Maine · Public charity
Central Maine Growth Council
The Growth Council was established to foster a robust regional economy in a collaborative manner in a mult-town community.
- $104k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Central Maine Growth Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $478k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $104k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $478k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $109k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $16k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $40k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $10k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine Plywood USA | $49,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Laboratories | $49,000 | 1 | n/a |
| R&S Marine Repair Inc | $49,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Land & Furrow LLC | $45,000 | 1 | 15% |
| State Lunch | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Good Crust LLC | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ac Rva LLC | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunrise Bagel LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Main Street Provisions | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nicholas Pelotte - Swish | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine Plywood USA | $49,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Laboratories | $49,000 | 1 | n/a |
| R&S Marine Repair Inc | $49,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Land & Furrow LLC | $45,000 | 1 | 15% |
| State Lunch | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Good Crust LLC | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ac Rva LLC | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunrise Bagel LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Main Street Provisions | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nicholas Pelotte - Swish | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jenny Allen - Coffeehouse | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oliver & Friends Bookshop and Reading Room LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| China Lake Provisions LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Absolem Cider Company | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Morgan Camp Care | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| SledTRX | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jonathan Flynn - Flynn's Tree Services | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Veilleux & Cote LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chestnut Hill Farm | $13,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Travel Maine | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 129 Gudis LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Day's Jewelers | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Perennial Renewables | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New England Karting Challenge | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mgh Realty Company LLC | $9,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Focus LLC | $9,167 | 1 | n/a |
| The Two Cent LLC | $9,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Relax LLC | $7,200 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Central Maine Growth Council
- How much does Central Maine Growth Council give?
- Central Maine Growth Council reported 4 grants totaling $104,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Central Maine Growth Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (71%), Housing & Shelter (8%), Health (6%).
- Who are Central Maine Growth Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Maine Plywood USA ($49k), Maine Laboratories ($49k), R&S Marine Repair Inc ($49k).
- Does Central Maine Growth Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Central Maine Growth Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Technology Institute.
- Where is Central Maine Growth Council based?
- Central Maine Growth Council is based in ME.
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