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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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$866kHealth$716kCrime & Legal$38kCommunity Improvement$30kArts & Culture$10kEmployment$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $217,979, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,236,973 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,018,994 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $179k
$12,624
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%The Opportunity Alliance: $53k → 7%York County Community Action Corp: $53k → 9%MidCoast Maine Community Action: $50k → 9%Downeast Community Partners: $54k → 11%MAINE IMMAGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES: $15k → 13%Waldo Community Action Partners: $42k → 13%Penquis: $53k → 15%The Opportunity Alliance: $40k → 7%York County Community Action Corp: $40k → 9%MidCoast Maine Community Action: $43k → 9%Waldo Community Action Partners: $33k → 13%Penquis: $40k → 15%York County Community Action Corp: $11k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $13k → 9%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $50k → 12%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $6k → 13%Penquis: $6k → 15%The Opportunity Alliance: $11k → 7%York County Community Action Corp: $8k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $7k → 9%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $43k → 12%Waldo Community Action Partners: $6k → 13%MidCoast Maine Community Action: $6k → 9%Waldo Community Action Partners: $6k → 13%MidCoast Maine Community Action: $6k → 9%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $5k → 13%The Opportunity Alliance: $5k → 7%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 16 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
2

Total granted

$1.6M
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+38%

Still filing today

94%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • CF
    CONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $438k · revenue +37%
  • MH
    MAINE HEALTH ACCESS TO CARE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $154k · revenue +2%
  • P
    Penquis
    7× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • DC
    Downeast Community Partnersgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $54k · revenue +38%
  • WC
    Washington-Hancock Community Agency
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
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
2
MaineHealth

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…

Health
3
Making Opportunity Count Inc

Moc's mission is to empower families to achieve economic security by eliminating barriers and creating opportunities.

Human Services
4
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
5
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers

To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.

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6
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
7
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. a belief in basic human dignity and the exercise of free choice motivates the…

Human Services
8
Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence

The maine coalition to end domestic violence (mcedv) mobilizes collaborative community action with and on behalf of a statewide network of domestic violence resource centers to ensure that all people affected by domestic abuse and violence…

Human Services
9
Family Planning Association of Maine Inc

To ensure that all maine people have access to high-quality, affordable reproductive health care, comprehensive sexual health education, and the right to control their reproductive lives.

Health
10
Maine Mobile Health Program Inc

To improve the health status of seasonal workers and their families by providing culturally appropriate care and services.

Health
11
Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc

Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.

Housing & Shelter
12
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midcoast Maine Community Action; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Penquis: $146,792 · Human ServicesPenquisMidCoast Maine Community Action: $124,014 · Human ServicesMidCoast Maine Community ActionYork County Community Action Corp: $111,890 · Human ServicesYork County Community Action CorpThe Opportunity Alliance: $109,200 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity AllianceWaldo Community Action Partners: $96,775 · Human ServicesWaldo Community Action PartnersKennebec Valley Community Action Program: $93,000 · Human ServicesKennebec Valley Community Action ProgramDowneast Community Partners: $54,181 · Human ServicesDowneast Community Partners+1 more: $20,037 · Human ServicesCONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $437,523 · HealthCONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONMAINE HEALTH ACCESS TO CARE: $153,975 · HealthMAINE HEALTH ACCESS TO CAREHealthy Community Coalition: $101,118 · HealthHealthy Community Coalition+1 more: $23,750 · HealthAroostook County Action Program: $137,961 · Crime & LegalAroostook…The Root Cellar: $18,000 · OtherNew Mainer's Thrive: $12,000 · OtherWashington-Hancock Community Agency: $10,000 · OtherMaine Inside Out: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGoodwill Industries of Northern New England: $10,000 · Employment
Human Services$755,889Health$716,366Crime & Legal$137,961Other$40,000Arts & Culture$10,000Employment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONSUMERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $437,523 over 6y, 17% of budgetMAINE HEALTH ACCESS TO CARE: $153,975 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPenquis: $146,792 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAroostook County Action Program: $137,961 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMidCoast Maine Community Action: $124,014 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetYork County Community Action Corp: $111,890 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $109,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHealthy Community Coalition: $101,118 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetWaldo Community Action Partners: $96,775 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKennebec Valley Community Action Program: $93,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget211 Maine: $23,750 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMAINE IMMAGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES: $20,037 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Root Cellar: $18,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWashington-Hancock Community Agency: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Inside Out: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Northern New England: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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…Maine Health Access F…John T Gorman Foundat…Maine Community Actio…United Way IncElmina B Sewall Found…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Td Charitable Foundat…The Hudson FoundationHeart of Maine United…Maine Cancer Foundati…Maine Children's Trust
Maine Community Foundation IncME34.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Western Maine Community Action Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Maine Community Action Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Western Maine Community Action Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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 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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