· Private foundation
Long Cove Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN MAINE | $300,000 |
| ISLAND INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION | $60,000 |
| MAINE CENTER FOR COASTAL FISHERIES | $50,000 |
| COASTAL RIVERS CONSERVATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| CARPENTER BOAT SHOP | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 13% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 37% of Long Cove Foundation Inc’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.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION9× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +33%- BLBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +106%
The President and Trustees of Colby College5× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY MAINEone grant, 2023 · $300k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +236%
Maine Island Trail Associationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · 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.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
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.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…
Our mission is to cultivate the resilience of our coastal pond ecosystems through science, collaboration, and education.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARPENTERS BOAT SHOP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
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 · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Long Cove Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Long Cove Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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