How much does Maine Cancer Foundation give?

Maine Cancer Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $2,624,037 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Maine Cancer Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (88%), Youth Development (3%), Human Services (3%).

Who are Maine Cancer Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: MaineHealth ($871k), Beth C Wright Cancer Resource Center ($646k), Mainegeneral Health ($550k).

Does Maine Cancer Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Cancer Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Maine Health Access Foundation Inc, John T Gorman Foundation.

Where is Maine Cancer Foundation based?

Maine Cancer Foundation is based in ME.

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants: funding profile →

Maine · Public charity

Maine Cancer Foundation

Maine Cancer Foundation is dedicated to reducing cancer incidence and mortality rates in Maine. 100% of funds raised by the Foundation are used to benefit the people of Maine.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 43
Grants FY2024: 37
Organizations funded FY2023: 24%
First-time grantees FY2023

Read the full brief

Median grant, FY2024: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $180,500
Organizations funded a year: 25 to 37; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $7.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Maine Cancer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $549k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalEducationPhilanthropyOther

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
FY2024still arriving	41	$2.6M	24%
FY2023	37	$2.1M	24%
FY2022	36	$1.3M	28%
FY2021	25	$1.6M	20%
FY2020	36	$841k	39%
FY2019	33	$2.1M	30%
FY2018	32	$2.0M	75%
FY2017	29	$3.1M	n/a

100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$14MYouth Development$469kHuman Services$401kEducation$302kScience & Tech$200kPublic Benefit$120kInternational$85kFood & Nutrition$81kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
MaineHealth	$870,850	6	0%
Beth C Wright Cancer Resource Center	$645,608	7	60%
Mainegeneral Health	$549,777	5	n/a
Penobscot Community Health Center	$548,290	6	0%
Healthy Acadia	$546,845	6	8%
Central Maine Community Health Corporation	$415,409	6	17%
Maine Public Health Association	$413,539	6	83%
Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care	$395,779	5	2%
Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine	$377,500	7	77%
Maine Quality Counts	$356,117	2	4%

