Maine · Public charity
Maine Womens Fund
The maine women's fund makes bold investments that transform the lives of maine women and girls by incubating and investing in nonprofit organizations, partnering with grantees, and connecting people and organizations making social change.
- $221k
- Granted FY2021
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2021
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2021
- $211k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2021
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $61,408
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 1
- Total assets, FY2021
- $3.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 19% of the organizations Maine Womens Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 16 | $211k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $242k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $133k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $136k | 79% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $85k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc | $113,408 | 2 | 1% |
| Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Ctr | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| University of Maine System Inc | $39,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence | $38,894 | 2 | 0% |
| YWCA Central Maine | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Four Directions Development Corporation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Artvan | $29,025 | 4 | 6% |
| A Company of Girls | $28,449 | 3 | 7% |
| Tree Street Youth Inc | $26,300 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 38 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maine Womens Fund supplied at peak.
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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 · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Maine Initiativesinc · Onion Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · United Way Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Maine Womens Fund
- How much does Maine Womens Fund give?
- Maine Womens Fund reported 16 itemized grants totaling $210,908, out of $220,908 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Maine Womens Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Community Improvement (19%), Human Services (15%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Maine Womens Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc ($113k), Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Ctr ($40k), University of Maine System Inc ($39k).
- Does Maine Womens Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maine Womens Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, John T Gorman Foundation.
- Where is Maine Womens Fund based?
- Maine Womens Fund is based in ME.
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