How much does Libra Foundation give?

Libra Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $4,260,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 85 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Libra Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (58%), Health (24%), Education (8%).

Who are Libra Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pineland Farms Inc ($36M), MaineHealth Services ($7.8M), MaineHealth ($4.1M).

Does Libra Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Libra Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Libra Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Davis Family Foundation, Fisher Charitable Foundation.

Where is Libra Foundation based?

Libra Foundation is based in ME.

Foundation Dossiers

Maine · Private foundation

Libra Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 56
Grants FY2025: 67
Organizations funded FY2024: 12%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $3,845,000
Organizations funded a year: 63 to 85; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $157M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Libra Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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	56	$4.3M	4%
FY2024	67	$5.2M	12%
FY2023	63	$6.1M	5%
FY2022	77	$6.3M	13%
FY2021	85	$6.4M	22%
FY2020	83	$6.4M	22%
FY2019	85	$8.6M	22%
FY2018	85	$10M	51%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$32MHealth$13MEducation$4.5MArts & Culture$2.3MRecreation & Sports$928kAnimals$646kEnvironment$361kHuman Services$335kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pineland Farms Inc	$35,810,000	9	58%
MaineHealth Services	$7,809,088	8	4%
MaineHealth	$4,100,000	3	0%
Foxcroft Academy Trustees Of	$3,692,983	7	20%
Gulf of Maine Research Institute	$544,000	9	2%
The Jackson Laboratory	$300,000	3	0%
Nordic Heritage Ski Club	$250,000	5	89%
Sunrise County Economic Council	$243,062	1	7%
Libra Future Fund Inc	$208,035	4	100%
President and Trustees of Bates College	$200,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Libra Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pineland Farms Inc	$35,810,000	9	58%
MaineHealth Services	$7,809,088	8	4%
MaineHealth	$4,100,000	3	0%
Foxcroft Academy Trustees Of	$3,692,983	7	20%
Gulf of Maine Research Institute	$544,000	9	2%
The Jackson Laboratory	$300,000	3	0%
Nordic Heritage Ski Club	$250,000	5	89%
Sunrise County Economic Council	$243,062	1	7%
Libra Future Fund Inc	$208,035	4	100%
President and Trustees of Bates College	$200,000	4	0%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc	$195,000	9	1%
Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine	$192,000	9	4%
Portland Museum of Art	$185,000	9	0%
Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra	$180,000	9	1%
Portland Stage Company	$170,000	9	1%
Community Dental	$166,373	7	2%
Good Shepherd Food Bank	$144,000	9	0%
Maine Maritime Museum	$100,200	9	0%
University of Southern Maine Foundation	$100,000	4	0%
The Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges	$100,000	1	3%
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc	$100,000	2	1%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine	$90,000	8	2%
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation	$90,000	9	0%
Maine Historical Society	$87,250	9	1%
Island Institute	$84,000	9	0%
Mid Coast Hospital	$75,000	1	0%
The Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness	$60,000	9	7%
Maine Audubon Society	$60,000	8	1%
Maine Association of Nonprofits	$58,000	9	1%
Maine Farmland Trust	$52,000	9	0%
Presque Isle Community Recreation Association Inc	$50,000	1	80%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust	$50,000	2	0%
Wood Island Life Saving Station Association	$50,000	2	3%
Bangor Symphony Orchestra	$44,000	9	1%
Ogunquit Playhouse Foundation	$42,500	9	0%
Maine State Music Theatre	$42,500	9	0%
Museum of Art Ogunquit D/B/A Ogunquit Museum of Art	$42,500	9	1%
Home Inc	$42,000	9	0%
Bay Chamber Concerts Inc	$42,000	9	0%
Maine State Ballet	$42,000	9	1%
Maine Discovery Museum	$42,000	9	1%
Portland Ovations	$42,000	9	1%
Penobscot Marine Museum	$42,000	9	1%
Penobscot Theatre Company	$41,000	9	0%
Portland Conservatory of Music	$41,000	9	1%
Legal Services for Maine Elders Inc	$40,000	8	0%
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences	$40,000	8	0%
Penquis Cap Inc	$40,000	8	0%
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc	$40,000	8	0%
AUTISM SOCIETY OF MAINE d/b/a ASM	$40,000	8	2%
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association	$40,000	8	0%
Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals	$40,000	8	0%
Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation	$40,000	8	1%
Center for Contemporary Art	$40,000	8	1%
Downeast Community Partners Inc	$40,000	8	0%
The Iris Network	$40,000	8	0%
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers	$40,000	8	0%
Lakes Environmental Association	$40,000	8	1%
The Center for Grieving Children	$40,000	8	0%
10TH MOUNTAIN SKI CLUB d/b/a FORT KENT OUTDOOR CENTER	$39,189	1	n/a
Husson University	$35,000	2	0%
Furniture Friends	$35,000	4	6%
Abbe Museum	$32,000	7	1%
State of Maine	$27,000	6	n/a
Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters	$25,000	1	1%
Monhegan Historical & Cultural Museum Association	$25,000	5	1%
Center Theatre Inc	$25,000	1	8%
Bath Area Family YMCA	$25,000	1	1%
