· Public charity
United Way of Tri Vally Area
The mission is to improve peoples lives by focusing the caring capacity of our communities.
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 13 grants below total $77,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $154,037 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,037 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 $10k12 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS | $11,500 |
| FRANKLIN CTY CHILDRENS TASK FORCE | $9,200 |
| WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION | $8,800 |
| SENIORS PLUS | $8,000 |
| SAFE VOICES | $6,500 |
| COMMUNITY DENTAL | $5,500 |
| HEALTHY COMMUNITY COALITION | $4,500 |
| WESTERN MAINE TRASNSPORTATION SVCS | $4,500 |
| KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL CENTER | $4,250 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT PREV AND RESP | $4,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $4,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $3,250 |
| RURAL COMMUNITY ACTION MINISTRY | $3,000 |
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, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY CHILDRENS TASK FORCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +34%
- SSENIORSPLUS8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +60%
- WMWESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CAChildrens Advocacy Centerone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.
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.
To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
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 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 Dental services to low-income individuals who are uninsured,underinsured, or have other significant financial barriers to accessing care.
We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…
Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.
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 end domestic abuse in kennebec and somerset counties.
Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.
Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Maine Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kennebec Valley Mental Health Cente D/B/a Kennebec Behavioral Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 FRANKLIN COUNTY CHILDRENS TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds SENIORSPLUS ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Voices ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND RESPONSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds WORK FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds CARE & SHARE FOOD CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds Western Maine Homeless Outreach ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Rural Community Action Ministry ↗
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 · 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
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 Tri Vally Area 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.