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Narragansett Number One Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$385k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
49
Grants FY2025
46
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,220
Largest grant, FY2025
$36,841
Organizations funded a year
40 to 56
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$5.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Narragansett Number One Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving49$385k24%
FY202446$412k28%
FY202350$378k30%
FY202247$338k28%
FY202149$439k51%
FY202040$279k33%
FY201948$372k44%
FY201856$395k59%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$403kFood & Nutrition$400kArts & Culture$362kHuman Services$361kAnimals$361kHousing & Shelter$354kPublic Benefit$202kEnvironment$200kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Town of Buxton$125,9539n/a
Homeworthy$115,00081%
Milestone Recovery$72,50060%
Friends of Baxter State Park$70,00073%
Lake Region Senior Service Inc$69,000627%
Town of Limington$65,1996n/a
My Place Teen Center Inc$63,00053%
Elder Abuse Institute of Maine$62,50073%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$50,00050%
Hospice of Southern Maine$49,50050%
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All grantees of Narragansett Number One Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Town of Buxton$125,9539n/a
Homeworthy$115,00081%
Milestone Recovery$72,50060%
Friends of Baxter State Park$70,00073%
Lake Region Senior Service Inc$69,000627%
Town of Limington$65,1996n/a
My Place Teen Center Inc$63,00053%
Elder Abuse Institute of Maine$62,50073%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$50,00050%
Hospice of Southern Maine$49,50050%
Friendship House$47,79295%
Cottontail Cottage Farm Sanctuary$47,50057%
Caring Unlimited$40,00040%
Kids Free to Grow$35,30244%
Preble Street$35,00030%
Hollis Center Library Association$33,5007n/a
Youth Full Maine$32,50037%
Dorcas Society of Hollis & Buxton$32,3883n/a
Buxton-Hollis Historical Society$31,6003n/a
Families First Community Center$30,00034%
Wayside Food Programs$30,00041%
Esther Residence Inc$27,50026%
The Saco River Theatre$27,50052%
Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine$26,28250%
Ryan Home Project$25,000126%
Southern Maine Agency on Aging$25,00050%
Marine Mammals of Maine$25,00042%
Through These Doors$25,00030%
In-A-Pinch Non-Food Pantry$24,5003n/a
Trinity Jubilee Center Inc$24,00032%
Eastern Area Agency on Aging$23,98830%
Chesterville Center Union Meeting House Inc$23,0002n/a
Friends of Casco Bay$23,00080%
Responsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills Inc$22,59732%
Junior Achievement of Maine Inc$22,50031%
Greater Androscoggin Humane Society$22,10080%
United Way of Tri Vally Area$20,00023%
Welcome to Housing Home Goods Bank$20,0001n/a
Saco Food Pantry$20,000113%
The Family Restored$20,00022%
Linn County Animal Rescue$20,000116%
Maine Appalachian Trail Club$20,00022%
Saco River Wildlife Center$20,000115%
Lake Stewards of Maine - Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program$20,00022%
Hospice Help Foundation$20,00024%
Ervin a Center Memorial Clinic$20,0001n/a
Augusta Teen Center of the Boys & Girls Club$18,00014%
Lamb House$18,0003n/a
New Beginnings$17,50021%
Tear Cap Workshops$16,000218%
Sanford-Springvale Mousam Way Land Trust$15,9922n/a
Tree Street Youth Inc$15,00020%
Acadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital$15,00010%
The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine$15,00033%
The Center for Grieving Children$15,00021%
Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc$15,00010%
Animal Welfare Society Inc$15,00020%
Quoddy Tides Foundation$14,50051%
Riding to the Top$14,00050%
Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals$13,50020%
Schoolhouse Arts Center$13,44216%
Pine Tree Hospice$13,22917%
Buxton Community Cupboard$12,0001n/a
Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center$12,0002n/a
Operation Warm Inc$11,00020%
Maine Academy of Modern Music$11,00022%
Maine Rivers$10,0001n/a
Darrowby Farm Sanctuary$10,00012%
Francis Small Heritage Trust Inc$10,0002n/a
Bangor Humane Society$10,00020%
Futures for Standardbreds$10,0001n/a
Virginia Project Inc Maine's First Ship$10,00015%
Homeless Services of Aroostook Inc$10,00021%
VNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice$10,00010%
Saco River Community Television$10,00015%
Boston Firefighters Burn Fnd Inc$10,0001n/a
Maine Coast Fishermens Assn$10,00010%
Peregrine Corporation$10,00020%
Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry$10,00012%
Herring Gut Learning Center$10,00013%
Learningworks$10,00020%
Range Light Keepers$10,0001n/a
Service Dog Strong$10,0001n/a
Boothbay Region Housing Trust$10,00019%
Cheverus High School$10,0001n/a
The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies$10,00014%
Habitat for Humanity York County Maine$10,00011%
Waterville Area Soup Kitchen$10,00013%
The Maine Girls Academy$10,0001n/a
York Hospital$10,0001n/a
Children's Discovery Museum$10,00023%
Dover Foxcroft Area Food Cupboard$10,0001n/a
Cobscook Bay Resource Center Inc$10,000118%
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland$10,00010%
Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation$9,97512%
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust$9,9231n/a
The Curran Homestead$9,88615%
Friends of Parsonsfield Seminary$9,7501n/a
Maine Farmland Trust$9,39720%
Whiska House$9,00044%
Oxford Hills School District$8,0001n/a
Friends of Feral Felines$8,000111%
PAWS Animal Adoption Center$7,50021%
Limington Historical Society Inc$7,1902n/a
Biddeford Food Pantry$7,00018%
Maine Grange Foundation Inc$6,9502n/a
Healthy Kids a Family Resource Network$6,5541n/a
My Friend's Place$6,5001n/a
Town of Windham$6,3051n/a
Baldwin Historical Society Inc$6,0001n/a