Show all 95 grantees

All grantees of Maine Cancer Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
MaineHealth	$870,850	6	0%
Beth C Wright Cancer Resource Center	$645,608	7	60%
Mainegeneral Health	$549,777	5	n/a
Penobscot Community Health Center	$548,290	6	0%
Healthy Acadia	$546,845	6	8%
Central Maine Community Health Corporation	$415,409	6	17%
Maine Public Health Association	$413,539	6	83%
Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care	$395,779	5	2%
Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine	$377,500	7	77%
Maine Quality Counts	$356,117	2	4%
Impact Melanoma Inc	$342,443	5	11%
The Jefferson Cary Foundation	$322,397	3	22%
MaineHealth Services	$313,719	3	0%
University of New England	$301,730	1	0%
York County Community Action Corporation	$252,000	5	0%
Aroostook County Action Program	$234,310	5	1%
Dean Snell Cancer Foundation	$232,500	5	52%
New Mainers Public Health Initiative	$230,000	4	6%
Penquis Cap Inc	$227,500	4	0%
Waldo Community Action Partners	$219,966	4	0%
Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education	$215,186	2	20%
City of Portland	$210,000	3	n/a
The Jackson Laboratory	$199,891	1	0%
Hospitality Homes Inc	$198,000	4	12%
Sarah's House of Maine	$195,000	6	17%
Kennebec Valley Community Action Program	$190,000	4	0%
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen	$190,000	4	0%
Maine Primary Care Association	$181,340	2	5%
Mount Desert Island Hospital	$174,580	2	0%
Downeast Community Partners Inc	$170,000	3	1%
Central Maine Medical Center	$164,000	1	0%
Katahdin Valley Health Center	$164,000	1	1%
Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc	$150,000	2	1%
Waldo County General Hospital	$140,806	2	0%
Angel Flight of New England Inc	$140,000	4	4%
Patient Airlift Services Inc	$140,000	4	3%
Healthy Communities of the Capital Area	$135,000	3	10%
Christine B Foundation Inc	$121,000	4	24%
Community Concepts Inc	$110,000	2	0%
Brians Ride Cancer Fund	$110,000	3	n/a
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation	$105,560	3	0%
Joe Andruzzi Foundation Inc	$105,000	2	2%
Lake Region Senior Service Inc	$104,070	3	33%
Harrington Family Health Center Inc	$100,000	1	4%
Islands Community Medical Services	$100,000	2	1%
Blood Cancer United Inc	$100,000	2	0%
Ak Health and Social Services	$95,000	2	16%
Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point	$94,999	2	n/a
Friends in Action	$94,125	4	9%
Franklin Memorial Hospital	$93,022	1	n/a
Sebasticook Valley Health	$85,791	1	n/a
Sacopee Valley Health Center	$85,000	1	1%
Sebasticook Valley Health Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hosp	$80,000	1	0%
Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital	$80,000	1	0%
Portland Community Health Center	$80,000	1	0%
MRH Corp Northern Light Mayo Hospital	$80,000	1	0%
Community Care	$80,000	1	1%
Augusta Teen Center of the Boys & Girls Club	$80,000	1	8%
Axiom Education & Training Center	$70,000	1	4%
The Snell Foundation	$65,000	3	29%
Maine Association for New Americans	$60,000	1	6%
Fisher House of Boston Inc	$60,000	1	3%
Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County	$60,000	6	12%
Northern Maine Medical Center	$60,000	1	0%
Aroostook Regional Transportation	$60,000	1	2%
Pine Tree Hospice	$60,000	6	7%
Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Ar	$60,000	6	11%
Defend Our Health	$59,996	2	6%
Mainehealth Care at Home	$56,437	1	0%
Hospice Volunteers of Hancock County	$55,000	6	4%
The Aroostook Medical Center Northern Light Ar Gould Hospital	$53,709	2	0%
Downeast Hospice Volunteers	$52,349	6	12%
Children's Oncology Services of Massachusetts Inc	$50,000	1	4%
Hancock County Planning Commission	$50,000	1	12%
Maine Indoor Air Quality Council	$50,000	1	56%
Maine Mobile Health Program Inc	$50,000	1	2%
OUT Maine	$50,000	2	3%
City of Bangor	$49,979	1	n/a
Maine Access Immigrant Network	$45,906	1	9%
YMCA Alliance of Northern New England	$40,000	1	4%
Maine Transgender Network Inc	$40,000	1	n/a
St Joseph Hospital	$39,946	1	0%
St Mary's Regional Medical Center	$37,000	2	0%
Mid Coast Hospital	$33,987	2	0%
Pen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundation	$32,055	1	3%
Independent Transportation Network	$30,000	1	28%
Family Planning Association of Maine Inc	$28,436	1	0%
The Boston House	$20,000	1	n/a
My Breast Cancer Support	$20,000	1	3%
Western Maine Transportation Services Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County	$19,700	3	7%
Bangor Young Men's Christian Association	$10,896	1	0%
Island Connections	$10,000	1	3%
Region 8 Mid-Coast School of Technology	$8,500	1	n/a
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital	$5,520	1	0%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Maine Cancer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 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 85.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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 IncME87.5× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · United Way Inc · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Fisher Charitable Foundation · The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health · Machias Savings Bank Community Development 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.

Compare Maine Cancer Foundation with peer funders

About Maine Cancer Foundation

How much does Maine Cancer Foundation give?: Maine Cancer Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $2,624,037 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Maine Cancer Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (88%), Youth Development (3%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Maine Cancer Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: MaineHealth ($871k), Beth C Wright Cancer Resource Center ($646k), Mainegeneral Health ($550k).
Does Maine Cancer Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Cancer Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Maine Health Access Foundation Inc, John T Gorman Foundation.
Where is Maine Cancer Foundation based?: Maine Cancer Foundation is based in ME.