Maine · Private foundation
Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $13,625
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $600,173
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 61
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $2.8M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $1.6M | 37% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $1.4M | 52% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $4.2M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $3.7M | 37% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $1.8M | 16% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $4.3M | 36% |
| FY2017 | 61 | $2.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The President and Trustees of Colby College | $8,461,210 | 7 | 1% |
| Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy | $3,237,719 | 8 | 3% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $1,314,978 | 3 | 0% |
| Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | $800,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Thomas College | $678,810 | 7 | 0% |
| United States Biathlon Association | $531,500 | 5 | 19% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $320,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Prosperityme | $257,499 | 5 | 15% |
| Coastal Enterprises Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc | $203,800 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 112 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 93 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · Libra Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation
- How much does Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation give?
- Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $3,440,607 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Health (17%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The President and Trustees of Colby College ($8.5M), Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy ($3.2M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($1.3M).
- Does Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation, Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation.
- Where is Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation based?
- Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation is based in ME.
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