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United Way of Tri Vally Area

The mission is to improve peoples lives by focusing the caring capacity of our communities. The organization meets its mission in two ways: fundraising and by bringing people together to identify and address community needs.

$154k
Granted FY2021
13
Itemized grants FY2021
13
Organizations funded FY2021
23%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$77k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$11,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 13
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$306k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 23% of the organizations United Way of Tri Vally Area funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
EducationFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202113$77k23%
FY202012$94k17%
FY201912$106k8%
FY201812$99k33%
FY20179$67kn/a
97% 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$172kCrime & Legal$99kHealth$81kEducation$22kFood & Nutrition$13kReligion$11kHousing & Shelter$11kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Franklin Cty Childrens Task Force$58,70081%
Seniors Plus$39,50080%
United MethEcumenical Min$39,0004n/a
Western Maine Community Action$38,50080%
Safe Voices$37,94580%
Sexual Assault Prev and Resp$31,0008n/a
Community Dental$30,30080%
Childrens Advocacy Center$24,75071%
Healthy CommCoalition$22,5007n/a
Literacy Volunteers$21,5005n/a
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All grantees of United Way of Tri Vally Area by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Franklin Cty Childrens Task Force$58,70081%
Seniors Plus$39,50080%
United MethEcumenical Min$39,0004n/a
Western Maine Community Action$38,50080%
Safe Voices$37,94580%
Sexual Assault Prev and Resp$31,0008n/a
Community Dental$30,30080%
Childrens Advocacy Center$24,75071%
Healthy CommCoalition$22,5007n/a
Literacy Volunteers$21,5005n/a
Work FirstInc$19,26621%
Care and Share Food Closet$12,50029%
Western Maine Homeless Outrea$10,80023%
Kennebec Behavioral Center$9,25050%
Rural Community Action Ministry$3,00041%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Tri Vally Area supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFranklin Cty Childrens Task Force: $58,700 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSeniors Plus: $39,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Maine Community Action: $38,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Voices: $37,945 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Dental: $30,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center: $24,750 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetWork FirstInc: $19,266 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCare and Share Food Closet: $12,500 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetWestern Maine Homeless Outrea: $10,800 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetKennebec Behavioral Center: $9,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRural Community Action Ministry: $3,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 Foundation IncME26.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · United Way of Androscoggin County Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Helen and George Ladd Charitable 0720995 Charitable Corporation #0720995 · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · 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.

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About United Way of Tri Vally Area

How much does United Way of Tri Vally Area give?
United Way of Tri Vally Area reported 13 itemized grants totaling $77,000, out of $154,037 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does United Way of Tri Vally Area fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Crime & Legal (22%), Health (18%).
Who are United Way of Tri Vally Area's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Franklin Cty Childrens Task Force ($59k), Seniors Plus ($40k), United MethEcumenical Min ($39k).
Does United Way of Tri Vally Area fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Tri Vally Area?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation, John T Gorman Foundation.
Where is United Way of Tri Vally Area based?
United Way of Tri Vally Area is based in ME.

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 19 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 (FY2024) is on record and reports $29k 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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