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· Public charity

United Way of Aroostook

Collection of fund raising proceeds and distribution to qualified organizations and services to these organizations.

$127k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$743kHousing & Shelter$265kFood & Nutrition$168kCrime & Legal$85kPublic Safety & Disaster$81kEmployment$34kYouth Development$26kHealth$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $122,210, the rows itemized in this filing. The $127,210 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
$21,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$412k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%ADOPT A BLOCK: $25k → 15%ADOPT A BLOCK: $25k → 15%ADOPT A BLOCK: $25k → 15%ADOPT-A-BLOCK: $23k → 15%ADOPT-A-BLOCK: $23k → 15%ADOPT A BLOCK: $21k → 15%ADOPT-A-BLOCK: $20k → 15%ADOPT-A-BLOCK: $20k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE: $31k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE: $31k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE: $28k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE: $28k → 15%AROOSTOOK AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $22k → 15%AROOSTOOK AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $21k → 15%AROOSTOOK AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $21k → 15%AROOSTOOK AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $20k → 15%AROOSTOOK AAA: $17k → 15%AROOSTOOK AAA: $15k → 15%AROOSTOOK AAA: $13k → 15%AROOSTOOK AAA: $12k → 15%MEALS ON WHEELS: $11k → 15%CENTRAL AROOSTOOK ASSOCIATION: $9k → 15%CENTRAL AROOSTOOK ASSOCIATION: $9k → 15%CENTRAL AROOSTOOK ARC: $8k → 15%CENTRAL AROOSTOOK ARC: $8k → 15%CENTRAL AROOSTOOK ARC: $8k → 15%CENTRAL AROOSTOOK ARC: $8k → 15%CENTRAL AROOSTOOK ARC: $8k → 15%RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: $6k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $27k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $22k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $19k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 15%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 15 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -95% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$1.6M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
-95%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AC
    AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $237k · revenue +77%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities Maine
    9× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +5%
  • HA
    HOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $184k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • AF
    AID FOR KIDS
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -95%
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
Aroostook Mental Health Services Inc

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
2
Aroostook Regional Transportation

To provide public transportation services throughout aroostook county

Human Services
3
Central Aroostook Humane Society

Shelter and care for abandoned pets

Animals
4
Aroostook Partnership

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.

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5
Foundation for the Aroostook Agency On Aging Inc

To offer recomendations to older adults to improve the quality of life, maximize independence, and promote the well-being of older people in northern maine.

Health
6
Southern Maine Affordable Housing

To provide quality affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
7
Community Health and Counseling Services

Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.

Health
8
Friends of Aroostook
Education
9
United Way of Aroostook

Collection of fund raising proceeds and distribution to qualified organizations and services to these organizations.

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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
Aroostook Hospice Foundation

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…

Human Services
12
Eastern Area Agency on Aging

It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Aroostook Association; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $184,000 · OtherHOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT INCVARIOUS OTHER GRANTS: $182,351 · OtherVARIOUS OTHER GRANTSHOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK INC: $166,460 · OtherHOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $46,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHELPING NEIGHBORS: $35,000 · OtherST JOHN VALLEY ASSOCIATES INC: $34,000 · Other+3 more: $42,180 · Other+3 moreCatholic Charities Maine: $220,750 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities MaineADOPT-A-BLOCK OF AROOSTOOK: $181,363 · Human ServicesADOPT-A-BLOCK OF AROOSTOOKAroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc: $156,413 · Human ServicesAroostook Area Agency on Aging IncCENTRAL AROOSTOOK ASSOCIATION: $57,992 · Human ServicesCENTRAL AROOSTOOK ASSOCIATIONAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $236,503 · Crime & LegalAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACT…AROOSTOOK COUNCIL TO PREVENT CHILD D/B/A AROOSTOOK COUNCIL FOR HEALTHY: $64,000 · Crime & LegalAROOSTOOK COUNCIL TO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BORDER TOWNS: $25,500 · Youth Development
Other$689,991Human Services$616,518Crime & Legal$300,503Youth Development$25,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $236,503 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine: $220,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $184,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetADOPT-A-BLOCK OF AROOSTOOK: $181,363 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetHOMELESS SERVICES OF AROOSTOOK INC: $166,460 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetAroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc: $156,413 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetAROOSTOOK COUNCIL TO PREVENT CHILD D/B/A AROOSTOOK COUNCIL FOR HEALTHY: $64,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCENTRAL AROOSTOOK ASSOCIATION: $57,992 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHN VALLEY ASSOCIATES INC: $34,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BORDER TOWNS: $25,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetCENTRAL AROOSTOOK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $18,180 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetAID FOR KIDS: $12,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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 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 ↗

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…Good Shepherd Food Ba…John T Gorman Foundat…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover 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 · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of Aroostook funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Aroostook. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 16 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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