Maine · Private foundation
Maine Bee Wellness
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $15k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Maine Bee Wellness funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $15k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $17k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $10k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $825 | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $3k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine State Beekeepers Association Inc | $10,656 | 4 | n/a |
| Eagle Hill Institute | $5,250 | 5 | 0% |
| City of Bangor | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Island Heritage Trust Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bangor Beautiful Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Maine Bee Wellness
- How much does Maine Bee Wellness give?
- Maine Bee Wellness reported 5 grants totaling $15,458 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Maine Bee Wellness fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Environment (18%).
- Who are Maine Bee Wellness's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Maine State Beekeepers Association Inc ($11k), Eagle Hill Institute ($5k), City of Bangor ($4k).
- Does Maine Bee Wellness fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Maine Bee Wellness accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Bee Wellness?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Maine Bee Wellness based?
- Maine Bee Wellness is based in ME.
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