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Maine Grantmaking Charities Making Grants of $5,000 - $25,000

These 32 organizations are based in Maine and reported a median grant between $5,000 and $25,000 on their most recent Form 990 Schedule I filing. A typical grant is not a promise about any single gift -- some of an organization's grants are smaller than its median, some are larger -- but it is a reasonable signal for whether an application here fits the size of your ask.

32organizations in this range
$293.4Mgranted between them
4,558funding relationships mapped

A median grant in this range covers a meaningful program cost without asking for the multi-year commitment a capital campaign needs. A lot of general-operating and single-program requests land in this range.

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars -- the same convention as every list on this site. 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 organization is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
Maine Community Foundation IncEllsworth$16,5001,816$197.1M
Simple Generosity FoundationCape Elizabeth$6,383607$13.3M
Davis Family FoundationYarmouth$20,000310$10.5M
Davis Conservation FoundationYarmouth$15,000188$4.3M
Good Shepherd Food BankAuburn$16,224166$12.8M
A Caring Community IncKittery$9,562132$1.7M
Maine InitiativesincPortland$18,633115$7.4M
Full Plates Full PotentialBrunswick$10,000112$2.9M
Maine Humanities CouncilPortland$7,50098$877K
Maine International Trade CenterPortland$10,00087$1.6M
The Masonic Charitable Foundation of theHolden$7,62886$1.6M
Ahimsa FoundationSouth Windham$10,00077$3.6M
Reverb IncPortland$12,24873$3.6M
Maine Council on AgingBrunswick$9,00070$637K
Heart of Maine United WayBangor$17,06558$4.4M
Momentum ConservationPortland$10,00052$1.4M
Southern Maine Agency on AgingBiddeford$16,61547$1.1M
United Way of Kennebec ValleyAugusta$23,50047$3.7M
Martin's Point Health Care IncPortland$10,00045$1.5M
Island InstituteRockland$10,00044$3.3M
Woodard & Curran FoundationPortland$10,00044$1.1M
Vincent B and Barbara G Welch SupportingEllsworth$10,00041$1.3M
United Spay AllianceBrunswick$8,00029$206K
United Way of Androscoggin County IncLewiston$22,00028$2.8M
Edward H Daveis Benevolent FundEllsworth$7,50027$314K
Central Maine Growth CouncilWaterville$20,00027$746K
Road Runners Club of AmericaPortland$15,30026$589K
Maine People's Resource CenterPortland$20,50023$2.6M
Maine Organic Farmers and GardenersUnity$9,54822$1.1M
The Jackson LaboratoryBar Harbor$12,00021$974K
Maine Space Grant ConsortiumAugusta$23,37720$4.2M
SeedmoneyScarborough$7,12020$169K
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Every median grant on this page describes the grants reported, not all of them, so the real typical grant is likely lower than shown. This is also why these figures cannot be compared to the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site.

Foundations report their grants differently, so their median grants are not directly comparable to the ones on this page -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so a private foundation's median reflects every grant it made, while the Schedule I figures on this page do not. See foundations in the same range anyway.

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