Maine · Public charity
Maine Justice Foundation
The mission of the MAINE JUSTICE FOUNDATION is to sustain, promote, and partner with legal aid providers and social justice organizations to inspire and support fairness and justice in maine.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,205,252
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Maine Justice Foundation 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; $908k 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 | $3.8M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $3.0M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $1.8M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $1.6M | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc | $6,775,810 | 9 | 13% |
| Legal Services for Maine Elders Inc | $2,887,950 | 9 | 15% |
| Maine Equal Justice Partners | $2,705,465 | 9 | 20% |
| VLP Inc | $2,083,493 | 2 | 72% |
| Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $2,014,146 | 9 | 12% |
| University of Maine School of Law Foundation | $843,022 | 9 | 18% |
| Maine Inside Out | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ladder to the Moon Network | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| State of Maine | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| OUT Maine | $17,142 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc | $6,775,810 | 9 | 13% |
| Legal Services for Maine Elders Inc | $2,887,950 | 9 | 15% |
| Maine Equal Justice Partners | $2,705,465 | 9 | 20% |
| VLP Inc | $2,083,493 | 2 | 72% |
| Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $2,014,146 | 9 | 12% |
| University of Maine School of Law Foundation | $843,022 | 9 | 18% |
| Maine Inside Out | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ladder to the Moon Network | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| State of Maine | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| OUT Maine | $17,142 | 2 | 1% |
| EqualityMaine Foundation | $17,142 | 2 | 1% |
| Alfond Youth & Community Center | $17,142 | 2 | 0% |
| Maine Transgender Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Association of Social Workers | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Equality Community Center | $7,142 | 1 | n/a |
| Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Ctr | $7,142 | 1 | 0% |
| Nopi Inc | $7,142 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Maine Justice Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · John T Gorman Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Onion Foundation · Maine Womens Fund · The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Gill Foundation
How this is measured
About Maine Justice Foundation
- How much does Maine Justice Foundation give?
- Maine Justice Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $3,832,652 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Maine Justice Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (99%), Civil Rights (1%), Arts & Culture (0%).
- Who are Maine Justice Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc ($6.8M), Legal Services for Maine Elders Inc ($2.9M), Maine Equal Justice Partners ($2.7M).
- Does Maine Justice Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Justice Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, John T Gorman Foundation, Sam L Cohen Foundation.
- Where is Maine Justice Foundation based?
- Maine Justice Foundation is based in ME.
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