Maine · Nonprofit
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine (Maine) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,145,102 to it, the largest being HIAS Inc ($1,854,092). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine has grown faster than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fundlocalportfolio match
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Jewish Community Centers Association of North Americaportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 12% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $305k → $1.3M.
13 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $14k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine). These are real filings, and they are not money Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine raised.
From the IRS filings of Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
71% 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 Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 33% · 2019 34% · 2020 27% · 2021 22% · 2022 46% · 2023 37% — 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
60% of Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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. Your 56 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fundlocalportfolio matchME · funds 29 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared funderslocalME · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you
- Jewish Community Centers Association of North Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Jewish Camp Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Board of Jewish Education Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Enterprises Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Full Plates Full Potentialportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Jewish Federation Stamford New Canaan Darien Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Isador Simon Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Initiativesincshared funderslocalME · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you
- Maine Health Access Foundation Incshared fundersME · backs 85 organizations that share your funders
- Libra Foundationshared fundersME · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
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 Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: 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 Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine?
- Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine (Maine) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,145,102 to it, the largest being HIAS Inc ($1,854,092). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $7,145,102 in grants to Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine?
- HIAS Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,854,092 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 56funders 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