How much does Carl E Danforth give?

Carl E Danforth reported 12 grants totaling $70,505 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Carl E Danforth fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Philanthropy (15%), Membership Benefit (10%).

Who are Carl E Danforth's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen ($114k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($92k), Mount Hope Cemetery Corp ($46k).

Does Carl E Danforth fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Carl E Danforth 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 Carl E Danforth?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bangor Savings Bank Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is Carl E Danforth based?

Carl E Danforth is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Carl E Danforth

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.

$71k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 12
Grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $3,525
Largest grant, FY2025: $17,627
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 12; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $1.7M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Carl E Danforth funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	12	$71k	0%
FY2024	12	$58k	0%
FY2023	12	$111k	0%
FY2022	12	$73k	0%
FY2021	12	$75k	0%
FY2020	12	$69k	n/a

92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$194kPhilanthropy$58kMembership Benefit$39kHuman Services$35kReligion$23kEnvironment$20kAnimals$11kOther$0

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
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen	$114,444	6	0%
Shriners Hospitals for Children	$91,554	6	0%
Mount Hope Cemetery Corp	$45,786	6	1%
Heart of Maine United Way	$45,786	6	0%
Bangor Theological Seminary	$27,475	6	6%
Bangor Fuel Society	$23,825	6	18%
Good Samaritan Agency	$22,902	6	1%
Sunshine Club for Children	$22,902	6	21%
The Salvation Army	$18,322	6	n/a
Bangor Humane Society	$12,819	6	0%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carl E Danforth supplied at peak.

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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 9.

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.

Bangor Savings Bank FoundationME13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Carl E Danforth

How much does Carl E Danforth give?: Carl E Danforth reported 12 grants totaling $70,505 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Carl E Danforth fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Philanthropy (15%), Membership Benefit (10%).
Who are Carl E Danforth's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen ($114k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($92k), Mount Hope Cemetery Corp ($46k).
Does Carl E Danforth fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carl E Danforth 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 Carl E Danforth?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bangor Savings Bank Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Carl E Danforth based?: Carl E Danforth is based in TX.