· Private foundation
Waterville Area Women's Club
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of WATERVILLE AREA WOMEN'S CLUB’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MID-MAINE | $1,000 |
| ALFOND YOUTH CENTER | $1,000 |
| PINE TREE SOCIETY CAMP | $1,000 |
| SHINEON CASS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| WATERVILLE CREATES | $1,000 |
| GIRL UP PROGRAM - MESSALONSKEE HIGH SCHOOL | $700 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENNEBEC | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- FVFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +25%
- CTCAMP TO BELONG MAINE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +0%
- MHMid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- COCITY OF WATERVILLEone grant, 2018 · $5k
- KVKENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +57%
- EEDUCAREone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
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.
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…
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…
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…
To provide services to displaced youths and families in Maine counties.
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.
Helping homeless youth reach their potential by providing housing, case management, and support.
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:…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodfords Family Services and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 42 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 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 SHINEONCASS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENNEBEC ↗
- Who funds Betsy Ann Ross House of Hope dba Sisters in Arms 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 · 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
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 Waterville Area Women's Club 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.