Funders

Foundations in Maine That Accept Grant Applications

Every one of these 74 foundations is based in Maine, gave to at least ten organizations we could identify, filed a return covering 2023 or later, and did not tell the IRS it funds only organizations it picks itself. Roughly three in four private foundations do tell the IRS exactly that; those are not listed here.

74foundations accepting requests
$836.9Mgranted between them
6,869funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific foundation is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

FoundationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
Td Charitable FoundationPortland$10,0001,952$113.9M
Bangor Savings Bank FoundationBangor$5,000443$6.3M
Elmina B Sewall FoundationFreeport$30,000389$50.8M
Onion FoundationAuburn$12,500324$14.0M
John T Gorman FoundationPortland$20,000265$32.0M
Saco & Biddeford SavingsSaco$1,000235$2.1M
Sam L Cohen FoundationPortland$15,000213$15.2M
Franklin Savings Bank CommunityFarmington$2,000195$2.0M
Maine Health Access Foundation IncAugusta$29,891179$20.8M
Lunder FoundationPortland$1,000175$113.2M
Fisher Charitable FoundationPortland$5,000168$2.5M
Simmons Foundation - PerkinsthompsonPortland$2,500111$676K
Quimby Family FoundationPortland$12,500109$4.0M
Atlantic Federal Credit Union FoundationSouth Portland$500108$785K
Morton-Kelly Charitable TrustPortland$10,00099$1.3M
Libra FoundationPortland$5,00088$28.2M
Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation IncKennebunkport$10,00087$4.1M
Max Kagan Family FoundationAuburn$2,00087$1.0M
Narragansett Number One FoundationBar Mills$7,50084$1.5M
Machias Savings Bank CommunityMachias$5,00068$943K
Harold Alfond FoundationPortland$162,50062$326.4M
Bill and Joan AlfondPortland$18,66261$11.6M
Francis T & Louis T NicholsBangor$16,00057$2.6M
The Hudson FoundationPortland$7,50051$814K
Elsie & William Viles FoundationAugusta$6,00049$3.2M
Kennebunk Savings Bank FoundationKennebunk$10,00048$1.7M
Biddeford and Mechanics SavingsWestbrook$4,00048$909K
The Alfred M Senter Fund TrustBath$3,00048$703K
John Sage FoundationPortland$5,00046$453K
The Mimi FoundationScarborough$5,00045$7.4M
Androscoggin Bank's Mainstreet FdnPortland$2,50045$432K
Marr-Anderson Family FoundationFalmouth$6,03645$2.3M
The Robert and Dorothy GoldbergPortland$5,00044$1.3M
Hannaford Charitable FoundationPortland$50,00041$5.3M
James & Betty Jacobs FamilyWest Bath$2,50041$1.4M
Pond Family FoundationScarborough$5,00038$468K
Ricker College ScholarshipHoulton$2,00036$878K
The Bob Crewe FoundationFalmouth$10,00035$6.5M
Rosamond Thaxter FoundationPortland$2,50033$435K
Vera Grace Greenlaw TrustPortland$2,00027$155K
Arthur Ashley Williams FoundationPenobscot$3,50026$649K
The Violet Jabara Charitable TrustFalmouth$25,00026$1.7M
The Bank of Maine Charitable FoundationCamden$5,00025$165K
Albert H YoungBangor$1,88025$211K
Bonbright Family FoundationSedgwick$2,50024$215K
Cianbro Charitable FoundationPittsfield$10,00023$8.1M
The Gb Knecht FoundationBlue Hill$3,00023$586K
Firebird Foundation forPhillips$50,00022$23.0M
The Bopp Family Charitable TrustFalmouth$25022$43K
William Searls Scholarship FundDamariscotta$1,20021$91K
Edward Little High School Alumni AsPortland$1,00021$61K
Daisy Friedlander Charitable FndtnPortland$50020$40K
The Bracy Memorial Trust FundAugusta$1,50020$225K
Munsell Family FoundationEllsworth$25018$156K
Barbara and J Harrison HolmanOtisfield$15,89318$726K
Clarence E Mulford TrustFryeburg$6,08217$3.8M
Helen R Coe TrustFryeburg$8,00017$556K
Margaret & Donald Matheson SchoolPortland$2,05817$167K
Cape Elizabeth HomeSouth Portland$10,00016$349K
The Esta Kramer FoundationDamariscotta$5,00016$603K
The Sherman Family FoundationScarborough$2,75014$414K
The Aaron a and Maria H PutnamHoulton$7,50014$860K
Waterville Area Women's ClubWaterville$1,00013$91K
Fred Forsyth Educational FdPortland$3,15413$226K
Lillian M Baker TrustPortland$4,00013$208K
Downeast Conservation Foundation IncEdgecomb$5,00013$208K
The Eunice Frye Home FoundationPortland$6,00012$334K
Barbara Thorndike Wiggin FundPortland$4,57112$163K
Margaret J S Kennedy TrustPortland$2,14312$77K
Tramutoporter FoundationOgunquit$7,50012$695K
Phillips Family Foundation TrustPenobscot$14,20012$541K
Mclanathan-Phippsburg Fire and RescuePhippsburg$3,00012$401K
Helen W Fuller Testamentary TrustAugusta$1,00011$67K
Skowhegan Savings Charitable FoundationSkowhegan$25,00010$777K

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Under $5,000Maine foundations$5,000 - $25,000Maine foundations

Maine foundations that fund only organizations they pick

Each of these told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests, so none is in the list above. Each has a page because a real share of its giving went to community foundations and other organizations that make grants themselves, and the page names them. Ordered by number of organizations funded.

FoundationBased inOrganizations fundedGrantmakers among them
Albert B Glickman Family FoundationPortland, ME1226

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