· Public charity
United Way of Kennebec Valley
UNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY unites people and resources to improve lives in our community.
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 · $41k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $791k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT | $51,863 |
| MAINEGENERAL | $45,144 |
| BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES | $44,479 |
| ALFOND YOUTH & COMM CENTER | $44,308 |
| SPECTRUM GENERATIONS | $44,191 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SUPPORT | $40,210 |
| 211 MAINE | $38,010 |
| KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $37,841 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER | $37,041 |
| KV COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $35,654 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS KENNEBEC VALLEY | $31,396 |
| SOUTHERN KENNEBEC CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $30,368 |
| STATE YMCA OF MAINE | $28,500 |
| KENNEBEC VALLEY YMCA | $27,889 |
| VASSALBORO MTHLY MEETING OF FRIENDS | $27,578 |
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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- BOBREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +62%
- CCChildren's Center Early Intervention & Family Support8× · 2017–2024 · $489k · revenue +149%
- SGSPECTRUM GENERATIONS8× · 2017–2024 · $426k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENNEBEC VALLEYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- IAIndependence Association Incone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +23%
- PCPENQUIS CAP INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -30%
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.
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…
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…
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.
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
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.
The mission of maine behavioral health organization is to provide evidence based services leading to increased quality of life; through research, advocacy, education, operated services, and participation in public mental health policy…
To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.
To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…
Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
The Agency provides a residential setting to assist adults with developmental disabilities to accomplish and maintain their highest attainable living skills and to improve their quality of life by supporting independence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Kennebec Child Development and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kennebec Valley. 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 42 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% 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 9% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 54 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 BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Support ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Kennebec Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN KENNEBEC CHILD DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds 211 Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds MaineGeneral Health and Affiliates ↗
- Who funds CRISIS AND COUNSELING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Northern NE ↗
- Who funds MOTIVATIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Rural Community Action Ministry ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENNEBEC ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
- Who funds WINTHROP FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA TEEN CENTER OF THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY FAMILY DENTISTRY ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MATTER INC ↗
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 · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · United Way of Mid-Maine · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Elsie & William Viles 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 Kennebec Valley 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.