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University of Maine Foundation
The University of Maine Foundation, acting as a separate organization, will work collaboratively with all entities to encourage philanthropic support for the University of Maine and other charitable organizations while carrying out the donor's wishes in perpetuity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
- $250k+2 grants · $22M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Maine | $12,805,408 |
| University of Maine | $9,272,349 |
| Ahavas Achim Society of Brotherly Love | $37,000 |
| United Methodist Church | $21,567 |
| Potato Association of America | $16,467 |
| Town of Searsmont | $10,783 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $138M
- AAAHAVAS ACHIM SOCIETY OF BROTHERLY LOVE CO GROSS MINSKY & MOGUL PA6× · 2018–2024 · $172k · 39% of their budget
- UMUnited Methodist Church8× · 2017–2024 · $141k
Funded once
- TGTMS GLOBAL INCone grant, 2020 · $366k
- COCITY OF BANGORone grant, 2018 · $248k
- KVKennebec Valley YMCAone grant, 2020 · $128k · revenue +18%
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 enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Keene Endowment Association (KEA) helps donors to provide scholarships for Keene State College (KSC) students and resources to enhance their education. The KEA Board also helps to give donors the assurance that their philanthropy will make…
To inspire and enable our communities to discover, learn and connect.
Educating students and communities about the connections between the ocean, inland waters, and economy of maine.
Christian education
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
The mission of the kennebunk beach improvement association (kbia) is to create safe, supportive, and exciting "summers of discovery" for children and their families, through high quality affordable educational and enrichment programs…
Community credit union is a member owned organization that strives to provide financial services to ensure stability for all members, employees and communities at all stages of life.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
Equipping Maine learners with the confidence and skills to realize their full potential.
To provide scholarships to qualifying Kennebec Valley Community College (KVCC) students and financial support to the College to use in support of academic programs, capital investment and college operations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alfond Youth & Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Potato Association of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 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 AHAVAS ACHIM SOCIETY OF BROTHERLY LOVE CO GROSS MINSKY & MOGUL PA ↗
- Who funds Kennebec Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CHOP POINT INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN EDUCATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KENTS HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MaineGeneral Health and Affiliates ↗
- Who funds POTATO ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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 · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 University of Maine 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.
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