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Unity Foundation
Unity Foundation is a supporting organization for two public charities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $85,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $90,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's Discovery Museum | $25,000 |
| Avesta Housing | $15,000 |
| Local Media Foundation - BDN | $15,000 |
| Rural Aspirations Project | $10,000 |
| Points North Insitute | $10,000 |
| Camden Conference | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- JFJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $95k · revenue +107%
- CCCAMDEN CONFERENCE5× · 2017–2023 · $73k · revenue +51%
- WCWaldo County YMCA3× · 2018–2022 · $27k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- TCTHOMAS COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +27%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maineone grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue -23%
- TGTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +27%
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.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
The Maine Jewish Film Festival celebrates filmmakinginspiring conversation through the lens of global Jewish experience. Innovative programming invites a diverse statewide audience into the dialogue. Many of our programs include guest…
Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.
Founded in 1979, the Childrens House Montessori School cultivates curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in young learners, while nurturing a sense of care for each other, the environment, and the world.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Growsmart Maine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Will Home Association ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
- Who funds THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Waldo County YMCA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WATERVILLE CREATES ↗
- Who funds Points North Institute ↗
- Who funds Ecology Learning Center ↗
- Who funds LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Belfast Area Child Care Services Inc ↗
- Who funds AVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GROWSMART MAINE ↗
- Who funds Rural Aspirations Project ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MAINE ↗
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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall 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 Unity Foundation 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.