Forest Society of Maine	$25,000	5	0%
Morrison Center	$25,000	1	0%
Tree Street Youth Inc	$25,000	1	3%
The Maine Special Educationmental Health Collaborative	$24,000	1	1%
Moosehead Lake Region Economic Development Corp	$20,000	1	8%
Acadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital	$20,000	1	0%
Moosehead Marine Museum	$20,000	2	3%
Tumblehome Inc	$17,290	1	12%
Penobscot Community Health Center	$15,000	2	0%
Kennebec Valley Mental Health Cente D/B/A Kennebec Behavioral Health	$15,000	3	0%
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Pine Tree Society Inc	$15,000	2	0%
Young Mens Christian Association	$15,000	3	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$12,687	5	0%
317 Main St Community Center Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Maine FFA Association	$10,000	2	16%
The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter	$10,000	1	1%
Midcoast Recovery Coalition	$10,000	2	5%
Black Mountain of Maine Attn Roger Arsenault	$10,000	1	1%
Portland Community Health Center	$10,000	1	0%
Prosperityme	$10,000	1	0%
Sweetser	$10,000	1	0%
Homeless Services of Aroostook Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Bangor Young Men's Christian Association	$10,000	1	0%
Boys&Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley	$10,000	1	0%
Bowdoin College	$10,000	1	0%
Bangor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center	$10,000	1	0%
Downeast Family Young Mens Christian Association	$10,000	1	0%
Southern Maine Agency on Aging	$10,000	1	0%
Thomas College	$10,000	1	0%
Locker Project	$10,000	2	0%
Town of Jackman	$10,000	1	n/a
Portland Parks Conservancy	$10,000	1	9%
Mobius Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Harrington Family Health Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Let's Get Ready Inc	$10,000	1	0%
My Place Teen Center Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting	$10,000	2	0%
Falmouth Memorial Library Association	$10,000	1	1%
Pine Tree Hospice	$10,000	1	5%
Commonspace	$10,000	1	0%
Coastal Kids Preschool	$8,250	1	1%
The Maine Girls Academy	$8,000	1	n/a
Riding to the Top	$7,500	1	1%
Victoria Mansion	$7,500	1	1%
Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine	$7,000	2	1%
Maine Writers and Publishers Allian	$5,000	1	2%
Oxford County Mental Health Service	$5,000	1	0%
The Hurricane Island Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
High Peaks Alliance	$5,000	1	1%
Boots2roots	$5,000	1	2%
Common Threads of Maine	$5,000	1	3%
Friends of Evergreen	$5,000	1	n/a
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust	$5,000	1	1%
Bagaduce Music Lending Library	$5,000	1	2%
The Susan L Curtis Foundation	$5,000	1	1%
Brick Store Museum Inc	$5,000	1	1%
The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies	$5,000	1	3%
Aroostook Arts & Education Center Wintergreen Arts Center	$5,000	1	3%
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center	$5,000	1	1%
Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust Corp	$5,000	1	1%
A Climate to Thrive	$5,000	1	2%
The General Henry Knox Museum	$5,000	1	2%
Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine	$5,000	1	0%
Casco Bay Health Center	$5,000	1	n/a
Youth Full Maine	$5,000	1	1%
Maine Irish Heritage Center	$5,000	1	2%
Center for a Green Future Aka Growing to Give	$5,000	1	2%
Bremen Library Association	$5,000	1	n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Cultivating Community	$5,000	1	0%
Eastern Area Agency on Aging	$5,000	1	0%
St Joseph Healthcare Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Ruth's Reusable Resources	$5,000	1	1%
Washington County Council of Governments	$5,000	1	2%
Partners for World Health	$5,000	1	1%
Maine Media College	$5,000	1	0%
St Croix Recreation Association	$5,000	1	n/a
Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Palaver Strings Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Step Up Parents	$5,000	1	3%
Red Eagle Foundation	$3,775	1	n/a
Baker Mountain Ski Tow Club	$3,000	1	n/a
University of Maine Alumni Chapter of Southern Maine Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Monson Historical Society	$500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Libra Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 140 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 140.

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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 IncME138.3× affinity103 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Onion Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable 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 Libra Foundation

How much does Libra Foundation give?: Libra Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $4,260,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 85 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Libra Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (58%), Health (24%), Education (8%).
Who are Libra Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pineland Farms Inc ($36M), MaineHealth Services ($7.8M), MaineHealth ($4.1M).
Does Libra Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Libra Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Libra Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Davis Family Foundation, Fisher Charitable Foundation.
Where is Libra Foundation based?: Libra Foundation is based in ME.