Maine · Private foundation
Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $705k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 182
- Grants FY2025
- 135
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $153,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 66 to 140
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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 | 182 | $705k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 135 | $408k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 140 | $488k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $238k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $159k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $299k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Street Skowhegan | $105,700 | 6 | 5% |
| Greater Franklin Development Council | $91,500 | 6 | 16% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $71,850 | 1 | 0% |
| Heart of Ellsworth | $58,500 | 5 | 11% |
| High Peaks Alliance | $51,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Avesta Housing Development Corporation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Saddleback Mountain Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Black Mountain of Maine Attn Roger Arsenault | $49,600 | 5 | 2% |
| Pine Tree Society Inc | $38,800 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Tri Vally Area | $30,300 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 208 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 87 recipients with no EIN on record ($820k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 147 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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Onion Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson
How this is measured
Compare Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation with peer funders
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About Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation
- How much does Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation give?
- Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation reported 182 grants totaling $705,108 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 140 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (21%), Education (18%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Main Street Skowhegan ($106k), Greater Franklin Development Council ($92k), Good Shepherd Food Bank ($72k).
- Does Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation, Elmina B Sewall Foundation.
- Where is Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation based?
- Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation is based in ME.
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