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Maine Timberlands Charitable Trust Co Linda S Dalby Et Al Trustees

Woburn, MA · EIN 27-2377992. Reported 52 grants totalling $1,991,800 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$30,000median grant
$1,991,800granted, 2021-2024
36organizations funded
26%of grantees funded again the next year
$14.4Massets, 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. Maine Timberlands Charitable Trust Co Linda S Dalby Et Al Trustees 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 $30,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $15,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $175,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
19 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
15 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
12 grants
$100,000 and Up
3 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
Umaine School of Forest ResourcesOrono, ME$224,000212022
Umaine School of ForestryOrono, ME$205,000212023
Umo W Geo LabOrono, ME$175,000112022
New England Forestry FoundationLittleton, MA$120,000222024
Maine TreeAugusta, ME$110,000222023
Maine Summer CampsPortland, ME$82,000322023
Downeast Lake Land TrustGrand Lake Stream, ME$75,000112021
High Peaks AllianceFarmington, ME$75,000332023
Northern ForestConcord, NH$75,000212022
Appalachian Mountain ClubBoston, MA$70,000332023
New England Forest FoundationLittleton, MA$70,000112021
Spatial Informatics Group Natural AssetsPleasanton, CA$70,000112022
Swoam Maine Woodland OwnersAugusta, ME$65,000212022
Maine Tree FoundationAugusta, ME$60,000112022
Maine Woodland OwnersAugusta, ME$50,000112023
Forest Society of MaineBangor, ME$40,000442024
New England ForestLittleton, MA$40,000112023
Northern Forest CenterConcord, NH$40,000112023
Our Climate CommonGeorgetown, ME$40,000112022
Maine AudobonFalmouth, ME$35,000112022
Maine Huts and TrailsKingfield, ME$35,000112023
Nature ConservancyWells, ME$35,000112022
Viles ArboretumAugusta, ME$30,000222023
Center for Wildlife StudiesNorth Yarmouth, ME$20,000112024
Land Conservation Assistance NetworkYarmouth, ME$20,000112022
Our ClimateGeorgetown, ME$20,000112023
The Maine Organic Farm and GardenUnity, ME$20,000112022
Merryspring Nature CenterCamden, ME$15,000112022
Rangely Lake Heritage TrustRangley, ME$12,800112024
Northern WoodlandsLyme, NH$12,500112022
Maine Appalachian Trail ClubPortland, ME$10,000112023
MerryspringsCamden, ME$10,000112023
Rangeley Lakes HeritageRangeley, ME$10,000112021
Midcoast ConservatoryEdgecomb, ME$8,000112023
Forest Steward GuildSante Fe, NM$7,500112023
Blue Hill Heritage TrustBlue Hills, ME$5,000112021

7 of 36 (19%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 26%, across 3 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Environment
16 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Education
2 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$275,000$22,500
202223$1,051,500$30,000
202317$572,500$30,000
20244$92,800$16,400

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.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 75% 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
$1.5M
Massachusetts
$300K
New Hampshire
$128K
California
$70K
New Mexico
$8K

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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.

Maine Community Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsOnion Foundation10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsDavis Conservation Foundation9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $30,000. 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 Maine Timberlands Charitable Trust Co Linda S Dalby Et Al Trustees'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: Co Aspen Tax 444 Washington St Unit, Woburn, MA, 01801. 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 27-2377992 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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