Maine · Nonprofit
THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION
THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,697 to it, the largest being Maine Cancer Foundation ($322,397). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- United Way of Aroostooklocal
- Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundationportfolio match
- Fisher Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $260k → $300.
From the IRS filings of THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION’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
THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 291 organizations that share them.
- United Way of AroostooklocalME · funds 14 organizations near you
- Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fisher Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Narragansett Number One Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sukeforth Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elsie & William Viles Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rehabvisions & Cariant Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Doris L Benz Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Incshared fundersME · backs 55 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 THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION
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
76%
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 THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION: 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 THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION?
- THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,697 to it, the largest being Maine Cancer Foundation ($322,397). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $322,697 in grants to THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION?
- Maine Cancer Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $322,397 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JEFFERSON CARY FOUNDATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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