Maine · Nonprofit
PENQUIS CAP INC
PENQUIS CAP INC (Maine) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,330,068 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST INCORPORATED ($11,004,075). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PENQUIS CAP INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,286 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Tr Ua the Camden Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Sam L Cohen Foundationshared funders
- Southcoast Hospitals Group Incportfolio 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: 2017 44% · 2018 45% · 2019 37% · 2020 38% · 2021 49% · 2022 60% · 2023 45% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of PENQUIS CAP INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $2.2M.
4 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 PENQUIS CAP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
PENQUIS CAP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 PENQUIS CAP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 69% · 2019 64% · 2020 61% · 2021 59% · 2022 50% · 2023 56% — 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 PENQUIS CAP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
77% of PENQUIS CAP INC's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $348k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 36 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Tr Ua the Camden Foundationlocalportfolio matchOH · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sam L Cohen Foundationshared fundersME · backs 129 organizations that share your funders
- Southcoast Hospitals Group Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Carole Bartholdson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Mid-Maineshared fundersME · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- United Way of Androscoggin County Incshared fundersME · backs 19 organizations that share your funders
- Anne R Henry Charitable Foundationshared fundersME · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- Elmina B Sewall Foundationshared fundersME · backs 153 organizations that share your funders
- Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organizationshared fundersME · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared fundersME · backs 53 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.
Government funding PENQUIS CAP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $74.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$62.5M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$4.0M
- Department of Justice$3.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.5M
- Department of Agriculture$362k
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 PENQUIS CAP INC
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- Broadway Housing Inc · exempt
- Rape Response Services Inc · exempt
- Penquis Development Inc · exempt
- Mainestream Finance · exempt
- Charlotte White Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENQUIS CAP INC: 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 PENQUIS CAP INC?
- PENQUIS CAP INC (Maine) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,330,068 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST INCORPORATED ($11,004,075). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENQUIS CAP INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $17,330,068 in grants to PENQUIS CAP INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENQUIS CAP INC?
- MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $11,004,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENQUIS CAP INC 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 36funders 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