Maine · Nonprofit
Vinalhaven Housing Initiative
Vinalhaven Housing Initiative (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($62,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Vinalhaven Housing Initiative holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Trowbridge Foundationlocal
- Bowdoin Apartments Corporationportfolio match
- Habitat for Humanity International Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Vinalhaven Housing Initiative’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
Vinalhaven Housing Initiative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 Vinalhaven Housing Initiative.
“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
86% of Vinalhaven Housing Initiative's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 326 organizations that share them.
- Trowbridge FoundationlocalMA · funds 13 organizations near you
- Bowdoin Apartments Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Habitat for Humanity International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Habitat for Humanity South Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Habitat for Humanity of Oregon Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Service Credit Union Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Habitat For Humanity Virginiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Habitat for Humanity of NC Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Habitat for Humanity of Indiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oregon Association of Realtors Home Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cathedral Square Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Vinalhaven Housing Initiative
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Vinalhaven Housing Initiative: 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 Vinalhaven Housing Initiative?
- Vinalhaven Housing Initiative (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($62,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Vinalhaven Housing Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $104,200 in grants to Vinalhaven Housing Initiative, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Vinalhaven Housing Initiative?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $62,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Vinalhaven Housing Initiative 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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