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Waterville Area Women's Club at a glance

· Private foundation

Waterville Area Women's Club

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$47kEducation$44kYouth Development$18kHousing & Shelter$11kArts & Culture$8kRecreation & Sports$7kHealth$7kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$227k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES$11,200
MAINE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$10,000
WATERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
CAMP TO BELONG$2,200
OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,281
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ALFOND YOUTH CENTER$1,000
SHINEON CASS FOUNDATION$1,000
PINE TREE SOCIETY CAMP$1,000
CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM$1,000
WATERVILLE CREATES$1,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MID-MAINE$1,000
GIRL UP PROGRAM - MESSALONSKEE HIGH SCHOOL$700
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENNEBEC$600
MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME$500
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 (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MAINE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $7k → 12%CAMP TO BELONG: $3k → 12%CAMP TO BELONG: $2k → 12%CAMP TO BELONG: $2k → 12%CAMP TO BELONG: $1k → 12%CAMP TO BELONG: $1k → 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $500 → 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $500 → 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $500 → 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $500 → 12%NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE: $2k → 12%HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE: $1k → 12%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121k · 18 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

$121k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-13%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • FV
    FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +25%
  • CT
    CAMP TO BELONG MAINE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +0%
  • MH
    Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF WATERVILLE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • KV
    KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +57%
  • TN
    THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -11%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
6
Midcoast Maine Homeless Coalition

Midcoast Maine Homeless Coalition works to end the cycle of homelessness for individual families in Waldo County, Maine through innovation and collaboration around affordable housing and this program is designed to do just that. Family…

Housing & Shelter
7
Home Counselors Inc

To provide services to displaced youths and families in Maine counties.

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8
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
9
Homeworthy
Human Services
10
Shaw House

Helping homeless youth reach their potential by providing housing, case management, and support.

—
11
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodfords Family Services; the most unlike its peers is Betsy Ann Ross House of Hope dba Sisters in Arms Center. 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

21 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. 21 of the 42 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Waterville Public Library: $28,000 · OtherWaterville Public LibraryPINE TREE SOCIETY CAMP: $9,405 · OtherPINE TREE SOCIETY CAMPBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine: $9,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-MainePROJECT SPARROW: $8,000 · OtherPROJECT SPARROWOAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,321 · OtherOAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient: $5,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF WATERVILLE: $5,000 · OtherSUNSET HOME: $3,500 · Other+17 more: $21,900 · Other+17 moreFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $11,723 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJEC…MAINE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAINE COALITION TO END…CAMP TO BELONG MAINE INC: $8,700 · Human ServicesCAMP TO BELONG MAINE I…THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUS…HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE AR: $1,266 · Human ServicesWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $11,200 · EducationSHINEONCASS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENNEBEC: $600 · EducationCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWATERVILLE CREATES: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterBetsy Ann Ross House of Hope dba Sisters in Arms Center: $500 · Housing & ShelterKENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $2,500 · HealthINLAND HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT INLAND HOSPITAL: $2,200 · HealthDAY ONE: $1,000 · HealthALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC: $500 · Youth Development
Other$96,876Human Services$33,689Education$12,800Arts & Culture$8,000Housing & Shelter$7,500Health$5,700Youth Development$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $11,723 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $11,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine: $9,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP TO BELONG MAINE INC: $8,700 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetMid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $6,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINLAND HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT INLAND HOSPITAL: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERVILLE CREATES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE AR: $1,266 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY WATERVILLE AREA: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAY ONE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHINEONCASS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENNEBEC: $600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MAINE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
  • Who funds CAMP TO BELONG MAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds INLAND HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT INLAND HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERVILLE CREATES ↗
  • Who funds MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WATERVILLE AREA FOOD BANK D/B/A WATERVILLE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE AR ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY WATERVILLE AREA ↗
  • Who funds DAY ONE ↗
  • Who funds SHINEONCASS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENNEBEC ↗
  • Who funds HARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Betsy Ann Ross House of Hope dba Sisters in Arms Center ↗

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…Kennebec Savings Bank…Davis Family Foundati…United Way of Kennebe…Bill and Joan Alfond …John T Gorman Foundat…Bangor Savings Bank F…United Way of Mid-Mai…Lunder FoundationFranklin Savings Bank…Maine Health Access F…Agnes M Lindsay Trust
Maine Community Foundation IncME35.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · United Way of Kennebec Valley · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · United Way of Mid-Maine · Lunder Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

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 Waterville Area Women's Club funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waterville Area Women's Club. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 42 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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