Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in Maine

These 39 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in Maine that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

39grantmaking charities

$449.6Mgranted between them

5,650funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded. A grantmaker supporting sixty groups is a more realistic prospect than one writing two very large cheques, which is why this is not ranked by dollars.

Organization	Based in	Median grant	Organizations	Total granted
Maine Community Foundation Inc	Ellsworth	$16,500	1,930	$197.1M
Simple Generosity Foundation	Cape Elizabeth	$6,383	610	$13.3M
Maine Technology Institute	Portland	$29,400	573	$65.9M
Davis Family Foundation	Yarmouth	$20,000	310	$10.5M
Davis Conservation Foundation	Yarmouth	$15,000	188	$4.3M
Good Shepherd Food Bank	Auburn	$20,000	175	$8.7M
Coastal Enterprises Inc	Brunswick	$35,550	135	$7.7M
United Way Inc	Portland	$27,002	128	$25.9M
A Caring Community Inc	Kittery	$9,880	120	$1.3M
Full Plates Full Potential	Brunswick	$10,000	105	$2.5M
Maine Initiativesinc	Portland	$15,000	104	$5.6M
Maine Humanities Council	Portland	$7,500	100	$877K
Maine Cancer Foundation	Falmouth	$50,000	77	$7.6M
Ahimsa Foundation	South Windham	$10,000	77	$3.6M
Reverb Inc	Portland	$12,248	73	$3.6M
Eastern Maine Development Corporation	Bangor	$25,000	70	$3.0M
The Masonic Charitable Foundation of the	Holden	$7,027	70	$1.1M
Davis Educational Foundation	Yarmouth	$140,852	66	$13.7M
Maine International Trade Center	Portland	$10,000	59	$1.1M
Heart of Maine United Way	Bangor	$17,934	58	$3.6M
United Way of Kennebec Valley	Augusta	$23,500	47	$3.7M
Martin's Point Health Care Inc	Portland	$10,000	45	$1.5M
Mainehealth	Portland	$30,334	44	$12.8M
Southern Maine Agency on Aging	Biddeford	$13,352	42	$683K
Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting	Ellsworth	$10,000	41	$1.3M
Woodard & Curran Foundation	Portland	$10,000	41	$933K
Island Institute	Rockland	$10,000	39	$2.8M
Maine Coast Heritage Trust	Topsham	$73,593	38	$16.3M
United Way of Androscoggin County Inc	Lewiston	$22,000	33	$2.8M
Momentum Conservation	Portland	$15,000	33	$940K
Central Maine Growth Council	Waterville	$15,596	30	$642K
Maine Development Foundation	Augusta	$40,427	27	$2.5M
Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fund	Ellsworth	$7,500	27	$314K
Maine People's Resource Center	Portland	$20,500	26	$2.6M
Partnership for Environmental	South Portland	$39,000	23	$6.3M
Catholic Charities Maine	Portland	$36,876	22	$3.7M
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners	Unity	$9,548	22	$1.1M
The Jackson Laboratory	Bar Harbor	$12,000	21	$974K
Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy	Augusta	$111,924	21	$6.8M

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.

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