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· Public charity

United Way of Tri Vally Area

The mission is to improve peoples lives by focusing the caring capacity of our communities.

$154k
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2021 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $77,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $154,037 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,037 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 $10k12 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$4,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$306k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WESTERN MAINE TRASNSPORTATION SVCS$4,500
HEALTHY COMMUNITY COALITION$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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SENIORS PLUS: $9k → 13%SENIORS PLUS: $8k → 13%SeniorsPlus: $8k → 13%SeniorsPlus: $8k → 13%SeniorsPlus: $7k → 13%RURAL COMMUNITY ACTION MINISTRY: $3k → 13%Western Maine Community Action: $9k → 14%WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $9k → 14%WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $8k → 14%Western Maine Community Action: $7k → 14%Western Maine Community Action: $5k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$426k · 15 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$426k
$6k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FC
    FRANKLIN CTY CHILDRENS TASK FORCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +34%
  • SP
    SENIORS PLUS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +60%
  • WM
    Western Maine Community Action
    8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CA
    Childrens Advocacy Center
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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
Preble Street

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.

Human Services
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Mainely Teeth Llc

Providing Dental services to low-income individuals who are uninsured,underinsured, or have other significant financial barriers to accessing care.

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7
Maine Needs Inc

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:…

Human Services
8
Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc

Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.

Housing & Shelter
9
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
10
Family Violence Project

To end domestic abuse in kennebec and somerset counties.

Human Services
11
Alternatives Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Community Health and Counseling Services

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Maine Community Action Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United MethEcumenical Min: $39,000 · OtherUnited MethEcumenical MinSafe Voices: $37,945 · OtherSafe VoicesSexual Assault Prev and Resp: $31,000 · OtherSexual Assault Prev and RespVarious Organizations: $30,307 · OtherVarious OrganizationsChildrens Advocacy Center: $24,750 · OtherChildrens Advocacy CenterHealthy CommCoalition: $22,500 · OtherHealthy CommCoalitionWestern Maine Homeless Outrea: $10,800 · Other+3 more: $14,000 · Other+3 moreSENIORS PLUS: $39,500 · Human ServicesSENIORS PLUSWestern Maine Community Action: $38,500 · Human ServicesWestern Maine Commun…RURAL COMMUNITY ACTION MINISTRY: $3,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY DENTAL: $30,300 · HealthCOMMUNITY DENTA…Work FirstInc: $19,266 · HealthWork FirstIncKENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL CENTER: $9,250 · HealthKENNEBEC BEHAVI…FRANKLIN CTY CHILDRENS TASK FORCE: $58,700 · Crime & LegalFRANKLIN CTY CH…LITERACY VOLUNTEERS: $21,500 · EducationCare and Share Food Closet: $12,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$210,302Human Services$81,000Health$58,816Crime & Legal$58,700Education$21,500Food & Nutrition$12,500

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 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
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.

  • Who funds FRANKLIN CTY CHILDRENS TASK FORCE ↗
  • Who funds SENIORS PLUS ↗
  • Who funds Western Maine Community Action ↗
  • Who funds Safe Voices ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ↗
  • Who funds Work FirstInc ↗
  • Who funds Care and Share Food Closet ↗
  • Who funds Western Maine Homeless Outrea ↗
  • Who funds KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RURAL COMMUNITY ACTION MINISTRY ↗

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…Franklin Savings Bank…John T Gorman Foundat…United Way of Androsc…Fisher Charitable Fou…Helen and George Ladd…Maine Health Access F…Bangor Savings Bank F…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Tri Vally Area funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Tri Vally Area. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 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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