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Southern Maine Agency on Aging

The Southern Maine Agency on Aging is the focal point in Cumberland and York counties for resources, services and information to empower older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers to live to their fullest potential.

$718k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$117k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$780kFood & Nutrition$180kCommunity Improvement$55kCrime & Legal$47kRecreation & Sports$33kHousing & Shelter$26kInternational$20kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $431,050, the rows itemized in this filing. The $718,022 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $286,972 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $384k
$83,036
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Eastern Area Agency On Aging$116,603
Spectrum Generations$104,179
Aroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc$83,036
SeniorsPlus$80,076
Legal Services for Maine Elders$47,156
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $677k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Spectrum Generations: $104k → 12%SeniorsPlus: $80k → 13%Eastern Area Agency On Aging: $117k → 15%Aroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc: $83k → 15%Crosswalk Community Outreach: $5k → 7%York County Community Action Corporation: $10k → 9%Her Safety Net: $20k → 13%AK Health And Social Services: $20k → 13%Community Outreach Services: $18k → 9%Freeport Community Services Age Friendly Freeport & Pownal: $20k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $8k → 7%Freeport Community Services Inc: $8k → 7%Vet to Vet Maine: $20k → 9%Vet to Vet Maine: $8k → 9%Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition: $20k → 7%Vet to Vet Maine: $8k → 9%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $20k → 7%Age Friendly Saco: $20k → 9%Khmer Maine: $20k → 7%Presente Maine: $13k → 7%Presente Maine: $9k → 7%York Community Service Association: $20k → 9%Catholic Charities of Maine: $8k → 7%Opportunity Alliance: $7k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $7k → 7%Independent Transportation Network: $8k → 7%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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$249k · 9 repeat orgs$925k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
34

Total granted

$249k
$494k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+5%

Still filing today

89%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $431k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • VT
    VET TO VET MAINE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +151%
  • FC
    FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES
    3× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +114%
  • IH
    In Her Presence
    3× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +408%

Funded once

  • MA
    Maine Association for New Americans
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -16%
  • HF
    HARRISON FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -59%
  • SS
    SOUTH SUDANESE GROUP OF FRIENDS
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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 Council on Aging

A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…

Unclassified
2
Community Health and Counseling Services

Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.

Health
3
Penobscot Community Health Center

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…

Health
4
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
5
Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health
6
Maine Access Immigrant Network

MAIN serves as a bridge and cultural broker for multilingual access to health and social services for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in our community.

Human Services
7
Southern Maine Affordable Housing

To provide quality affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
8
Machias Area Food Pantry

The primary mission of the Machias Area Food Pantry is to provide good healthy food to individuals and families who are food insecure throughout Washington County, Maine.

Food & Nutrition
9
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
10
Maine Pretrial Services

Provide low-income defendants assistance in obtaining pretrial release and supervision.

—
11
Independence Advocates of Maine Inc

Residential, nursing care and community supports to adults with intellectual disabilities. Our mission is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities by

Human Services
12
Maine Mobile Health Program Inc

To improve the health status of seasonal workers and their families by providing culturally appropriate care and services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Maine; the most unlike its peers is Crosswalk Community Outreach. 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

36 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. 36 of the 48 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
22/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Eastern Area Agency on Aging: $116,603 · Human ServicesEastern Area Agency on AgingSPECTRUM GENERATIONS: $104,179 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM GENERATIONSAroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc: $83,036 · Human ServicesAroostook Area Agency on Aging IncSENIORSPLUS: $80,076 · Human ServicesSENIORSPLUSVET TO VET MAINE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Maine: $32,775 · Human Services+13 more: $215,589 · Human Services+13 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SANFORD-SPRINGVALE: $32,480 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN…PORTLAND AREA VILLAGES INC: $27,500 · OtherPORTLAND AREA VILLAG…SOUTH SUDANESE GROUP OF FRIENDS: $20,000 · OtherSOUTH SUDANESE GROUP…First Assembly of God Food Distribution Ministry: $20,000 · OtherFirst Assembly of Go…HEART TO HEART: $15,750 · OtherHEART TO HEARTTHE SALVATION ARMY: $15,300 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYGRATEFUL UNDEAD: $13,352 · OtherGRATEFUL UNDEADTown of Windham: $12,300 · OtherTown of WindhamBERWICK PARKS AND RECREATION DEPT: $11,909 · OtherBERWICK PARKS AND RE…Sacred HeartSt Dominics Food Pantry: $10,000 · OtherTOWN OF CUMBERLAND: $9,000 · OtherYORK COUNTY ELDERLY ABUSE TASK FORCE: $8,640 · OtherSACO SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAM: $7,500 · OtherELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $7,491 · Other+1 more: $6,300 · OtherIn Her Presence: $35,000 · Community ImprovementMaine Association for New Americans: $20,000 · Community ImprovementYork County Shelter Programs Inc: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT GRACE: $15,000 · Community ImprovementHARRISON FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionGorham Ecumenical Food Pantry: $20,000 · Food & NutritionWayside Food Programs: $12,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY GOURMET: $11,901 · Food & NutritionLEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC: $47,156 · Crime & LegalCOMMONSPACE: $20,000 · HealthISLAND COMMONS RESOURCE CENTER: $7,500 · HealthPortland Community Squash: $18,148 · Recreation & SportsMAINE SENIOR GAMES: $7,500 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$702,258Other$217,522Community Improvement$90,000Food & Nutrition$63,901Crime & Legal$47,156Health$27,500Recreation & Sports$25,648

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECTRUM GENERATIONS: $104,179 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc: $83,036 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSENIORSPLUS: $80,076 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC: $47,156 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVET TO VET MAINE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetIn Her Presence: $35,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine: $32,775 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SANFORD-SPRINGVALE: $32,480 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPresente Maine: $22,099 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMaine Association for New Americans: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHARRISON FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGorham Ecumenical Food Pantry: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetYork County Shelter Programs Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYORK COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSOC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMONSPACE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHER SAFETY NET: $19,800 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetAK HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $19,650 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAGE FRIENDLY SACO: $19,600 over 1y, 15% of budgetPortland Community Squash: $18,148 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHURCH COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $17,540 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPROJECT GRACE: $15,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE SENIOR GAMES: $7,500 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetISLAND COMMONS RESOURCE CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetELDER ABUSE INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $7,491 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSWALK COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $5,400 over 1y, 2.9% 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 Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Good Shepherd Food Ba…United Way IncElmina B Sewall Found…Maine Health Access F…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Sam L Cohen FoundationBangor Savings Bank F…Simmons Foundation - …Fisher Charitable Fou…Saco & Biddeford Savi…
Maine Community Foundation IncME60× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · United Way Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable 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 Southern Maine Agency on Aging funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern Maine Agency on Aging. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    13report 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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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