How much does Coastal Enterprises Inc give?

Coastal Enterprises Inc reported 35 itemized grants totaling $1,785,900, out of $2,229,628 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 91 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Coastal Enterprises Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (81%), Education (13%), Community Improvement (4%).

Who are Coastal Enterprises Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Partner Community Capital Inc ($266k), Kennebec Valley Community Action Program ($250k), Summit Community Church ($250k).

Does Coastal Enterprises Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Coastal Enterprises Inc based?

Coastal Enterprises Inc is based in ME.

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Maine · Public charity

Coastal Enterprises Inc

Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities with low income in maine and rural regions.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 35
Itemized grants FY2025: 91
Organizations funded FY2024: 82%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $212,500
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 91; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $167M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 82% of the organizations Coastal Enterprises Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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	35	$1.8M	74%
FY2024	91	$4.2M	82%
FY2023	59	$3.5M	100%
FY2017	1	$266k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$6.4MEducation$1.0MCommunity Improvement$304kReligion$80kHealth$68kEnvironment$38kPublic Benefit$38k

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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Partner Community Capital Inc	$266,037	1	8%
Kennebec Valley Community Action Program	$250,000	2	1%
Summit Community Church	$250,000	1	n/a
Seedlings to Sunflowers	$250,000	2	10%
Circle of Friends Daycare	$250,000	1	n/a
Maine Mountain Children's House	$250,000	2	33%
Bath Area Family YMCA	$250,000	2	3%
Tree Frog Learning Center LLC	$250,000	1	n/a
Community Concepts Inc	$250,000	2	1%
Boys&Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley	$250,000	1	6%

