Maine · Private foundation
Abbagadassett Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $80,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Abbagadassett Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $1.2M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $745k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $608k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $381k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $272k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $261k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $676,332 | 5 | 0% |
| Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc | $343,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Spurwink Services Inc | $299,991 | 3 | 0% |
| Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation | $289,578 | 3 | 0% |
| Blind Industries & Services of Maryland | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | $124,298 | 3 | 3% |
| Maine Historical Society | $117,145 | 2 | 3% |
| Maine Maritime Museum | $90,820 | 1 | n/a |
| Environmental and Energy Study Institute | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Women's Lobby Education Fund | $65,000 | 4 | 12% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $676,332 | 5 | 0% |
| Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc | $343,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Spurwink Services Inc | $299,991 | 3 | 0% |
| Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation | $289,578 | 3 | 0% |
| Blind Industries & Services of Maryland | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | $124,298 | 3 | 3% |
| Maine Historical Society | $117,145 | 2 | 3% |
| Maine Maritime Museum | $90,820 | 1 | n/a |
| Environmental and Energy Study Institute | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Women's Lobby Education Fund | $65,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Laudholm Trust | $54,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Pejepscot Historical Society | $36,553 | 1 | n/a |
| MaineHealth | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Momentum Conservation | $24,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $23,353 | 1 | 0% |
| Bowdoinham Food Pantry | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Abbagadassett Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
About Abbagadassett Foundation Inc
- How much does Abbagadassett Foundation Inc give?
- Abbagadassett Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $1,151,494 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Abbagadassett Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Arts & Culture (19%), Civil Rights (18%).
- Who are Abbagadassett Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($676k), Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ($343k), Spurwink Services Inc ($300k).
- Does Abbagadassett Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Abbagadassett Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Abbagadassett Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation.
- Where is Abbagadassett Foundation Inc based?
- Abbagadassett Foundation Inc is based in ME.
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