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Maine Space Grant Consortium

Our mission is to: improve our affiliates' research infrastructure in areas of mutual interest to NASA and the State of Maine; encourage more students to consider careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); (Continued on Schedule O)(Mission Statement Continued) and enhance NASA's presence throughout the…

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.1M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$21,404
Largest grant, FY2025
$437,433
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$421k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Maine Space Grant Consortium funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$1.1M35%
FY202412$1.3M25%
FY20238$951k25%
FY20228$848k13%
FY20217$635k0%
FY20209$664k11%
FY201910$587k20%
FY201810$754k20%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$6.9MAnimals$501kScience & Tech$211kEmployment$69kEnvironment$48k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Maine System Inc$5,334,7529n/a
College of the Atlantic$576,56290%
Gulf of Maine Research Institute$501,29642%
Maine Community College System$235,7166n/a
University of New England$176,77680%
Bowdoin College$154,22290%
Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine$108,20690%
Northeastern University$98,50530%
MaxIQ Corp$87,4402n/a
Teachers in Space Inc$82,800412%
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All grantees of Maine Space Grant Consortium by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Maine System Inc$5,334,7529n/a
College of the Atlantic$576,56290%
Gulf of Maine Research Institute$501,29642%
Maine Community College System$235,7166n/a
University of New England$176,77680%
Bowdoin College$154,22290%
Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine$108,20690%
Northeastern University$98,50530%
MaxIQ Corp$87,4402n/a
Teachers in Space Inc$82,800412%
VALT Enterprises LLC$57,9012n/a
Maine Development Foundation$45,3401n/a
The President and Trustees of Colby College$41,21410%
Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance$39,46850%
Educate Maine$34,84220%
Unity Environmental University$34,06310%
Maine Maritime Academy$32,2184n/a
Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership$23,84011%
President and Trustees of Bates College$22,49520%
ScanDX LLC$19,7672n/a
Robotics Institute of Maine$17,0001n/a
Wells National Estuarine$14,3101n/a
Fathom Fishing Inc$10,0001n/a
Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park$7,94310%
Institute of Competition Sciences$5,3611n/a
The Challenger Learning Cntr of Me$5,30110%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maine Space Grant Consortium supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCollege of the Atlantic: $576,562 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGulf of Maine Research Institute: $501,296 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of New England: $176,776 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $154,222 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $108,206 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNortheastern University: $98,505 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeachers in Space Inc: $82,800 over 4y, 12% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $41,214 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Mathematics & Science Alliance: $39,468 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEducate Maine: $34,842 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnity Environmental University: $34,063 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Manufacturing Extension Partnership: $23,840 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPresident and Trustees of Bates College: $22,495 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSchoodic Institute at Acadia National Park: $7,943 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Challenger Learning Cntr of Me: $5,301 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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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 15.

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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 Found…Harold Alfond Foundat…Davis Family Foundati…Melmac Education Foun…Onion FoundationBangor Savings Bank F…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Harold Alfond Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Melmac Education Foundation · Onion Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Maine Space Grant Consortium?

Find your warmest path to Maine Space Grant Consortium through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Maine Space Grant Consortium

How much does Maine Space Grant Consortium give?
Maine Space Grant Consortium reported 18 itemized grants totaling $1,122,164, out of $1,304,920 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Maine Space Grant Consortium fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (89%), Animals (6%), Science & Tech (3%).
Who are Maine Space Grant Consortium's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Maine System Inc ($5.3M), College of the Atlantic ($577k), Gulf of Maine Research Institute ($501k).
Does Maine Space Grant Consortium fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Space Grant Consortium?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Harold Alfond Foundation, Davis Family Foundation.
Where is Maine Space Grant Consortium based?
Maine Space Grant Consortium is based in ME.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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