Maine · Private foundation
Granite Point Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $780k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Granite Point Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $780k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $253k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $161k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $151k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $206k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $41k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $64k | 10% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $42k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams College | $750,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mystic Seaport Museum Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of Casco Bay | $134,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Maine Island Trail Association | $125,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Royal River Community Players | $53,000 | 2 | 28% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Preble Street | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cape Elizabeth Land Trust | $29,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Gulf of Maine Research Institute | $20,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Mvyradio Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Granite Point Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 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 · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · The Redmond Family Foundation · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · The Miley Foundation · Block Island Maritime Funding Inc
How this is measured
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About Granite Point Foundation
- How much does Granite Point Foundation give?
- Granite Point Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $780,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Granite Point Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (20%), Environment (19%).
- Who are Granite Point Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Williams College ($750k), Mystic Seaport Museum Inc ($250k), Friends of Casco Bay ($134k).
- Does Granite Point Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Granite Point 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 Granite Point Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Sam L Cohen Foundation, Davis Family Foundation.
- Where is Granite Point Foundation based?
- Granite Point Foundation is based in ME.
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