· Public charity
United Way of Mid-Maine
The mission of UNITED WAY OF MID-MAINE is mobilzing our mid-maine community to improve outcomes in health, education, and financial stability.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $185,313 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $199,313 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,000 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENNEBEC VALLEY COMM ACTION PROGRAM | $56,250 |
| FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT | $24,500 |
| COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| SPECTRUM GENERATIONS | $14,000 |
| ALFOND YOUTH CENTER | $13,000 |
| THE MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME | $13,000 |
| KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SOMERSET COUNTY | $7,500 |
| MID-MAINE HOMELESS SHELTER | $7,063 |
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 (FY17–21, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 2 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 FY2021, 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
- KVKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM5× · 2017–2021 · $287k · revenue +75%
- KVKENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION5× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +265%
- AYALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $95k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- CCChildren's Center Early Intervention & Family Supportgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +149%
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…
To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
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 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.
Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.
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…
To provide services to displaced youths and families in Maine counties.
The mission of Safe Voices is to provide person-to-person, individualized advocacy for all survivors of domestic abuse and violence, sex trafficking, and sexual exploitation in Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties and engage our…
To provide quality affordable housing
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kennebec Valley Community Action Program and the most unlike its peers is Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County ↗
- Who funds Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE AR ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
- Who funds Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Support ↗
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 · United Way of Kennebec Valley · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Waterville Area Women's Club · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Heart of Maine United Way · Harold Alfond Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Lunder 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 Mid-Maine 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.