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Maine · Private foundation

Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$167k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 37
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$52k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving29$167k28%
FY202426$183k12%
FY202323$136k9%
FY202221$115k33%
FY202126$186k54%
FY202037$118kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$207kHuman Services$172kYouth Development$117kPhilanthropy$111kEducation$83kHealth$70kCrime & Legal$57kHousing & Shelter$51kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
My Place Teen Center Inc$82,00162%
Trinity Jubilee Center Inc$55,00061%
Safe Voices$49,99951%
United Way of Androscoggin County Inc$34,13622%
Sweetser$30,00030%
Tedford Housing$30,00031%
Mainely Character$27,500515%
Tree Street Youth Inc$23,33331%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$23,00050%
St Mary's Health System$21,00030%
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All grantees of Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
My Place Teen Center Inc$82,00162%
Trinity Jubilee Center Inc$55,00061%
Safe Voices$49,99951%
United Way of Androscoggin County Inc$34,13622%
Sweetser$30,00030%
Tedford Housing$30,00031%
Mainely Character$27,500515%
Tree Street Youth Inc$23,33331%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$23,00050%
St Mary's Health System$21,00030%
Church Community Outreach Services Inc$20,50062%
University of Southern Maine Foundation$20,00040%
University of New England$20,00040%
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program$17,50060%
Saco Food Pantry$17,50062%
Biddeford Food Pantry$17,50061%
Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center$17,00041%
United Way of York County$16,69911%
Waterboro Community Pantry$15,5005n/a
Westbrook Food Pantry$15,50059%
Drop-In Center$15,000213%
Community Dental$14,00030%
The Opportunity Alliance$12,50020%
Avesta Housing Management Corporation$10,00020%
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust$10,00012%
Locker Project$10,00021%
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project$7,5001n/a
Pine Tree Society Inc$5,00010%
Androscoggin Home Health Services Inc$5,00010%
Prosperityme$5,00010%
Southern Maine Agency on Aging$5,00010%
Valo$5,0001n/a
Preble Street$5,00010%
United Way Inc$3,00010%
York County Community College Foundation$2,70012%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine$2,50010%
Standish Food Pantry$2,50010%
South Portland Food Cupboard$2,50010%
Falmouth Food Pantry Inc$2,50011%
Heart of Biddeford$2,50011%
Project Grace$2,00011%
High Street Congregational Church$2,0001n/a
Community Concepts Inc$2,00010%
Bon Apetit-Community Meal Program$2,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity York County Maine$2,00010%
United Way of Mid Coast Maine Inc$2,00020%
York County Community Action Corporation$2,00010%
Windham Neighbors Helping Neighbors$2,00013%
Central Maine Community College Foundation$2,00012%
Junior Achievement of Maine Inc$2,00010%
Friends of Waterboro Public Library$1,0001n/a
Salvation Army National Corp$1,0001n/a
Scarborough Economic Dev Corp$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $82,001 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSafe Voices: $49,999 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Androscoggin County Inc: $34,136 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSweetser: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTedford Housing: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMainely Character: $27,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetTree Street Youth Inc: $23,333 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Health System: $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChurch Community Outreach Services Inc: $20,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of New England: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSaco Food Pantry: $17,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetBiddeford Food Pantry: $17,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSeeds of Hope Neighborhood Center: $17,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetUnited Way of York County: $16,699 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWestbrook Food Pantry: $15,500 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetDrop-In Center: $15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCommunity Dental: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAvesta Housing Management Corporation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresumpscot Regional Land Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLocker Project: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPine Tree Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAndroscoggin Home Health Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProsperityme: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPreble Street: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYork County Community College Foundation: $2,700 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStandish Food Pantry: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouth Portland Food Cupboard: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFalmouth Food Pantry Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHeart of Biddeford: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetProject Grace: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Concepts Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity York County Maine: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Mid Coast Maine Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYork County Community Action Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWindham Neighbors Helping Neighbors: $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCentral Maine Community College Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of Maine Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetScarborough Economic Dev Corp: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 46.

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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.

Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationBangor Savings Bank F…Saco & Biddeford Savi…John T Gorman Foundat…Elmina B Sewall Found…Fisher Charitable Fou…Good Shepherd Food Ba…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Simmons Foundation - …United Way IncVirginia Hodgkins Som…
Maine Community Foundation IncME64.7× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · United Way Inc · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation

How much does Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation give?
Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $166,666 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (23%), Human Services (19%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: My Place Teen Center Inc ($82k), Trinity Jubilee Center Inc ($55k), Safe Voices ($50k).
Does Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Sam L Cohen Foundation, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation.
Where is Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation based?
Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation is based in ME.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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