Maine · Nonprofit
HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY
HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY (Maine) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,997,842 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($395,715). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Heart of Maine United Way does
Mission
Since 1937, Heart of Maine United Way (homeuw) has been mobilizing the caring power of people and communities throughout hancock, penobscot, piscataquis, somerset, waldo, and washington counties to provide essential services and identify solutions aimed at creating lasting changes to the root causes of the community's most pressing needs. Homeuw is focused on improving basic needs, substance use disorder and early childhood development. We accomplish our results by bringing together subject experts, business leaders, donors, neighborhoods, and members of local nonprofit agencies. These community members help identify our community's most critical social issues. In forming these partnerships, we are better able to address the underlying causes of problems in our community and prevent them from happening. Homeuw raises funds from the community to address the underlying root cause of the community's most pressing issues. In the past year more than 134,000 individuals were supported throug
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
"opportunity 2028 - through the community granting process, 40 community- based programs impact the lives of 32,000+ residents across our six-county region. As the largest private funder in the area, homeuw manages 717,500 in grants for 40 programs to meet basic needs and promote self-sufficiency; prevent, treat and support recovery from substance use disorder; and ensure that all children have quality early learning experiences. Additionally, 102,000+ residents of our six-county region are served through one of our many homeuw initatives. In all, homeuw helps support 1-in-3 of our neighbors each year. The community mapping process allows homeuw to identify the areas in which it has a unique position to leverage relationships and community resources to create solutions through collective impact. These ongoing community conversations led homeuw to evolve their community impact work through a collective impact plan known as opportunity 2028. These are issues that have multiple causes and can't be solved with a quick-fix solution. Homeuw works to address the issue at its core. With donors, volunteers, and like-minded organizations, united way coordinates efforts around clear goals to…
$1,020,181 spentof which $1,020,181 as grants57% of program spending"volunteerism - through an online database (volunteerme.homeunitedway.org) volunteers are matched to meaningful opportunities throughout the region. Additionally, volunteerme offers capacity building and technical support for agencies that utilize volunteers by providing regular training opportunities, volunteer management resources and peer to peer networking. Homeuw is also responsible for coordinating an annual week of action to assist nonprofits in the region with one-day service projects that they otherwise may not have the capacity to complete.
$10,788 spent1% of program spending211 - homeuw supports 211 maine for the 5-county area it serves. 211 is a comprehensive statewide directory of over 10,000 health and human services available in maine. The toll free 211 hotline is confidential and anonymous and connects callers to trained call specialists who can help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Finding the answers to health and human services questions and locating resources is as quick and easy as dialing 211, texting your zip code to 898-211, or by visiting 211maine.org. 211 provides homeuw with up-to-date data around community needs and unmet needs on a monthly basis. While call volume and type vary from month to month the top call categories for the past several years have included heating assistance, utilities assistance, housing, basic needs-food, mental health services, health care/health insurance, and substance abuse services. Call volume spikes for heating assistance september through march with heating assistance calls often making up 60 - 70% of the calls. Additionally, 211 receives calls for seasonal service needs (thanksgiving and christmas), tax services (january-march), and weather-related disasters (I.e. Ice storms).
$50,059 spent3% of program spendingOthers - neighbors united - this initiative leverages homeuw's connections in the business and nonprofit sectors to help provide needed supplies to residents across our six-counties. Homeuw works with nonprofits and businesses to connect those in need of supplies with those willing to donate the needed items through our neighbors united drives. In the last year, homeuw helped our neighbors in need obtain over 152,000 worth of goods (diapers, socks, toothbrushes, school supplies etc.) via donations and neighbors united drives. Fuel assistance fund -this initiative provides small grants that help families stay safe through the winter by providing funds for emergency heating assistance, energy audits, winterization, weatherization, and hands-on training in energy savings methods. In the past year, this program provided 17,452 in grants to non-profits in homeuw's service area to help local families and individuals in need of emergency assistance. Food security - homeuw has had a long-standing focus on food security through programs like the fema emergency food & shelter program (efsp), the national association of letter carriers (nalc) food drive, and homeuw's food drives. Homeuw is…
$719,863 spentof which $196,031 as grants40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,800,891.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $5.5M to $7.4M (+34%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jessamine Pottle
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $116k → $295k.
8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $333k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY raised.
From the IRS filings of HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
47% 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 HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 51% · 2019 60% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $930k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is 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.
Against its field
HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $370k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$370k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY?
- HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY (Maine) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,997,842 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($395,715). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,997,842 in grants to HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $395,715 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing