Maine International Trade Center
Portland, ME · EIN 01-0509118. Reported 83 grants totalling $1,067,281 to 59 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Maine International Trade Center, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q31) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,653 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,006 and the largest $103,453. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xodus Group Inc | Houston, TX | $123,872 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Deepwater Buoyancy | Biddeford, ME | $75,427 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kelson Marine | Portland, ME | $59,165 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Montalvo Corp | Gorham, ME | $45,894 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Orono Spectral Solutions | Hermon, ME | $37,361 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Mallard Enterprises | Bridgton, ME | $36,017 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lanco Intergrated | Westbrook, ME | $36,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Jynx Productions | Yarmouth, ME | $35,999 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Stone & Associates | Kennebunk, ME | $30,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Demers Food Group Inc | Auburn, ME | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Compotech Inc | Brewer, ME | $28,351 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vetro Inc | Portland, ME | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rapid Assault Tools | South Portland, ME | $22,426 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ocean Renewable Power Company | Portland, ME | $20,515 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ellevet Sciences LLC | South Portland, ME | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Highbyte Inc | Portland, ME | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Blue Barn LLC Dba Bluet | Scarborough, ME | $16,227 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Elizer LLC | Portland, ME | $16,088 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Comfort Waters LLC Dba Three of Strong Spirits | Portland, ME | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grimburg Less Lethal | Fryeburg, ME | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jasper Wyman & Son | Milbridge, ME | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ragged Coast Chocolates LLC | Westbrook, ME | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sterizign Precision Technologies LLC | Brunswick, ME | $14,516 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bristol Seafood LLC | Portland, ME | $13,939 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Maine Crisp Company Inc | Winslow, ME | $13,774 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Caron Engineering | Wells, ME | $13,673 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maine Grains Inc | Skowhegan, ME | $13,571 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salmonics LLC | Brunswick, ME | $13,254 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Douglas & Heather Donahue Dba Balfour Farm LLC | Pittsfield, ME | $12,820 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Short Creek Meats LLC | Kennebunk, ME | $10,966 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Genotyping Center of America | Ellsworth, ME | $10,850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bean Maine Lobster | Rockland, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fox Inc | Orland, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Volk Paxit Inc | Biddeford, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Prapela Inc | Biddeford, ME | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Defendify | Portland, ME | $9,461 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bijou Corp | Camden, ME | $9,322 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rubb Buildings | Sanford, ME | $8,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Diggibles Inc | Yarmouth, ME | $8,093 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| America Unagi Inc | Thomaston, ME | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maine Dayboat Scallops | Bath, ME | $7,667 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Owl's Head Solutions Inc | South Thomaston, ME | $7,653 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Virostat Inc | Westbrook, ME | $7,550 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Immucell Corporation | Portland, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maine Center for Enterprise Development | Portland, ME | $7,485 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Outlook Surgical Endoscopy Systems | Bloomington, IL | $7,458 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wayside Publishing | Freeport, ME | $7,222 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cape Seafood LLC | Saco, ME | $7,115 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greenhead Lobster LLC | Stonington, ME | $6,964 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Casco Bay Molding Ltd | Sanford, ME | $6,943 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Singing Prairie Farms LLC Dba Singing Pastures | Newcastle, ME | $6,330 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Navitour | South Portland, ME | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lighthouse Imaging | Windham, ME | $5,989 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Atlantic Laboratories | Waldoboro, ME | $5,969 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blushift Aerospace Inc | Brunswick, ME | $5,835 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington Federal Strategies | Kennebunkport, ME | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Windward Ventures LLC Dba Edward H Best Co | Thomaston, ME | $5,289 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Holy Donut | Arundel, ME | $5,275 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bixby & Co LLC | Rockport, ME | $5,006 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
16 of 59 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Compotech Inc
Trade show & International conferences - Deepwater Buoyancy
Trade Show & International Conferences; E-Commerce & Digital Marketing - Jynx Productions
International business development; Export marketing assitance; International lead market generation - Kelson Marine
Trade show & International conferences; e-commerce & digital marketing; market research & diversification - Ellevet Sciences LLC
E-commerce & digital marketing - Lanco Integrated
E-commerce & digital marketing; Website optimization
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | $78,424 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 12 | $169,519 | $13,522 |
| 2022 | 26 | $277,410 | $9,875 |
| 2023 | 38 | $541,928 | $11,733 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
88% of its giving went to organizations in Maine. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maine.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Maine International Trade Center's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 38 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2 Portland Fish Pier 204, Portland, ME, 04101.
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