Maine · Public charity
Maine Farmland Trust
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $939k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $413,702
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Maine Farmland Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% 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 | 15 | $939k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $65k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $227k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $467k | 85% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $235k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $308k | 90% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $409k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $162k | 83% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niweskok | $413,702 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Harvest Credit Union | $312,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association | $71,634 | 2 | 2% |
| Healthy Island Project Inc | $15,570 | 2 | 5% |
| Three Rivers Land Trust | $14,835 | 2 | 2% |
| Great Works Regional Land Trust | $13,912 | 2 | 3% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coastal Mountains Land Trust | $11,258 | 2 | 0% |
| Western Foothills Land Trust | $11,227 | 1 | 3% |
| Healthy Acadia | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niweskok | $413,702 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Harvest Credit Union | $312,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association | $71,634 | 2 | 2% |
| Healthy Island Project Inc | $15,570 | 2 | 5% |
| Three Rivers Land Trust | $14,835 | 2 | 2% |
| Great Works Regional Land Trust | $13,912 | 2 | 3% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coastal Mountains Land Trust | $11,258 | 2 | 0% |
| Western Foothills Land Trust | $11,227 | 1 | 3% |
| Healthy Acadia | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Learning Journey Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Land in Common Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Blue Angel | $6,760 | 1 | n/a |
| Midcoast Conservancy | $5,735 | 1 | n/a |
| Royal River Conservation Trust | $5,087 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maine Farmland Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Onion Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Momentum Conservation · Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) · Edward C Johnson Fund · John Sage Foundation
How this is measured
About Maine Farmland Trust
- How much does Maine Farmland Trust give?
- Maine Farmland Trust reported 15 itemized grants totaling $938,630, out of $1,091,762 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Maine Farmland Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (86%), Environment (9%), Science & Tech (2%).
- Who are Maine Farmland Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Niweskok ($414k), Maine Harvest Credit Union ($313k), Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association ($72k).
- Does Maine Farmland Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Farmland Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Onion Foundation, Quimby Family Foundation.
- Where is Maine Farmland Trust based?
- Maine Farmland Trust is based in ME.
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