Maine · Private foundation
Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation
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.
- $208k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 9 | $208k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $123k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $133k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $101k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $95k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $108k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $95k | 55% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute | $170,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities Maine | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | $45,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friendship House | $31,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Travis Mills Foundation | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Tree Street Youth Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Aid for Kids | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Royal River Conservation Trust | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Maine Behavioral Healthcare | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine College Circle | $5,000 | 1 | 7% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute | $170,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities Maine | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | $45,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friendship House | $31,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Travis Mills Foundation | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Tree Street Youth Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Aid for Kids | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Royal River Conservation Trust | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Maine Behavioral Healthcare | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine College Circle | $5,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Wayfinder Schools | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($553k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation 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
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About Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation
- How much does Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation give?
- Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $208,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (22%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ($170k), Catholic Charities Maine ($85k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ($45k).
- Does Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation 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 Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Fisher Charitable Foundation, Sam L Cohen Foundation.
- Where is Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation based?
- Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation is based in ME.
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