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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.

$199k
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$570kHealth$311kYouth Development$121kHousing & Shelter$50k
02FY2021 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $185,313, the rows itemized in this filing. The $199,313 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,000 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–21, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $25k → 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $25k → 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $18k → 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $14k → 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $14k → 12%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMM ACTION PROGRAM: $63k → 12%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMM ACTION PROGRAM: $63k → 12%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMM ACTION PROGRAM: $56k → 12%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMM ACTION PROGRAM: $56k → 12%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMM ACTION PROGRAM: $49k → 12%HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE: $10k → 12%HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE: $10k → 12%HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE: $7k → 12%HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE: $7k → 12%HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE: $7k → 12%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.
$1.0M · 13 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
1

Total granted

$1.0M
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+149%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • KV
    KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
    5× · 2017–2021 · $287k · revenue +66%
  • KV
    KENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +265%
  • AY
    ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $95k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • CC
    Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Supportgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +149%
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
Penobscot Community Health Center

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…

Health
2
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
3
Maine Behavioral Health Organization

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…

Health
4
The Opportunity Alliance

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.

Human Services
5
Community Health and Counseling Services

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

Health
6
Maine Council on Aging

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…

Unclassified
7
Home Counselors Inc

To provide services to displaced youths and families in Maine counties.

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8
Homeworthy
Human Services
9
Safe Voices

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…

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10
Southern Maine Affordable Housing

To provide quality affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
11
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

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…

Health
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 Kennebec Valley Community Action Program; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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.

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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $286,750 · Human ServicesKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $95,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECTSPECTRUM GENERATIONS: $72,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM GENERATIONSCatholic Charities Maine: $42,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities MaineHOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE AR: $39,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE ARKENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION: $100,000 · HealthKENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL…KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $55,000 · HealthKENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL…SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SUPPORT CENTER: $49,000 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS …Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Support: $8,700 · HealthMAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $81,858 · OtherMAINE CHILDREN'S …Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County: $51,000 · OtherHospice Volunteer…Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine: $26,100 · OtherBig Brothers Big …ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $95,100 · Youth DevelopmentALFOND YOU…Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc: $49,813 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$535,250Health$212,700Other$158,958Youth Development$95,100Housing & Shelter$49,813

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 budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $286,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION: $100,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $95,100 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $95,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $81,858 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSPECTRUM GENERATIONS: $72,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Volunteers of Somerset County: $51,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetMid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc: $49,813 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS & SUPPORT CENTER: $49,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine: $42,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE AR: $39,500 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine: $26,100 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetChildren's Center Early Intervention & Family Support: $8,700 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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…United Way of Kennebe…Bangor Savings Bank F…Kennebec Savings Bank…John T Gorman Foundat…Waterville Area Women…Franklin Savings Bank…Maine Health Access F…Heart of Maine United…Harold Alfond Foundat…Bill and Joan Alfond …Lunder Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME28.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mid-Maine funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Mid-Maine. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 14 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports $164k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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