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UNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK
The mission of UNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK is to mobilize resources to improve the lives of people in our communities by raising funds and focus on the building blocks of a good life, education, income and health.
$141k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants
1
Communities
$31k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of UNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
personnelshelter
2020
personnelshelter
2021
shelterpersonnel
2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
$21,913
Median grant
1
States reached
$372k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE$31,000
- ADOPT A BLOCK$25,000
- HOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK$24,960
- AROOSTOOK AREA AGENCY ON AGING$21,913
- HOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT$15,000
- AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM$12,528
- CENTRAL AROOSTOOK ASSOCIATION$8,996
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -98% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
2
Total granted
$1.1M
$30k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+30%
-98%
Still filing today
77%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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 PROGRAM6× · 2018–2023 · $178k · revenue +81%
- HSHOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK6× · 2018–2023 · $133k · revenue +33%
- AADOPT-A-BLOCK5× · 2018–2023 · $111k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- HNHELPING NEIGHBORSone grant, 2018 · $18k
- AFAIDS FOR KIDSone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -98%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
The Aroostook Medical Center
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
2
Aroostook Mental Health
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
Health
3
Houlton Regional Hospital
Houlton Regional Hospital's purpose is to provide safe, compassionate, quality, cost effective care to communities we serve. We are dedicated to improving the health status of those we support through eduaction, treatment and…
Health
4
Central Aroostook Humane Society
Shelter and care for abandoned pets
Animals
5
Aroostook Regional Transportation
To provide public transportation services throughout aroostook county
Human Services
6
Southern Maine Affordable Housing
Affordable housing development and management
Housing & Shelter
7
Sebasticook Valley Health
Sebasticook Valley Health d/b/a Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital is a critical access hospital whose mission is to be the regional leader in meeting the health needs of our communities, providing quality care, always treating…
Health
8
Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities
The Hospital is a not-for-profit entity established to provide health care services through its acute care facility and physician practices.
Health
9
Maine Veterans Home
Maine Veterans' Homes provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation, long term care, memory care, pharmacy support and consultation, and assisted living services for veterans and eligible family members at six facilities across Maine.
Health
10
Adoptive & Foster Families of Maine
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…
Human Services
11
Orono Baseball Association
Provide organized baseball for local youth
Youth Development
12
Lowell Area Housing Inc
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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.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$573,061Human Services$342,768Crime & Legal$216,992Youth Development$25,500
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 HOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-BLOCK ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AROOSTOOK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNCIL FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN VALLEY ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PRESQUE ISLE ↗
- Who funds AIDS 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.
Maine Community Foundation IncME21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · John T Gorman Foundation · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PRESQUE ISLE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 260250671 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PRESQUE ISLE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to United Way of Aroostook?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Aroostook through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines