Maine · Nonprofit
Dignity First
Dignity First (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,113 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Dignity First runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Heart of Maine United Wayshared funderslocalportfolio match
- John T Gorman Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Maine Health Access Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $16 → $20k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Dignity First’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Dignity First leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Dignity First.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
70% of Dignity First's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $21k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Heart of Maine United Wayshared funderslocalportfolio matchME · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 25 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- John T Gorman Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 77 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Health Access Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundationlocalportfolio matchME · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Atlantic Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Narragansett Number One Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Shepherd Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Androscoggin Bank's Mainstreet Fdn Portland Trust Company LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Service Credit Union Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Diakoneint Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Dignity First
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dignity First: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Dignity First?
- Dignity First (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,113 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Dignity First have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $71,113 in grants to Dignity First, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dignity First?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dignity First find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing