· Private foundation
Harold Alfond Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
- $250k+23 grants · $102M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION | $28,000,000 |
| MAINEGENERAL HEALTH | $14,535,638 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $12,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $7,000,000 |
| ALFOND SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,609,911 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND | $4,502,515 |
| MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM | $4,454,529 |
| BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES | $3,869,390 |
| THOMAS COLLEGE | $3,000,000 |
| THE JACKSON LABORATORY | $2,500,000 |
| FOCUSMAINE | $2,260,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $2,000,612 |
| ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000,000 |
| MAINE MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE ALLIANCE | $1,987,890 |
| JOBS FOR MAINE'S GRADUATES INC | $1,926,461 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Harold Alfond Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
69 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The President and Trustees of Colby College8× · 2017–2024 · $97M · revenue +37%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $37M · revenue +63%- RCROLLINS COLLEGE4× · 2019–2022 · $30M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- MCMAINE CENTER VENTURESone grant, 2019 · $3.0M · revenue -99%
- GWGood Will Home Associationone grant, 2018 · $2.8M · revenue +6% · 68% of their budget
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +50%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
How this is measured
97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 116 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds Alfond Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds WATERVILLE CREATES ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth Services ↗
- Who funds Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds Husson University ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CURRICULUM REDESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE CENTER VENTURES ↗
- Who funds Good Will Home Association ↗
- Who funds Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance ↗
- Who funds KENTS HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS ↗
- Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Support ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harold Alfond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold Alfond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod: 6% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company: 3% of income from government
- Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
- Cahoon Museum of American Art Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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