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Hannaford Charitable Foundation

Portland, ME · EIN 01-0483892. Reported 56 grants totalling $3,903,233 to 46 organizations across tax years 2022-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$50,000median grant
$3,903,233granted, 2022-2024
46organizations funded
29%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,130,409assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Hannaford Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $50,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $25,000 and $99,234; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $350,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
9 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
14 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
17 grants
$100,000 and Up
13 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
United Way of Southern Maine (aka United Way of Greater Portland)Portland, ME$700,000222024
United Way of Southern MainePortland, ME$350,000112022
Scholarship America IncMinneapolis, MN$321,733332024
Bangor Region YMCABangor, ME$300,000332024
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern MainePortland, ME$250,000112024
Mainehealth (fbo Maine Medical Center)Portland, ME$240,000112022
Boys and Girls Club of Augusta Maine (fbo Augusta Teen Center)Augusta, ME$100,000222023
Capital District YMCAAlbany, NY$100,000112023
Dempsey Centers for Quality Cancer CareAuburn, ME$100,000112024
Footprints Inc (aka Footprints Food Pantry)Kittery, ME$100,000222024
Preble StreetPortland, ME$100,000112022
Regional Food Bank of Ne Ny (aka Food Bank of the Hudson Valley)Latham, NY$100,000222023
The Ecology SchoolSaco, ME$100,000112023
Vermont FoodbankBarre, VT$100,000112024
Wentworth Douglass HospitalSomerville, MA$60,000112023
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central New HampshireConcord, NH$50,000112022
Food ConnectsBrattleboro, VT$50,000222023
Glens Falls Hospital FoundationGlens Falls, NY$50,000112024
In Our Own VoicesAlbany, NY$50,000112023
Saint Anne InstituteAlbany, NY$50,000112022
Tamworth Community Nurse AssociationTamworth, NH$50,000112023
Tedford HousingBrunswick, ME$50,000112024
York HospitalYork, ME$50,000112024
Albany Med Health SystemSaratoga Springs, NY$45,000112022
Trinity Jubilee CenterLewiston, ME$30,000112024
Camp Kita IncNorth Berwick, ME$25,000112022
Friends of the Conway Public LibraryConway, NH$25,000112024
Hundred NightsKeene, NH$25,000112022
MainegeneralAugusta, ME$25,000112023
Merrimack Valley Food Bank IncLowell, MA$25,000112024
My Place Teen CenterWestbrook, ME$25,000112022
The Sylvia CenterBronx, NY$25,000112023
YMCA Community Center of Rome New YorkRome, NY$25,000112023
YMCA Community Center of Rome New York (aka YMCA Tri-Valley)Rome, NY$25,000112024
YWCA Northeastern New YorkSchenectady, NY$25,000112023
South End Children's CafeAlbany, NY$24,000112024
Aio Food and Energy AssistanceRockland, ME$20,000112023
Boys & Girls Club of MetrowestMarlborough, MA$20,000112024
Central Vermont Medical CenterBarre, VT$20,000112024
Poughkeepsie Farm ProjectPoughkeepsie, NY$20,000112024
Betty C Ketchum Foundation (aka Mwv Adult Day Center)Center Conway, NH$10,000112023
Oxford Hills Community GardensNorway, ME$10,000112022
Regenerative Roots AssociationNashua, NH$10,000112023
The Heart of Maine Resource CenterDexter, ME$10,000112024
The Center for Grieving ChildrenPortland, ME$7,500222023
People First Food PantryUxbridge, MA$5,000112024

8 of 46 (17%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 29%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 8 grants to individuals totalling $1,328,600 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
9 grants
Food & Nutrition
8 grants
Health Care
6 grants
Youth Development
6 grants
Education
4 grants
Environment
2 grants
Civil Rights
1 grant
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202216$1,207,567$50,000
202320$1,342,432$50,000
202420$1,353,234$40,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Hannaford Charitable Foundation has 3 of them, worth $450,000. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.

OrganizationLocationApproved
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern MainePortland, ME$250,000
Dempsey Centers for Quality Cancer CareAuburn, ME$100,000
Vermont FoodbankBarre, VT$100,000

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 66% of this one's giving went to organizations in Maine. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Maine
$2.6M
New York
$539K
Minnesota
$322K
New Hampshire
$170K
Vermont
$170K
Massachusetts
$110K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund28 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc19 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc18 shared recipientsMaine Community Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsBangor Savings Bank Foundation11 shared recipientsJohn T Gorman Foundation11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $50,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Maine.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hannaford Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1000, Portland, ME, 04104. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 01-0483892 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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