Massachusetts · Private foundation
Phineas W Sprague Memorial 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.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $43,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 48
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 52 | $225k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $215k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $193k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $194k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $243k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $179k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| MaineHealth | $138,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $87,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The American Chestnut Foundation | $42,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc | $41,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Riding to the Top | $34,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Ketcha Outdoors | $34,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wayfinder Schools | $33,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Maine Preservation | $30,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Cape Elizabeth Land Trust | $26,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Farms for Food Equity | $24,500 | 3 | 4% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($297k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation
- How much does Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation give?
- Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 48 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Arts & Culture (18%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: MaineHealth ($138k), Good Shepherd Food Bank ($88k), The American Chestnut Foundation ($43k).
- Does Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Phineas W Sprague Memorial 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 Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Davis Family Foundation, Sam L Cohen Foundation.
- Where is Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation based?
- Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation is based in MA.
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