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Skowhegan Savings Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Skowhegan Savings Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$400k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Employment$335kEducation$298kCommunity Improvement$152kScience & Tech$75kHuman Services$75kRecreation & Sports$50kEnvironment$45kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mid Maine Technical Center$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
KVCAP Early Childhood School$50,000
Beth Brunswick Memorial Fund for Children$50,000
Maine Mountain Childrens House$25,000
Jobs for Maine Graduates$25,000
Augusta Downtown Alliance$25,000
Tri County Technical Center$25,000
Central Maine Growth Council$25,000
Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands$15,000
ProsperityME$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY23–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ProsperityME: $10k → 7%ProsperityME: $10k → 7%Good Will Hinckley: $5k → 15%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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$548k · 7 repeat orgs$515k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +180% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
35

Total granted

$548k
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+180%
+20%

Still filing today

57%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JF
    Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +107%
  • CM
    Central Maine Growth Council
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +180%
  • TT
    THE TRUST TO CONSERVE NORTHEAST FORESTLANDS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +431%

Funded once

  • SM
    Saddleback Mountain Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -100%
  • SC
    Somerset Career & Technical Center
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SE
    Somerset Economic Dev Corp
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets

MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to…

Food & Nutrition
2
Fork Food Lab

Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…

Environment
3
Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

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4
Maine Farm Bureau Association

An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.

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5
Northern Maine Development Commission

To serve the northern Maine region with effective regional community planning and economic development.

Community Improvement
6
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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7
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
8
Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council

To promote business and economic development in the cities of lewiston and auburn

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9
Maine Food and Beverage Education Center

The mission of the Corporation is to showcase the quality and diversity of foods and beverages grown or produced in the State of Maine by offering educational classes and events aimed at raising public awareness of the varied and unique…

Food & Nutrition
10
Maine State Chamber of Commerce

Enhance the business climate, the quality of life, and economic wellbeing of the businesses and people of maine

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11
Bath-Brunswick Regional Chamber

Our mission is to be a catalyst for growth and development of our region through collaborative policymaking, eliminating barriers, connecting leaders, promoting prosperity, and welcoming diversity.

Community Improvement
12
Maine Credit Union's Campaign for Ending Hunger

Maine credit union's campaign for ending hunger is committed to raising funds through a variety of ways and distributing all money raised to hunger organizations and food pantries throughout maine.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The People Who Care Food Cupboard. 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

19 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. 19 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Skowhegan Early Childhood Education Center: $200,000 · OtherSkowhegan Early Childhood Education CenterJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc: $185,000 · OtherJobs for Maine's Graduates IncIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMid Maine Technical Center: $75,000 · OtherMid Maine Technical CenterKVCAP Early Childhood School: $50,000 · OtherKVCAP Early Childhood SchoolSomerset Career & Technical Center: $50,000 · OtherSomerset Career & Technical CenterTHE TRUST TO CONSERVE NORTHEAST FORESTLANDS: $45,000 · OtherTHE TRUST TO CONSERVE NORTHEAST FORESTLANDS+29 more: $130,300 · Other+29 moreCentral Maine Growth Council: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCentral Ma…MAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN: $20,000 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREE…+1 more: $2,500 · Community ImprovementBETH BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL FUND FOR CH: $50,000 · EducationMAINE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOUSE: $25,000 · EducationSaddleback Mountain Foundation: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsPROSPERITYME: $20,000 · Human ServicesGood Will Home Association: $4,500 · Human ServicesMaine Community Foundation Inc: $15,000 · PhilanthropyAUGUSTA FOOD BANK: $1,000 · Food & NutritionTHE PEOPLE WHO CARE FOOD CUPBOARD: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCARE & SHARE FOOD CLOSET INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank: $1,000 · Food & NutritionALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,500 · Youth Development
Other$810,300Community Improvement$97,500Education$75,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Human Services$24,500Philanthropy$15,000Food & Nutrition$4,000Youth Development$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc: $185,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Maine Growth Council: $75,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetBETH BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL FUND FOR CH: $50,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSaddleback Mountain Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE TRUST TO CONSERVE NORTHEAST FORESTLANDS: $45,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetAUGUSTA DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMAINE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPROSPERITYME: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMID-MAINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $4,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGood Will Home Association: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Franklin Development Council: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAUGUSTA FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE WHO CARE FOOD CUPBOARD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCARE & SHARE FOOD CLOSET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSKOWHEGAN COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc ↗
  • Who funds Central Maine Growth Council ↗
  • Who funds BETH BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL FUND FOR CH ↗
  • Who funds Saddleback Mountain Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST TO CONSERVE NORTHEAST FORESTLANDS ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTA DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MAINE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN ↗
  • Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MID-MAINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds Good Will Home Association ↗
  • Who funds Greater Franklin Development Council ↗
  • Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE WHO CARE FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
  • Who funds CARE & SHARE FOOD CLOSET INC ↗
  • Who funds SKOWHEGAN COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD ↗

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…Franklin Savings Bank…Bill and Joan Alfond …Elmina B Sewall Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…Harold Alfond Foundat…Machias Savings Bank …Kennebec Savings Bank…Fisher Charitable Fou…John T Gorman Foundat…Davis Family Foundati…Impactassetsinc
Maine Community Foundation IncME37.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc

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 Skowhegan Savings Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skowhegan Savings Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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 50 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-PF 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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