How much does Maine Initiativesinc give?

Maine Initiativesinc reported 51 itemized grants totaling $1,839,540, out of $1,916,165 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Maine Initiativesinc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (22%), Human Services (22%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are Maine Initiativesinc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition ($1.0M), Resources for Organizing and Social Change ($743k), Southern Maine Workers Center ($328k).

Does Maine Initiativesinc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Initiativesinc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, Good Shepherd Food Bank.

Where is Maine Initiativesinc based?

Maine Initiativesinc is based in ME.

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Maine · Public charity

Maine Initiativesinc

Maine initiatives, a fund for change, cultivates social, economic, and environmental justice through grants and other support to grassroots organizations in maine communities.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 51
Itemized grants FY2025: 61
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $159,050
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 61; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $6.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Maine Initiativesinc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentCrime & LegalHealthOther

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	49	$1.8M	29%
FY2024	61	$1.6M	33%
FY2023	42	$1.6M	31%
FY2022	60	$1.3M	40%
FY2021	33	$1.1M	30%
FY2020	42	$1.3M	29%
FY2019	29	$532k	34%
FY2018	27	$309k	63%

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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 2024.

Civil Rights$1.8MHuman Services$1.7MArts & Culture$942kCommunity Improvement$917kCrime & Legal$331kHealth$294kYouth Development$291kEmployment$275kOther$0

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
Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition	$1,025,381	8	41%
Resources for Organizing and Social Change	$743,449	8	27%
Southern Maine Workers Center	$327,718	7	24%
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano	$300,339	6	2%
Maine Inside Out	$283,879	6	23%
Maine Community Integration	$257,860	7	16%
Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine	$246,020	9	5%
Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition	$217,000	3	34%
Indigo Arts Alliance	$192,554	5	5%
Presente Maine	$182,000	4	8%

