How much does Full Plates Full Potential give?

Full Plates Full Potential reported 36 itemized grants totaling $367,045, out of $1,960,180 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Full Plates Full Potential fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (96%), Health (2%), Human Services (1%).

Who are Full Plates Full Potential's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Food for All Services ($135k), Bath Area Family YMCA ($95k), Medical Care Development Inc ($92k).

Does Full Plates Full Potential fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Full Plates Full Potential?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Good Shepherd Food Bank, Elmina B Sewall Foundation.

Where is Full Plates Full Potential based?

Full Plates Full Potential is based in ME.

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Maine · Public charity

Full Plates Full Potential

We are ending childhood hunger by helping schools and nonprofits maximize participation in usda child nutrition programs. We support initiatives that reach food-insecure children with free and reduced price meals through the national school lunch program, school breakfast program, child and adult care food programs, and the summer food…

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 36
Itemized grants FY2025: 37
Organizations funded FY2024: 16%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $367k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $15,500
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 81; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Full Plates Full Potential funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalHealthOther

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	36	$367k	17%
FY2024	37	$475k	16%
FY2023	45	$614k	22%
FY2022	49	$610k	18%
FY2021	68	$762k	31%
FY2020	81	$802k	93%
FY2019	6	$45k	50%
FY2018	4	$26k	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, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$3.6MHealth$70kHuman Services$45kYouth Development$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Food for All Services	$135,000	3	n/a
Bath Area Family YMCA	$94,750	6	1%
Medical Care Development Inc	$92,450	8	0%
Msad 61	$82,590	7	n/a
Alfond Youth & Community Center	$80,552	6	1%
City of South Portland	$79,250	4	n/a
Augusta Teen Center of the Boys & Girls Club	$78,100	4	9%
Deer Isle - Stonington Community School District #13	$75,984	6	n/a
Rsu 04	$75,750	4	n/a
Kittery	$71,811	6	n/a

