· Public charity
United Way of Aroostook
Collection of fund raising proceeds and distribution to qualified organizations and services to these organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $122,210 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $127,210 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE | $28,000 |
| ADOPT A BLOCK | $25,000 |
| HOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| AROOSTOOK AREA AGENCY ON AGING | $21,000 |
| AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| AROOSTOOK MEDICAL CENTER | $7,210 |
| ASHLAND AREA CAREGIVERS | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $617k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -95% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
- ACAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM9× · 2017–2025 · $237k · revenue +77%
- CCCatholic Charities Maine9× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +5%
- HAHOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $184k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- AFAID FOR KIDSone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -95%
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.
To work together to promote the well being of the community by providing health care, social and educational services, providing mental health substance abuse and residential services
To provide public transportation services throughout aroostook county
Shelter and care for abandoned pets
The aroostook partnership is the private/public partnership speaking with one voice and engaging the private sector leadership, talents, and resources in the region to ensure the economic survival and growth of aroostook county.
To provide quality affordable housing
Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.
Collection of fund raising proceeds and distribution to qualified organizations and services to these organizations.
Adoptive and foster families of maine inc. provides support services for adoptive and foster parents, and kinship providers. affm provides the training, guidance, knowledge, and resources needed to handle complex issues as families open…
The mission of the foundation is the construction of a 6-bed hospice residential facility which will provide twenty-four hour a day palliative and hospice care. the facility will have the capacity to provide approximately 1,460 to 2,190…
Emergency ambulance services for 911 response. We primarily serve the three adjacent communities of Mars Hill Blaine and Bridgewater Maine and the unorganized townships nearby.
Referral Service to assist in prevention of homelessness
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Aroostook Association and the most unlike its peers is Aid for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-BLOCK OF AROOSTOOK ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK INC ↗
- Who funds Aroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNCIL TO PREVENT CHILD D/B/A AROOSTOOK COUNCIL FOR HEALTHY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AROOSTOOK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN VALLEY ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BORDER TOWNS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AROOSTOOK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds AID FOR KIDS ↗
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 · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Aroostook 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.