· Public charity
Western Maine Community Action Inc
To advocate for, strengthen, and coordinate all resources private, local, state, and federal that will assist us in promoting the self-sufficiency of people.
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.
The 6 grants below total $217,979 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,236,973 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,018,994 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $114,583 |
| MAINE HEALTH ACCESS TO CARE | $64,026 |
| MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION | $12,624 |
| AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM | $11,434 |
| PENQUIS COMMUNITY ACTION | $9,841 |
| WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS | $5,471 |
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, $702k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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; $0 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
- CFCONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $438k · revenue +37%
- MHMaine Health Access Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $154k · revenue +2%
- PCPENQUIS CAP INC7× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- DCDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $54k · revenue +38%
- WHWASHINGTON HANCOCK COMMUNITY AGENCYone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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…
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…
To advocate for, strengthen, and coordinate all resources private, local, state, and federal that will assist us in promoting the self-sufficiency of people. a belief in basic human dignity and the exercise of free choice motivates the…
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.
Maine primary care association's mission is to champion and maximize the value of the statewide network of community health centers for the health and well-being of all maine people
To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.
Moc's mission is to empower families to achieve economic security by eliminating barriers and creating opportunities.
Providing Dental services to low-income individuals who are uninsured,underinsured, or have other significant financial barriers to accessing care.
A statewide organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of maine people by advocating for, promoting, and supporting the work of the maine community action agencies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downeast Community Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maine Health Access Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 18 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 CONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Health Access Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PENQUIS CAP INC ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds Healthy Community Coalition ↗
- Who funds WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds 211 Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE ROOT CELLAR ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Northern NE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HANCOCK COMMUNITY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MAINE INSIDE OUT ↗
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 · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Community Action Association Dba Maine Community Action Partnership · United Way Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Hudson Foundation · Heart of Maine United Way · Maine Cancer Foundation · Maine Children's 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 Western Maine Community Action Inc 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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