· Private foundation
Melmac Education 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k140 grants · $280k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $389k
- $250k+2 grants · $828k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENERATION US | $421,681 |
| GENERATION US | $406,598 |
| GENERATION US | $174,253 |
| JOBS FOR MAINE'S GRADUATES | $58,000 |
| COLLEGE BOARD | $56,938 |
| EDUCATE MAINE | $50,000 |
| EDUCATE MAINE | $50,000 |
| GENERATION US | $40,500 |
| EDUCATE MAINE | $39,000 |
| CONY HIGH SCHOOL | $15,273 |
| EDUCATE MAINE | $10,000 |
| EDUCATE MAINE | $3,000 |
| BRUNSWICK HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| GRAY-NEW GLOUCESTER HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| LAKE REGION HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
311 repeat relationships: 133 still active in FY2025, 178 since wound down; 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GUGeneration US7× · 2018–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +263% · 37% of their budget
- JFJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +107%
- CBCollege Board9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $659k
- KVKENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $27k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTONone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
To provide a program for young men in a unique, one-year postgraduate environment to prepare for the rigors of college and beyond.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…
Concord Christian Academy is a life preparatory educational institution that works in harmony with families to promote the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and creative growth of students, empowering them to live for the glory…
Groton School's mission is to inspire lives of character, scholarship, leadership, and service within a diverse, inclusive, and close-knit community.
Hca is a public charter school offering rigorous, personalized, project- based education to maine students in grades 5-12.
Private School
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
Portsmouth christian academy exists to honor god joyfully by inspiring students to maximize their god-given potential.
The baxter academies of maine is an educational institution that established and operates public charter schools in maine.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 381 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Full Plates Full Potential · Oak Grove School · Harold Alfond Foundation · Reny Charitable Foundation · Frederic E Skillings Trust Uw · Fidelity Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Cochran Gifford a Tr Uind · Crockett Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melmac Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melmac Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- Western New England University: 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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