· Public charity
Maine Farmland Trust
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $421k
- $250k+1 grant · $414k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Niweskok | $413,702 |
| Dostie Farm | $138,634 |
| Individual grant recipient | $107,457 |
| Brigreen Farms | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| Second Frost Farm | $55,000 |
| Misty Brook Farm | $18,090 |
| Lost & Found Farm | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Six River Farm | $10,000 |
| New Learning Journey Inc | $10,000 |
| Little Ridge Farm | $10,000 |
| Buckle Farm | $5,661 |
| 4 Labs Farm | $5,086 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $776k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HIHEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT INC2× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +90%
- GWGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST2× · 2018–2020 · $14k · revenue ×12
- CMCoastal Mountains Land Trust2× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- MHMAINE HARVEST CREDIT UNIONone grant, 2019 · $313k
- MOMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATIONgraduated2× · 2017–2020 · $72k · revenue +71%
- SHSAP HOUND MAPLE COMPANYone grant, 2023 · $65k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
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How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maine Farmland Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Farmland Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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