North Atlantic Arts Alliance$6,0001n/a
Brick Store Museum Inc$5,80030%
Safe Voices$5,00010%
Elder Grey Meeting House Cemetery Association$5,0001n/a
Franco-American Heritage Center$5,00011%
Maine Wildlife Rehabilitation$5,00016%
Heart of Maine Resource Center$5,0001n/a
Biddeford Cultural and Heritage Center$5,0001n/a
Town of Gorham$5,0001n/a
Kennebec Valley Humane Society$5,00011%
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital$5,00010%
Eastern Trail Alliance$5,0001n/a
Maine Paws for Veterans Inc$5,00012%
Midcoast Humane$5,00010%
Maine Wood Banks$5,00014%
Hatch Community Youth Fund Inc$5,00016%
Vet to Vet Maine Inc$5,00015%
Day One$5,00010%
Bangor Young Men's Christian Association$5,00010%
Washburn-Norlands Foundation Inc Washburn-Norlands Living History Center$5,00012%
Portland School of Ballet$4,00011%
Apex Youth Connection$3,90311%
The Summer Camp Inc$3,20011%
Kennebec Valley YMCA$3,00010%
Baptist School of Christian Training$3,00012%
Scribners Mill Preservation Inc$2,60017%
Maine Lost Dog Recovery$2,0401n/a
Richville Library Inc$2,0001n/a
Triangle Club Inc$1,50011%
Lisbon Emergency Inc$1,48210%
The Susan L Curtis Foundation$1,20010%
The Northern Lighthouse Inc$1,07010%
Age Friendly Saco$30010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($808k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Narragansett Number One Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHomeworthy: $115,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMilestone Recovery: $72,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Baxter State Park: $70,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetLake Region Senior Service Inc: $69,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $63,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetElder Abuse Institute of Maine: $62,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $49,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship House: $47,792 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetCottontail Cottage Farm Sanctuary: $47,500 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetCaring Unlimited: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKids Free to Grow: $35,302 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetPreble Street: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Full Maine: $32,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetFamilies First Community Center: $30,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEsther Residence Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetThe Saco River Theatre: $27,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $26,282 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRyan Home Project: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Mammals of Maine: $25,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThrough These Doors: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEastern Area Agency on Aging: $23,988 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Casco Bay: $23,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetResponsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills Inc: $22,597 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Maine Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGreater Androscoggin Humane Society: $22,100 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Tri Vally Area: $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSaco Food Pantry: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Family Restored: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLinn County Animal Rescue: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMaine Appalachian Trail Club: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSaco River Wildlife Center: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetLake Stewards of Maine - Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHospice Help Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetAugusta Teen Center of the Boys & Girls Club: $18,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNew Beginnings: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTear Cap Workshops: $16,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTree Street Youth Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chaplaincy Institute of Maine: $15,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetThe Center for Grieving Children: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Welfare Society Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQuoddy Tides Foundation: $14,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRiding to the Top: $14,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 103.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME129.9× affinity98 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Narragansett Number One Foundation

How much does Narragansett Number One Foundation give?
Narragansett Number One Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $385,453 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Narragansett Number One Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (12%), Food & Nutrition (12%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Narragansett Number One Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Town of Buxton ($126k), Homeworthy ($115k), Milestone Recovery ($73k).
Does Narragansett Number One Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Narragansett Number One Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Narragansett Number One Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson, Fisher Charitable Foundation.
Where is Narragansett Number One Foundation based?
Narragansett Number One Foundation is based in ME.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 192 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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