· Private foundation
Messier-Costain 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID COAST HOSPITAL | $13,048 |
| ALL SAINTS PARISH | $10,000 |
| TEDFORD HOUSING | $8,500 |
| OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC | $8,300 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $7,000 |
| BATH AREA FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE | $5,000 |
| MID-COAST HUNGER PREVENTION PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $5,000 |
| PINE TREE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OHOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +269%
- THTEDFORD HOUSING5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +156%
- BABATH AREA FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +2%
Funded once
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.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
To provide quality affordable housing
To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.
Providing Adult, children, and family mental health and social services. Providing home health and hospice services.
Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…
Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.
Provide temporary housing and counseling services for the homeless of northern maine
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
The organization advocates for the creation and preservation of affordable housing so all people in maine have a place to call home.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 12 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
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.
- Who funds Mid Coast Hospital ↗
- Who funds OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TEDFORD HOUSING ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
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 · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Tabell Family Foundation · The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Messier-Costain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Messier-Costain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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