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Maine Technology Institute
The Institute, through a public and private partnership, shall encourage, promote, stimulate and support research and development activity leading to the commercialization of new products and services in Maine's technology-intensive industrial sectors to enhance the competitive position of those sectors and increase the likelihood that…
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k81 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k83 grants · $8.3M
- $250k+23 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Somerset Economic Development Corporation | $3,000,000 |
| Stratton Lumber Inc | $990,000 |
| Hancock Lumber Company Inc | $990,000 |
| Roux Institute | $560,000 |
| EME Biofuels LLC | $500,000 |
| Tanbark Molded Fiber Products Inc | $499,317 |
| Sappi North America Inc | $495,000 |
| Robbins Lumber East Baldwin LLC | $495,000 |
| Godfrey Forest Arizona LLC | $490,000 |
| T&D Wood Energy LLC | $450,000 |
| Maine Space Corporation | $426,413 |
| OPAL Build LLC (dba NotchSB) | $339,617 |
| Maine Plywood USA | $273,285 |
| Nautical Farms LLC | $255,000 |
| Maine Canned Fish | $250,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $565k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Maine Technology Institute’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in ME; by stated purpose, 85%.
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 +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
257 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2025, 186 since wound down; 122 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TJTHE JACKSON LABORATORY5× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +74%
- DIDOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +34% · 55% of their budget
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +32%
Funded once
- VAVerso Androscoggin LLCone grant, 2019 · $4.0M
- RSReady Seafood Coone grant, 2019 · $2.3M
- FSFairchild Semiconductor Corpone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
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.
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
Maine MEP's mission is to facilitate economic development by providing the necessary services to Maine's small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises (SMES) to enable them to be resilient and thrive in the ever-changing market…
The mission of the Maine Development Foundation is to foster sustainable, long-term economic growth for Maine. Its programs stimulate new ideas, help develop Maine's leaders, and provide common ground for solving problems and advancing…
Enhance the business climate, the quality of life, and economic wellbeing of the businesses and people of maine
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
Support and promote the University of Maine Graduate & Professional Center ("Maine Center") of the University of Maine System through fundraising, marketing, and engagement with Maine enterprises and employers to identify and address…
The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…
The Institute, through a public and private partnership, shall encourage, promote, stimulate and support research and development activity leading to the commercialization of new products and services in Maine's technology-intensive…
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
How this is measured
51 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. 51 of the 889 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Maine International Trade Center · Eastern Maine Development Corporation · Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy · Central Maine Growth Council · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Center for Enterprise Development Dba Maine Center for Entrepreneurs · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · The Casco Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Food Export USA - Northeast
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maine Technology Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Technology Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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