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All grantees of Maine Initiativesinc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition	$1,025,381	8	41%
Resources for Organizing and Social Change	$743,449	8	27%
Southern Maine Workers Center	$327,718	7	24%
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano	$300,339	6	2%
Maine Inside Out	$283,879	6	23%
Maine Community Integration	$257,860	7	16%
Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine	$246,020	9	5%
Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition	$217,000	3	34%
Indigo Arts Alliance	$192,554	5	5%
Presente Maine	$182,000	4	8%
Maine-Wabanaki Reach	$172,360	5	10%
The Third Place Inc	$167,143	3	73%
In Her Presence	$150,560	7	7%
Maine Association for New Americans	$148,787	5	5%
Capital Area New Mainers Project	$142,860	5	26%
Intercultural Community Center	$137,166	7	7%
Gateway Community Services Maine	$136,370	6	12%
New Mainers Public Health Initiative	$127,860	5	5%
Ladder to the Moon Network	$127,860	6	22%
New England Arab American Organization	$115,860	7	9%
Wabanaki Cultural Preservation Coalition	$115,360	5	8%
Prosperityme	$109,022	4	3%
Maine Conservation Alliance	$107,500	3	4%
Maine Access Immigrant Network	$107,127	7	6%
Wabanaki Womens Coalition Inc	$105,460	4	13%
Land in Common Inc	$105,000	2	8%
Wabanaki Alliance	$100,000	2	13%
Food for All Services	$100,000	2	n/a
Sustainable Livelihoods Relief Organization	$97,860	6	37%
Khmer Maine	$95,000	2	28%
United Youth Empowerment Services	$93,480	5	n/a
Furniture Friends	$88,360	4	15%
Cooperative Development Institute Inc	$87,500	4	1%
Hope Acts	$85,000	5	3%
Wounded Healers International Inc	$85,000	2	48%
SPACE Gallery	$81,220	4	3%
Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc	$81,000	4	1%
Whyhunger Inc	$75,360	3	0%
Healthy Acadia	$75,000	2	1%
Bomazeen Land Trust	$75,000	1	11%
Wabanaki Youth in Science Inc	$75,000	1	8%
Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services	$71,500	4	2%
Creative Portland Corporation	$70,660	5	9%
Abbe Museum	$70,360	4	4%
Niweskok	$70,000	2	5%
Rwandese Community Association of Maine	$67,916	5	n/a
Maine Equal Justice Partners	$67,813	4	1%
Preble Street	$66,560	5	0%
Immigrant Resource Center of Maine	$60,000	3	1%
Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship	$60,000	2	1%
Empowered Immigrant Women Unite	$55,000	1	28%
Early Math and Language Initiative	$55,000	1	66%
Tree Street Youth Inc	$51,360	4	2%
Survivor Speak	$50,860	5	n/a
Four Directions Development Corporation	$45,860	4	1%
Youth-Led Justice	$45,000	1	8%
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting	$45,000	1	4%
Black Owned Maine	$45,000	1	n/a
Penobscot Indian Nation	$45,000	1	n/a
Candid	$45,000	1	0%
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center	$45,000	4	3%
Cumberland County Food Security Council	$45,000	2	5%
Town of Scarborough	$45,000	1	n/a
Democracy Maine	$40,360	2	n/a
University of Maine School of Law Foundation	$40,000	1	3%
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project	$40,000	1	n/a
American Civil Liberties Union of Maine	$40,000	1	11%
City of Portland	$38,800	1	n/a
American Friends Service Committee	$37,360	2	n/a
Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House	$35,360	2	8%
Action for Life	$35,000	2	n/a
Cross Cultural Community Services	$32,500	3	7%
Raise-Op Housing Cooperative	$30,360	1	6%
Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc	$30,000	1	1%
Cultivating Balance Inc	$30,000	1	36%
Alpha Legal Foundation	$30,000	1	20%
Moving Forward for Maine Reentry Sisters Corporation	$30,000	1	14%
Maine Soccer Developoment	$30,000	1	n/a
Ak Health and Social Services	$27,500	2	5%
Maine Citizens for Clean Elections	$27,500	3	3%
Operation Breaking Stereotypes	$25,860	3	n/a
Somali Community Center of Maine	$25,860	3	n/a
United Somali Women of Maine	$25,000	1	n/a
University of Southern Maine Foundation	$25,000	2	0%
Maine Center for Economic Policy	$25,000	1	2%
Greater Portland Family Promise	$25,000	1	2%
Maine Humane	$24,493	3	98%
EqualityMaine Foundation	$24,027	3	2%
Maine Animal Coalition	$22,985	3	n/a
South Sudanese Community	$22,860	2	n/a
Community Concepts Inc	$21,000	2	0%
Gedakina Inc	$20,500	2	3%
Multicultural Community and Family Support Services	$20,135	2	n/a
Community Organizing Alliance	$20,000	1	n/a
Out in the Open Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Justme for Justus	$20,000	1	7%
Living With Peace	$20,000	1	n/a
Institute for Policy Studies	$20,000	1	0%
Golden Opportunity	$18,125	1	n/a
Maine Audubon Society	$17,957	2	0%
Foundation for Portland Public Schools	$17,000	2	1%
Catholic Charities Maine	$15,000	1	0%
Sunrise County Economic Council	$15,000	1	0%
York County Community Action Corporation	$15,000	1	0%
Maine Council on Aging	$14,500	1	1%
Hardy Girls Healthy Women Inc	$13,146	2	3%
Maine Coalition to End Domestic	$12,679	2	n/a
Maine Hospice Council & Center for End-Of-Life Care	$12,674	2	7%
Maine People's Resource Center	$12,500	1	1%
Bicycle Coalition of Maine	$12,288	2	1%
Resist Inc	$12,000	1	0%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc	$11,973	2	0%
Maine Farmland Trust	$11,775	2	0%
Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault	$11,139	2	0%
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association	$11,121	2	0%
Atlantic Black Box	$10,375	1	5%
Afghan Community of Maine	$10,000	1	10%
One Longfellow Square	$10,000	1	1%
Maine Challenge Productions Inc	$10,000	1	24%
Women United Around the World	$10,000	1	n/a
United Way of Kennebec Valley	$10,000	1	1%
Maine Women's Lobby Education Fund	$6,843	1	2%
Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine	$6,307	1	1%
Friends of Casco Bay	$5,818	1	0%
Maine Womens Fund	$5,691	1	n/a
Maine Labor Group on Health	$5,516	1	n/a
Viles Arboretum	$5,166	1	1%
Maine Alliance for Arts Education	$5,087	1	13%
Disability Rights Maine	$5,012	1	0%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.

Maine Initiativesinc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 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 102.

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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 IncME133.9× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Onion Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · United Way Inc · Quimby Family Foundation · Maine Humanities Council · Maine Womens Fund · Haymarket People's Fund Inc

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 Initiativesinc

How much does Maine Initiativesinc give?: Maine Initiativesinc reported 51 itemized grants totaling $1,839,540, out of $1,916,165 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Maine Initiativesinc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (22%), Human Services (22%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Maine Initiativesinc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition ($1.0M), Resources for Organizing and Social Change ($743k), Southern Maine Workers Center ($328k).
Does Maine Initiativesinc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Initiativesinc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, Good Shepherd Food Bank.
Where is Maine Initiativesinc based?: Maine Initiativesinc is based in ME.