Maine · Private foundation
Harold Alfond Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $103M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2024
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $28,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.0B
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Harold Alfond Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 34 | $74M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $72M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $72M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $65M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $51M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $46M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $40M | 38% |
| FY2017 | 45 | $38M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The President and Trustees of Colby College | $97,048,112 | 8 | 6% |
| Alfond Scholarship Foundation | $57,267,096 | 8 | 100% |
| University of Maine System Inc | $37,775,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Northeastern University | $37,014,203 | 5 | 0% |
| Rollins College | $30,000,000 | 4 | 6% |
| The Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges | $16,801,471 | 5 | 66% |
| Thomas College | $15,936,443 | 7 | 15% |
| Alfond Youth & Community Center | $14,491,304 | 8 | 77% |
| Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy | $14,087,352 | 7 | 84% |
| The Jackson Laboratory | $13,550,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($26M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harold Alfond Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 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 · Davis Family Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · Libra Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Harold Alfond Foundation
- How much does Harold Alfond Foundation give?
- Harold Alfond Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $102,710,085 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Harold Alfond Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (74%), Health (7%), Science & Tech (5%).
- Who are Harold Alfond Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The President and Trustees of Colby College ($97M), Alfond Scholarship Foundation ($57M), University of Maine System Inc ($38M).
- Does Harold Alfond Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harold Alfond Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harold Alfond Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Davis Family Foundation, Lunder Foundation.
- Where is Harold Alfond Foundation based?
- Harold Alfond Foundation is based in ME.
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