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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$106k
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 2025.

Youth Development$4.4MHealth$1.7MHuman Services$45k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $471k
$45,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUT Maine$106,244
Yellow Tulip Project$98,125
University of Southern Maine$95,162
Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness$86,740
Maine Recovery Access Project$84,264
Maine Immigrant's Rights Coalition$45,000
Maine People's Resource Center$43,807
Maine Conservation Alliance$33,193
Mobilize Recovery$32,802
Healthy Acadia$32,000
Penquis CAP Inc$24,056
Aroostook Mental Health Services Inc$14,219
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Recovery Advocacy Project Inc: $18k → 13%Recovery Advocacy Project Inc: $12k → 13%Sweetser: $323k → 9%Sweetser: $294k → 9%Maine Immigrant's Rights Coalition: $45k → 7%Sweetser: $284k → 9%Sweetser: $279k → 9%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 17 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
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Total granted

$5.8M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+12%

Still filing today

76%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • OM
    OUT Maine
    9× · 2017–2025 · $742k · revenue +205%
  • WH
    WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $540k · revenue +239%
  • HA
    HEALTHY ACADIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $503k · revenue +264%

Funded once

  • CF
    Crossroads for Women Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $190k · revenue +12%
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
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
2
Maine Quality Counts

Maine Quality Counts is transforming health and healthcare in Maine by leading, collaborating, and aligning improvement efforts.

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3
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
4
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.

Human Services
5
Rushford Center Inc

Rushford Center, Inc., is dedicated to meeting the substance abuse and mental health needs of children, adults and families. Working cooperatively with our Hartford HealthCare network partners and others who share our goals, Rushford…

Health
6
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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7
Foundation for Healthy Communities

The mission of the Foundation for Healthy Communities is to build healthier communities for all by leading partnerships, fostering collaboration, and creating innovative solutions to advance health and health care.

Health
8
Maine Mobile Health Program Inc

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

Health
9
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
10
Family Planning Association of Maine Inc

To ensure that all maine people have access to high-quality, affordable reproductive health care, comprehensive sexual health education, and the right to control their reproductive lives.

Health
11
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital

We advance health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships, providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health
12
The Aroostook Medical Center Northern Light Ar Gould Hospital

The mission of the Aroostook Medical Center d/b/a Northern Light A.R. Gould Hospital is to restore, maintain, and improve the health of our friends and neighbors in a compassionate and professional environment.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc; the most unlike its peers is Mobilize Recovery. 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

18 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. 18 of the 22 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)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC: $540,256 · HealthWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPCHEALTHY ACADIA: $503,313 · HealthHEALTHY ACADIAAROOSTOOK MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $245,970 · HealthAROOSTOOK MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INCMaineHealth: $209,135 · HealthMaineHealthThe Yellow Tulip Project: $200,856 · HealthThe Yellow Tulip ProjectHealthy Community Coalition: $198,909 · HealthHealthy Community CoalitionCrossroads for Women Inc: $190,456 · HealthCrossroads for Women IncMOBILIZE RECOVERY: $141,136 · HealthMOBILIZE RECOVERYSweetser: $1,179,640 · Human ServicesSweetserPENQUIS CAP INC: $399,432 · Human ServicesPENQUIS CAP INC+2 more: $74,750 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN MAINE HEALTH CARE: $287,432 · OtherSOUTHERN MAINE HE…PENOBSCOT INDIAN NATION: $229,973 · OtherPENOBSCOT INDIAN …UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $175,256 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAI…RIVER COALITION INC: $133,080 · OtherRIVER COALITION I…MAINE RECOVERY ACCESS PROJECT: $84,264 · OtherMAINE RECOVERY AC…MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $43,807 · OtherOUT Maine: $741,640 · PhilanthropyOUT MaineHealthy Communities of the Capital Area: $424,191 · InternationalAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $115,251 · Crime & LegalMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $33,193 · Environment
Health$2,230,031Human Services$1,653,822Other$953,812Philanthropy$741,640International$424,191Crime & Legal$115,251Environment$33,193

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSweetser: $1,179,640 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOUT Maine: $741,640 over 9y, 20% of budgetWABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC: $540,256 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetHEALTHY ACADIA: $503,313 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetHealthy Communities of the Capital Area: $424,191 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetPENQUIS CAP INC: $399,432 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN MAINE HEALTH CARE: $287,432 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAROOSTOOK MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $245,970 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMaineHealth: $209,135 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Yellow Tulip Project: $200,856 over 3y, 31% of budgetHealthy Community Coalition: $198,909 over 4y, 12% of budgetCrossroads for Women Inc: $190,456 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMOBILIZE RECOVERY: $141,136 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $115,251 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $33,193 over 1y, 21% of budgetRECOVERY ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $29,750 over 2y, 2.8% 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 Sweetser ↗
  • Who funds OUT Maine ↗
  • Who funds WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY ACADIA ↗
  • Who funds Healthy Communities of the Capital Area ↗
  • Who funds PENQUIS CAP INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN MAINE HEALTH CARE ↗
  • Who funds AROOSTOOK MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds The Yellow Tulip Project ↗
  • Who funds Healthy Community Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Crossroads for Women Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOBILIZE RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗

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…Maine Health Access F…Elmina B Sewall Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Maine Cancer Foundati…Harvard Pilgrim Healt…Onion FoundationMaine InitiativesincThe Celia Lipton Farr…Bangor Savings Bank F…The Hudson FoundationPeter Alfond Foundati…
Maine Community Foundation IncME33.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 The Opportunity Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Opportunity Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    5report 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 22 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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