How much does Maine Children's Trust give?

Maine Children's Trust reported 14 grants totaling $12,122,228 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Maine Children's Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (56%), Crime & Legal (32%), Health (7%).

Who are Maine Children's Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kennebec Valley Community Action Program ($12M), Penquis Cap ($11M), Community Concepts Inc ($11M).

Does Maine Children's Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Children's Trust?

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

Where is Maine Children's Trust based?

Maine Children's Trust is based in ME.

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Maine · Public charity

Maine Children's Trust

The Maine Children's Trust is a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent abuse and neglect by organizing a strong unified voice that abuse is preventable and to facilitate collaboration to accomplish this goal.

$12M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 13%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $886,393
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,902,394
Organizations funded a year: 15 to 22; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $4.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Maine Children's Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationOther

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	14	$12M	0%
FY2024	16	$11M	13%
FY2023	15	$10M	0%
FY2022	15	$10M	0%
FY2021	16	$8.9M	0%
FY2020	18	$8.9M	0%
FY2019	19	$8.9M	0%
FY2018	22	$8.7M	14%

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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 2025.

Human Services$48MCrime & Legal$28MHealth$6.2MEducation$4.3M

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
Kennebec Valley Community Action Program	$12,428,741	9	5%
Penquis Cap	$11,004,075	9	3%
Community Concepts Inc	$10,815,952	9	7%
The Opportunity Alliance	$7,806,690	9	3%
Aroostook Council for Healthy Families	$6,372,969	9	99%
Franklin County Children's Task	$6,334,285	9	67%
Southern Maine Health Care	$6,135,020	8	1%
Dechsunrise Care Facility	$5,411,099	9	100%
University of Maine Cooperative Extension	$4,298,675	9	n/a
Teen & Young Parent Program of Knox County	$4,273,408	7	98%

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All grantees of Maine Children's Trust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kennebec Valley Community Action Program	$12,428,741	9	5%
Penquis Cap	$11,004,075	9	3%
Community Concepts Inc	$10,815,952	9	7%
The Opportunity Alliance	$7,806,690	9	3%
Aroostook Council for Healthy Families	$6,372,969	9	99%
Franklin County Children's Task	$6,334,285	9	67%
Southern Maine Health Care	$6,135,020	8	1%
Dechsunrise Care Facility	$5,411,099	9	100%
University of Maine Cooperative Extension	$4,298,675	9	n/a
Teen & Young Parent Program of Knox County	$4,273,408	7	98%
Maine Family Planning Association	$3,650,580	9	5%
Sunrise Opportunity	$2,565,730	8	12%
Advocates for Children	$2,034,762	5	94%
Kids Free to Grow	$1,922,375	9	79%
Midcoast Maine Community Action	$947,909	9	2%
Healthy Kids	$602,643	9	51%
Broadreach Family and Community Services	$199,720	5	1%
Waldo Community Action Partners	$110,315	2	0%
Child & Family Opportunities (Downeast Community Partners)	$100,123	4	n/a
Children's Center	$15,000	3	0%
Families and Children Together	$11,850	2	0%
Count Me In	$9,000	1	9%
Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care	$6,000	2	0%
Maine Children's Home	$2,000	1	0%

Maine Children's Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 22.

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 IncME37.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Maine Community Action Association Dba Maine Community Action Partnership · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Heart of Maine United Way · United Way Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Western Maine Community Action Inc · Maine Cancer Foundation · Elmina B Sewall 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 Maine Children's Trust

How much does Maine Children's Trust give?: Maine Children's Trust reported 14 grants totaling $12,122,228 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Maine Children's Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (56%), Crime & Legal (32%), Health (7%).
Who are Maine Children's Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kennebec Valley Community Action Program ($12M), Penquis Cap ($11M), Community Concepts Inc ($11M).
Does Maine Children's Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Children's Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, John T Gorman Foundation, Maine Health Access Foundation Inc.
Where is Maine Children's Trust based?: Maine Children's Trust is based in ME.