· Public charity
United Way of Androscoggin County Inc
The united way of androscoggin county's mission is to increase the organized capacity of people who live in androscoggin and oxford counties to care for one another.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $547k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY CONCEPTS INC | $95,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $57,715 |
| ANDROSCOGGIN HEAD START & CHILD CARE (PROMISE EARLY EDUCATION) | $46,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $45,000 |
| YMCA | $42,500 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER | $40,000 |
| RURAL COMMUNITY ACTION MINISTRY | $37,450 |
| SENIORS PLUS | $33,875 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AUBURNLEWISTON | $33,100 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES (SEARCHST FRANCIS HOUSE) | $32,875 |
| TRINITY JUBILEE CENTER | $31,000 |
| UNITED WAY EDUCATION GRANTS | $30,099 |
| 211 MAINE | $29,451 |
| SAFE VOICES | $27,500 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $18,650 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
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
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
- NBNew Beginnings8× · 2017–2024 · $429k · revenue +56%
- AHAndroscoggin Head Start and Child Care8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +61%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUBURN-LEWISTON8× · 2017–2024 · $318k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- HKHELPING KIDS BEAT SUMMER SLIDESone grant, 2021 · $75k
- DODAY OF GIVING-FOOD INSECURITYone grant, 2021 · $26k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
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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…
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Provide low-income defendants assistance in obtaining pretrial release and supervision.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Maine and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of Maine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 38 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 New Beginnings ↗
- Who funds Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUBURN-LEWISTON ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND RESPONSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Rural Community Action Ministry ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds 211 Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Concepts Inc ↗
- Who funds Trinity Jubilee Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIORSPLUS ↗
- Who funds Safe Voices ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
- Who funds SANDCASTLE CLINICAL & EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds AREA IV MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES COALITION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds St Mary's Health System ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEDFORD HOUSING ↗
- Who funds YWCA Central Maine ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Western Maine Transportation Services Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
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 · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Androscoggin Bank's Mainstreet Fdn Portland Trust Company LLC · Good Shepherd Food Bank · United Way Inc · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development 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 United Way of Androscoggin County 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.