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Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization

Support the Maine Community Foundation (MCF) and its charitable and educational purposes.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$969kEducation$647kHuman Services$340kYouth Development$202kArts & Culture$164kFood & Nutrition$69kInternational$18kCivil Rights$15kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$123k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $312,443 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $322,443 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine$150,000
Portland Community Squash$15,000
St Joseph's College of Maine$15,000
Mainely Smiles$10,000
Best Buddies International - Maine Chapter$10,000
Preble Street$10,000
North Yarmouth Academy$10,000
Community Dental$10,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank$10,000
I'm Your Neighbor Books$10,000
Woodfords Family Sevices$10,000
Hospice of Southern Maine$10,000
Milestone Recovery$10,000
LearningWorks$9,341
Royal River Community Players$8,102
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LearningWorks: $9k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $15k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $10k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $10k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $10k → 7%Hospice of Southern Maine: $8k → 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $8k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $5k → 7%Preble Street: $20k → 7%Preble Street: $20k → 7%Preble Street: $10k → 7%Maine Recovery Fund: $10k → 7%Olympia Snowe Womens Leadership Institute: $8k → 7%LearningWorks: $5k → 7%LearningWorks: $5k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $10k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $6k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $6k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $5k → 7%Wayfinder Schools: $5k → 7%Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $5k → 7%Riding To The Top Therapeutic Riding Center: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 26 repeat orgs$891k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
39

Total granted

$1.7M
$813k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    2× · 2018–2020 · $510k · revenue +167%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine
    2× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +341%
  • PS
    PREBLE STREET
    8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • University of New England
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +20%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +22%
  • MH
    MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Maine Media College

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…

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2
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.

Human Services
3
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…

Health
4
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
5
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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6
Maine Arts Academy

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…

Education
7
Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health
8
Maine & Company

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…

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9
Maine Pretrial Services

Provide low-income defendants assistance in obtaining pretrial release and supervision.

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10
Autism Society of Maine d/b/a Asm

The Autism Society of Maine provides education and resources to support the valued lives of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.

Human Services
11
Maine Council on Aging

A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…

Unclassified
12
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is I'm Your Neighbor Books. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr14%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr14%49%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
10%
231/2,205

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
57/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MaineHealth — $510,000 · HealthMaineHealthMILESTONE RECOVERY — $150,000 · HealthMILESTONE RECOVERYMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital — $105,000 · HealthMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospit…+13 more — $203,938 · Health+13 moreUniversity of New England — $500,000 · EducationUniversity of New EnglandNORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY — $60,000 · EducationNORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMYTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine — $45,000 · EducationTrustees of Saint Joseph's C…+3 more — $41,936 · Education+3 morePREBLE STREET — $150,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREETHospice of Southern Maine — $53,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Sout…The Opportunity Alliance — $27,000 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…LEARNINGWORKS — $19,341 · Human ServicesLEARNINGWORKSCatholic Charities Maine — $16,000 · Human Services+7 more — $50,000 · Human Services+7 moreBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine — $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen Center Inc — $20,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $21,612 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $35,716 · Arts & CultureMAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $26,750 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of Art — $22,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Academy of Modern Music — $10,013 · Arts & CultureIndigo Arts Alliance — $10,000 · Arts & CultureI'm Your Neighbor Books — $10,000 · Arts & Culture317 Main St Community Center Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureROYAL RIVER COMMUNITY PLAYERS — $8,102 · Arts & CulturePortland School of Ballet — $6,807 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE STATE BALLET — $17,500 · OtherFRANNIE PEABODY CENTER — $15,000 · OtherMaine Charitable Mechanic Association — $12,100 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $10,000 · OtherFIFTH MAINE REGIMENT MUSEUM — $7,500 · OtherKIDS FIRST CENTER — $7,500 · OtherBest Buddies International Inc — $10,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC — $7,520 · OtherPORTLAND WHEELERS — $15,000 · OtherPortland Community Squash — $15,000 · OtherGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $10,000 · OtherAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $8,500 · Other+7 more — $35,000 · OtherGood Shepherd Food Bank — $61,250 · Food & NutritionWayside Food Programs — $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Health$968,938Education$646,936Human Services$340,341Youth Development$201,612Arts & Culture$164,388Other$170,620Food & Nutrition$68,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMaineHealth — $510,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine — $160,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $150,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMILESTONE RECOVERY — $150,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital — $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $61,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine — $53,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $35,716 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPORTLAND RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER — $31,143 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPortland Community Health Center — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL — $28,995 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance — $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $26,750 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Yellow Tulip Project — $25,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMONSPACE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLEARNINGWORKS — $19,341 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE STATE BALLET — $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPortland Public Library — $16,936 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND WHEELERS — $15,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFalmouth Memorial Library Association — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPortland Community Squash — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRANNIE PEABODY CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Charitable Mechanic Association — $12,100 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMaine Academy of Modern Music — $10,013 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetIndigo Arts Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Recovery Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMAINELY SMILES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRestorative Justice Project Maine — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI'm Your Neighbor Books — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget317 Main St Community Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetShalom House Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDING TO THE TOP — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL RIVER COMMUNITY PLAYERS — $8,102 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC — $7,520 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIFTH MAINE REGIMENT MUSEUM — $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Saco & Biddeford Savi…Simmons Foundation - …Fisher Charitable Fou…United Way IncJohn T Gorman Foundat…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Virginia Hodgkins Som…Bangor Savings Bank F…Elmina B Sewall Found…
Maine Community Foundation IncME100.9× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · United Way Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank 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 Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization?

Find your warmest path to Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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