· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCAULEY RESIDENCE NORTHERN LIGHT MERCY HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| THE MITCHELL INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| MCAULEY RESIDENCE NORTHERN LIGHT MERCY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| ST BRIGID SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| HOULTON REC CENTER | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE | $10,000 |
| ST MARY OF THE VISITION PARISH FATHER KEVIN MARTIN | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $5,000 |
| ST MARY OF THE VISITION PARISH | $5,000 |
| THE TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SGSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute7× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +62%
- CCCatholic Charities Maine8× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +5%
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +341%
Funded once
- NLNORTHERN LIGHT MERCY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k
- MIMITCHELL INSTITUTE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $20k
- MHMERCY HOSPTIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $17k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
Role models (bigs) in one-to-one friendships in seven counties throughout Eastern, Coastal, and Central Maine. They partner with parents, in conjunction with over 30 schools and hundreds of volunteers and generous partners in our community…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…
The ASF mission is to provide incentive scholarship grants to Maine children for their higher education and to support Maine's children's aspirations and access to, and preparation for, higher education.
The Maine Children's Trust is a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent abuse and neglect by organizing a strong unified voice that abuse is preventable and to facilitate collaboration to accomplish this goal.
The Autism Society of Maine provides education and resources to support the valued lives of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
Our Mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maines forest community
Waypoint Maine provides a comprehensive array of programs that each year provides essential services and support to over 1,000 children and adults with special needs.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREE STREET YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds AID FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
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 · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Pond Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christopher & Nancy Pierce Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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