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Maine · Public charity

Maine Blue Collar Scholarship Foundation

To remove the barriers for motivated individuals pursuing a career in the trades. The organization aims to reinvigorate the trades that built america.

$64k
Granted FY2020
60
Grants FY2020
60
Organizations funded FY2020
97%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
8 to 60
FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$863k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 97% of the organizations Maine Blue Collar Scholarship Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202060$64k97%
FY201926$24k100%
FY20188$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Education$93k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2020.

Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,193
Individual grant recipient$1,169
Individual grant recipient$1,148
Individual grant recipient$1,115
Individual grant recipient$1,030

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About Maine Blue Collar Scholarship Foundation

How much does Maine Blue Collar Scholarship Foundation give?
Maine Blue Collar Scholarship Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $64,031 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does Maine Blue Collar Scholarship Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Does Maine Blue Collar Scholarship Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 97% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Maine Blue Collar Scholarship Foundation based?
Maine Blue Collar Scholarship Foundation is based in ME.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $139k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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