Maine · Private foundation
Fore River 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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2025
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $128,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 94
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Fore River 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; $423k 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 | 90 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 86 | $1.5M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 94 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $1.8M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $1.3M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $1.2M | 47% |
| FY2019 | 77 | $1.4M | 14% |
| FY2018 | 78 | $874k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trust for Public Land | $1,095,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $705,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Acadia | $683,500 | 8 | 7% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $467,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $447,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve | $436,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Center for Science in the Public Interest | $400,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Family Planning Association of Maine Inc | $397,500 | 6 | 1% |
| The News Literacy Project Inc | $340,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Corporation of St Timothy's School | $270,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fore River Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Horizon Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Fore River Foundation
- How much does Fore River Foundation give?
- Fore River Foundation reported 91 grants totaling $1,649,139 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 94 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fore River Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Education (14%), Civil Rights (14%).
- Who are Fore River Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Trust for Public Land ($1.1M), Earthjustice ($705k), Friends of Acadia ($684k).
- Does Fore River Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fore River 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 Fore River Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Colket Family Foundation, Ethel D Colket Foundation.
- Where is Fore River Foundation based?
- Fore River Foundation is based in ME.
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