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Maine · Nonprofit
Portland ESL Scholarship Fund (Maine) is funded by 6 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $35,116 in grants to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($21,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Portland ESL Scholarship Fund is better cushioned than half of the 2,831 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,831 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2017
The base broadened — 1 funders to 2 as grant income moved $1k → $15k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Portland ESL Scholarship Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Portland ESL Scholarship Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 64% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 56% · 2024 90% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Portland ESL Scholarship Fund is locally rooted: 87% of its grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 210 organizations that share them.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 6funders 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. view filing