Maine · Private foundation
Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $25k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $290k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $55k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $21k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $17k | 77% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $9k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $1k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Climate to Thrive | $8,285 | 6 | 1% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Maine People's Resource Center | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Island Readers & Writers an Initiative for Maine Children | $3,589 | 6 | 0% |
| Camp Beech Cliff | $3,089 | 5 | 0% |
| Unicorn Riot | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Open Table Mdi | $2,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Healthy Acadia | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Abbe Museum | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Climate to Thrive | $8,285 | 6 | 1% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Maine People's Resource Center | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Island Readers & Writers an Initiative for Maine Children | $3,589 | 6 | 0% |
| Camp Beech Cliff | $3,089 | 5 | 0% |
| Unicorn Riot | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Open Table Mdi | $2,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Healthy Acadia | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Abbe Museum | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Indigo Arts Alliance | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| In Her Presence | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| EqualityMaine Foundation | $1,553 | 1 | 0% |
| Alliance for Global Justice Corp | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Community School of Mount Desert | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston Ujima Project Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Center for Grieving Children | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation 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 · Maine Initiativesinc · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Impactassetsinc · Devonwood Foundation 009606-007 · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Colket Family Foundation · Maine Humanities Council · Florence V Burden Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation
- How much does Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation give?
- Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (38%), Civil Rights (16%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: A Climate to Thrive ($8k), NEO Philanthropy Inc ($7k), Maine People's Resource Center ($5k).
- Does Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, Maine Initiativesinc.
- Where is Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation based?
- Margaret Ann Grinnell Charitable Foundation is based in ME.
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