· Private foundation
Female Samaritan Association
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Opportunity Alliance | $4,800 |
| Salvation Army | $1,550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $800 |
| Root Cellar | $650 |
| Through These Doors | $650 |
| Wayside Soup Kitchen | $500 |
| Project Feed | $500 |
| Wayside Soup Kitchen | $500 |
| Abba | $450 |
| Cultivating Community | $350 |
| St Vincent de Paul | $300 |
| Simple Gifts | $300 |
| Learning Works | $300 |
| Stevens Ave Congregational Church | $300 |
| Grace Street Ministry | $250 |
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, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TOThe Opportunity Alliance9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +53%
- WFWayside Food Programs8× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +56%
- SGSIMPLE GIFTS7× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- PFPortland Family Shelterone grant, 2017 · $1k
- SASalvation Army Camp Sebagoone grant, 2019 · $1k
- M(MainStay (Program of Opportunity Alliance)one grant, 2019 · $500
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.
We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…
Crossroads provides gender-responsive addiction and behavioral health treatment services in a safe and respectful environment so individuals and families can lead healthy lives.
The locker project connects food-insecure children in maine with nourishing food to improve their learning capacity, health, and future.
Our purpose is to work with people to meet their needs for safe and adequate shelter, clothing, food and basic well-being in a manner that maintains or improves their self worth and dignity.
To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.
Provide food and basic necessities to individuals and families in need in the Camden, Maine area
Our mission is to provide trauma-informed harm reduction services to people who are unhoused in the Portland Metro area. Our focus is on mental health services, nursing care, extreme weather supplies, food and safer use supplies for people…
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 43 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 The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds SIMPLE GIFTS ↗
- Who funds THE ROOT CELLAR ↗
- Who funds THROUGH THESE DOORS ↗
- Who funds St Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds COMMONSPACE ↗
- Who funds LEARNINGWORKS ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
- Who funds The Iris Network ↗
- Who funds ABBA A WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
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 · Portland Provident Association · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Good Shepherd Food Bank · John T Gorman Foundation · The Smith Family Charitable Ta · The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Female Samaritan Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Female Samaritan Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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