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All grantees of Coastal Enterprises Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Partner Community Capital Inc	$266,037	1	8%
Kennebec Valley Community Action Program	$250,000	2	1%
Summit Community Church	$250,000	1	n/a
Seedlings to Sunflowers	$250,000	2	10%
Circle of Friends Daycare	$250,000	1	n/a
Maine Mountain Children's House	$250,000	2	33%
Bath Area Family YMCA	$250,000	2	3%
Tree Frog Learning Center LLC	$250,000	1	n/a
Community Concepts Inc	$250,000	2	1%
Boys&Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley	$250,000	1	6%
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano	$250,000	2	7%
The Quimby Child Care Center	$200,000	2	n/a
Stepping Stones Montessori School	$200,000	2	n/a
Milestones Preschool and Childcare	$195,900	2	n/a
Windham School Age Childcare Assoc	$187,500	2	16%
Beth Brunswick Memorial Fund for Ch	$187,500	2	5%
Downeast Family Young Mens Christian Association	$187,500	2	2%
Fairy Forest LLC	$187,500	2	n/a
Pjs Childcare	$164,300	2	n/a
Abc 123s Daycare LLC	$150,000	1	n/a
Bangor Montessori School LLC	$150,000	1	n/a
Countryside Kids Quality Childcare	$130,000	2	n/a
Indian Township Tribal Government	$125,000	2	n/a
Kiddie Cove Daycare LLC	$122,200	2	n/a
Sheepscott Village Daycare LLC	$112,700	1	n/a
Kingfield Kinder Care	$102,400	3	n/a
Happy Little Paradise Childcare Cooperative	$80,000	1	n/a
Cross Point Community Church	$80,000	1	n/a
Pettengill Learning Academy LLC	$80,000	1	n/a
Lil Bucks N Does Daycare	$80,000	1	n/a
Western Maine Community Action Inc	$80,000	2	0%
Graces Busy Bees Learning Center LLC	$80,000	1	n/a
Child Development Center	$80,000	1	n/a
Levey Day School	$79,700	2	13%
Glory Days Family Child Care & Preschool	$76,700	1	n/a
Riverside Academy	$68,000	1	n/a
Mainegenral Medical Center	$68,000	1	n/a
Kidspace Inclusive Childcare	$68,000	1	n/a
Pony Club Learning Center	$60,000	1	n/a
Little Hands Learning Center	$60,000	1	n/a
Blissful Beginnings Childcare LLC	$58,200	1	n/a
Penobscot Bay YMCA	$54,500	2	1%
Munchkin Manor LLC	$51,500	1	n/a
Growing Minds Early Learning Center LLC	$51,000	1	n/a
Community Montessori of Greater Portland	$47,800	2	28%
String Bean Farm School	$46,300	1	n/a
Healthy Kids Extended Day	$45,900	1	n/a
Mis Primeros Pasos My First Steps LLC	$44,200	1	n/a
Blueprints Learning Center Inc	$44,000	1	n/a
The Bay School	$37,500	1	2%
Little Saplings Child Care Center	$37,500	1	81%
Young Mens Christian Association Sanford-Springvale	$37,500	1	1%
Central Lincoln County Young Mens Christian Association Inc	$37,500	1	1%
Youth and Family Outreach	$37,500	1	2%
Little Schoolhouse Childcare	$37,500	1	9%
Linda Boyle Nature Center Inc	$37,500	1	n/a
Chickadee Toddler Care & Preschool	$33,200	1	n/a
Together We Grow LLC	$30,000	2	n/a
University of Maine System Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Busy Bees Childcare LLC	$30,000	1	n/a
Moose Alley Daycare LLC	$30,000	1	n/a
Precious Little Ones Child Care Center	$30,000	1	n/a
Ols LLC	$30,000	1	n/a
Kids Kove Childcare & Learning Center LLC	$29,600	1	n/a
Tiny Sprouts Daycare LLC	$29,600	1	n/a
E M Crocker LLC (Kimmy's Kids)	$27,800	1	n/a
Starfish Academy	$26,700	1	n/a
Kids Next Door LLC	$25,500	1	n/a
Wild Oats Learning Center	$25,000	1	n/a
Freeport Montessori School LLC	$22,800	1	n/a
Learning Ladder Childcare LLC	$22,500	1	n/a
Play LLC	$22,400	1	n/a
Pine Tree Society Inc	$22,355	1	0%
Pooh Bear Child Care LLC	$20,570	1	n/a
Serendipity Creek Childcare Center LLC	$18,000	1	n/a
Tiny Cubs Childcare LLC	$16,000	2	n/a
Sheepscot Valley Childrens House	$15,800	1	3%
Kennebec Valley YMCA	$15,400	1	0%
Tonya's Family Childcare Inc	$15,075	1	n/a
Rsu 12 Staff Daycare	$15,000	1	n/a
Congregational Church in Cumberland	$13,430	1	n/a
Laugh & Learn Academy	$12,000	1	n/a
United 4 Child Care	$12,000	1	8%
Mainegeneral Health	$12,000	1	n/a
Riverside Academy Inc	$12,000	1	0%
Miss Sugarmans School for Extraordinary Children LLC	$11,850	1	n/a
The Willow School	$10,530	1	n/a
Bee Curious Childcare Center LLC	$10,520	1	n/a
Gorham Arts Alliance	$10,500	1	n/a
Selina Gregoire-Poppy Patch Learning Center	$10,320	1	n/a
Little Lobsters Daycare LLC	$8,500	1	n/a
Tiny Explorers	$8,500	1	n/a
Amelias Daycare LLC	$8,500	1	n/a
Brookview Childcare LLC	$8,500	1	n/a
Hollis House Child Care	$8,500	1	n/a
Apple Blossom Childcare	$8,500	1	n/a
Little Bears Daycare	$8,500	1	n/a
Busy Bees Childcare	$8,300	1	n/a
Oxford School Age Child Care	$7,900	1	0%
The Octopod Corral LLC	$7,225	1	n/a
The Cub House Childcare	$6,060	1	n/a
Dovetail Preschool LLC	$5,700	1	n/a
Safe Haven Chid Care and Education Center LLC	$5,525	1	n/a
M&R Sweet Child Care LLC	$5,525	1	n/a
The Rose Hill Clubhouse LLC	$5,525	1	n/a

Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Coastal Enterprises Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 27.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME31.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · YMCA Alliance of Northern New England · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · United Way Inc · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation

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 Coastal Enterprises Inc

How much does Coastal Enterprises Inc give?: Coastal Enterprises Inc reported 35 itemized grants totaling $1,785,900, out of $2,229,628 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 91 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Coastal Enterprises Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (81%), Education (13%), Community Improvement (4%).
Who are Coastal Enterprises Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Partner Community Capital Inc ($266k), Kennebec Valley Community Action Program ($250k), Summit Community Church ($250k).
Does Coastal Enterprises Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Coastal Enterprises Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation, YMCA Alliance of Northern New England.
Where is Coastal Enterprises Inc based?: Coastal Enterprises Inc is based in ME.