCAMP CAPELLA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +81%
- TNTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
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:…
Provides an inclusive enriching learning environment for students 15 months to 7 years of age
To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.
Penobscot Christian School exists to provide classical Christian education that cultivates life-long learners who love God, love others, and engage culture.
To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.
Wings For Children & Families partners with families and providers to deliver quality case management services utilizing the wraparound planning process, train other system providers improve quality of care.
To build better lives and stronger communities across Maine, The Opportunity Alliance supports people with the programs and resources they need to improve their health, safety, and stability.
The Northshire Day School is a 5 STAR, licensed non-profit early childhood education program which serves regional families with children zero to five.
Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Aid for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds Locker Project ↗
- Who funds THE CROMWELL CENTER FOR DISABILITIES AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds Sunrise Opportunities ↗
- Who funds AID FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds CAMP CAPELLA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Voices ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A GREEN FUTURE AKA GROWING TO GIVE ↗
- Who funds Families First Community Center ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PENQUIS CAP INC ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds Maine Academy of Modern Music ↗
- 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.
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
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 organization Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc 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.
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 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.
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