Maine · Public charity
The Opportunity Alliance
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.
- $696k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $106,244
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Opportunity Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $696k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $525k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $530k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $923k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $922k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $891k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $830k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $450k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetser | $1,179,640 | 4 | 0% |
| OUT Maine | $741,640 | 9 | 20% |
| Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc | $540,256 | 6 | 2% |
| Healthy Acadia | $503,313 | 9 | 3% |
| Healthy Communities of the Capital Area | $424,191 | 7 | 8% |
| Penquis Cap Inc | $399,432 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Maine Health Care | $287,432 | 6 | 0% |
| Aroostook Mental Health Services Inc | $245,970 | 6 | 0% |
| Penobscot Indian Nation | $229,973 | 4 | n/a |
| MaineHealth | $209,135 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetser | $1,179,640 | 4 | 0% |
| OUT Maine | $741,640 | 9 | 20% |
| Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc | $540,256 | 6 | 2% |
| Healthy Acadia | $503,313 | 9 | 3% |
| Healthy Communities of the Capital Area | $424,191 | 7 | 8% |
| Penquis Cap Inc | $399,432 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Maine Health Care | $287,432 | 6 | 0% |
| Aroostook Mental Health Services Inc | $245,970 | 6 | 0% |
| Penobscot Indian Nation | $229,973 | 4 | n/a |
| MaineHealth | $209,135 | 4 | 0% |
| The Yellow Tulip Project | $200,856 | 3 | 31% |
| Healthy Community Coalition | $198,909 | 4 | 12% |
| Crossroads for Women Inc | $190,456 | 1 | 4% |
| University of Maine System Inc | $175,256 | 3 | n/a |
| Mobilize Recovery | $141,136 | 3 | 4% |
| River Coalition Inc | $133,080 | 3 | n/a |
| Aroostook County Action Program | $115,251 | 4 | 0% |
| Maine Recovery Access Project | $84,264 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine People's Resource Center | $43,807 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Conservation Alliance | $33,193 | 1 | 21% |
| Recovery Advocacy Project Inc | $29,750 | 2 | 3% |
Where it is load-bearing
The Opportunity Alliance supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Cancer Foundation · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Hudson Foundation · Peter Alfond Foundation
How this is measured
About The Opportunity Alliance
- How much does The Opportunity Alliance give?
- The Opportunity Alliance reported 12 grants totaling $695,612 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Opportunity Alliance fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (71%), Health (28%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are The Opportunity Alliance's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sweetser ($1.2M), OUT Maine ($742k), Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc ($540k).
- Does The Opportunity Alliance fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Opportunity Alliance?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Maine Health Access Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation.
- Where is The Opportunity Alliance based?
- The Opportunity Alliance is based in ME.
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