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All grantees of Full Plates Full Potential by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Food for All Services	$135,000	3	n/a
Bath Area Family YMCA	$94,750	6	1%
Medical Care Development Inc	$92,450	8	0%
Msad 61	$82,590	7	n/a
Alfond Youth & Community Center	$80,552	6	1%
City of South Portland	$79,250	4	n/a
Augusta Teen Center of the Boys & Girls Club	$78,100	4	9%
Deer Isle - Stonington Community School District #13	$75,984	6	n/a
Rsu 04	$75,750	4	n/a
Kittery	$71,811	6	n/a
Rsu 57	$63,000	5	n/a
Waterville Public Schools	$61,902	5	n/a
Rsu #20	$58,350	5	n/a
Cultivating Community	$56,563	2	3%
Cumberland County Food Security Council	$56,000	6	2%
Winslow Public Schools	$53,026	5	n/a
Msad 60	$53,000	4	n/a
Aroostook County Action Program	$52,030	3	0%
School Administrative District No 13	$51,521	6	n/a
Sheepscot Valley Rsu 12	$49,619	5	n/a
Mt Blue School Nutrition	$48,921	5	n/a
Washington Academy	$48,728	5	0%
School Administrative District #44	$47,810	4	n/a
Regional School Unit 10	$47,749	4	n/a
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano	$46,500	3	1%
YWCA Central Maine	$45,367	4	1%
Bucksport High School	$45,000	4	n/a
Rsu 2	$44,955	3	n/a
Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc	$44,629	2	0%
Msad 27	$44,500	4	n/a
Boys&Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley	$44,033	4	0%
Madawaska Middle High School	$43,750	5	n/a
Regional School Unit #3 Ace	$43,670	3	n/a
Msad 70	$40,790	3	n/a
Portland Public Schools	$40,623	4	n/a
Msad 15	$39,950	3	n/a
Regional School Unit No 18	$36,119	3	n/a
Maine Youth Alliance	$35,325	4	3%
Rsu 73	$35,250	3	n/a
City of Sanford Voter Registration	$34,890	5	n/a
Community Regional Charter School	$34,463	3	0%
Young Mens Christian Association of Auburn-Lewiston	$33,301	3	0%
City of Westbrook	$33,109	4	n/a
Regional School Unit 40	$31,342	3	n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Border Towns	$30,450	2	10%
Young Men's Christian Association Old Town/Orono	$30,034	3	1%
MaineHealth	$30,000	1	0%
Belfast Soup Kitchen	$30,000	3	2%
Healthy Communities of the Capital Area	$30,000	1	3%
St John Valley Technology Center	$30,000	4	n/a
Town of Scarborough	$29,000	3	n/a
Rsu 21	$28,642	3	n/a
Rsu 16	$28,568	3	n/a
Augusta School Department	$27,574	3	n/a
Msad 58	$26,250	2	n/a
Msad 12	$25,423	3	n/a
Trinity Jubilee Center Inc	$25,238	3	1%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine	$25,000	2	0%
Town of York	$24,570	3	n/a
Msad 59	$23,952	2	n/a
East Range II School	$23,500	1	n/a
Regional School Unit 56	$23,097	2	n/a
Bonny Eagle (Msad 6)	$22,388	3	n/a
Lewiston Public Schools	$21,250	2	n/a
Town of Milo Msad 41	$21,123	2	n/a
Waldo Community Action Partners	$21,000	2	0%
Rsu 71	$20,015	2	n/a
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program	$20,000	2	0%
Penobscot Indian Nation	$20,000	2	n/a
Msad 46	$18,250	1	n/a
Rsu #13	$17,500	2	n/a
Rsu 75	$17,000	2	n/a
Msad 35	$17,000	2	n/a
Rsu 49	$16,821	2	n/a
Auburn Housing Authority	$16,785	2	n/a
Rsu 22msad 22	$16,750	2	n/a
City of Bangor	$16,270	2	n/a
Msad #54	$16,000	2	n/a
Saco School Nutrition Program	$16,000	2	n/a
Town of Millinocket	$15,575	2	n/a
City of Auburn	$15,412	2	n/a
Cape Elizabeth School Department	$15,000	1	n/a
Rsu 14	$14,753	1	n/a
Rsu 63	$14,726	2	n/a
Cherryfield Elementary	$14,709	2	n/a
My Place Teen Center Inc	$13,337	1	1%
Appleton Public Schools	$11,877	2	n/a
Bangor Young Men's Christian Association	$11,577	1	0%
Town of Machias	$11,500	1	n/a
Rsu 86	$11,500	1	n/a
Westbrook Public Schools	$10,500	1	n/a
West Bath Public Schools	$10,137	1	n/a
Saco School Nutrition Program	$10,000	1	n/a
Trenton Public School	$10,000	1	n/a
The Kindness Program	$10,000	1	n/a
Rivers & Roads Maine	$10,000	1	n/a
St George Municipal School Unit	$9,960	1	n/a
Charlotte School Department	$9,500	1	n/a
Msad #30	$9,250	1	n/a
Rsu 80	$9,105	1	n/a
Hope Public Schools	$9,000	1	n/a
Town of Brooklin	$9,000	1	n/a
Town of Lisbon	$9,000	1	n/a
Rsu 34	$8,500	1	n/a
The Progress Center Inc	$8,500	1	0%
Mi'Kmaq Nation	$8,500	1	n/a
Calais School Dept	$8,500	1	n/a
Woodland Consolidated	$8,250	1	n/a
Lincolnville Public Schools	$8,233	1	n/a
Downeast Family Young Mens Christian Association	$8,000	1	0%
Rsu 5	$8,000	1	n/a
Indian Township Passamaquoddy School Committee	$8,000	1	n/a
Rsu #89	$7,800	1	n/a
Rsu29	$7,500	1	n/a
Rsu 26	$7,420	1	n/a
City of Brewer Fire Department	$6,950	1	n/a
Maine School Administrative District 41	$6,738	1	n/a
City of Biddeford Maine	$6,500	1	n/a
Msad 72	$6,500	1	n/a
Rsu 64	$6,500	1	n/a
Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine	$6,300	1	n/a
Greenbush Public Schools	$5,800	1	n/a
Brunswick School Department	$5,750	1	n/a
Midcoast Maine Community Action	$5,750	1	0%
Wells - Ogunquit Community School District	$5,750	1	n/a
Caswell School Department	$5,720	1	n/a
Rsu #74	$5,500	1	n/a
Rsu 23	$5,500	1	n/a
Msad 31	$5,375	1	n/a
Hermon School Department	$5,250	1	n/a
Andover Elementary School	$5,250	1	n/a
Town of Skowhegan	$5,220	1	n/a
Rsu 24	$5,145	1	n/a
Yarmouth Community Services	$5,135	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Full Plates Full Potential supplied at peak.

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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 29.

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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 IncME80.6× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Melmac Education Foundation · Onion Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Bangor Savings Bank 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 Full Plates Full Potential

How much does Full Plates Full Potential give?: Full Plates Full Potential reported 36 itemized grants totaling $367,045, out of $1,960,180 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Full Plates Full Potential fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (96%), Health (2%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Full Plates Full Potential's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Food for All Services ($135k), Bath Area Family YMCA ($95k), Medical Care Development Inc ($92k).
Does Full Plates Full Potential fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Full Plates Full Potential?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Good Shepherd Food Bank, Elmina B Sewall Foundation.
Where is Full Plates Full Potential based?: Full Plates Full Potential is based in ME.