Maine · Private foundation
Pond Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $468k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 49
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Pond Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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 | $468k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $498k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $561k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $313k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $331k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $329k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine Behavioral Healthcare | $434,500 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Southern Maine Foundation | $235,304 | 6 | 1% |
| Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine | $81,200 | 5 | 1% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $72,000 | 6 | 0% |
| MaineHealth | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Arkansas Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Preble Street | $47,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Maine Needs Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Spurwink Services Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Understanding Our Differences Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pond Family 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 · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Roy a Hunt Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Pond Family Foundation
- How much does Pond Family Foundation give?
- Pond Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $467,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Pond Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (22%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Pond Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Maine Behavioral Healthcare ($435k), University of Southern Maine Foundation ($235k), Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine ($81k).
- Does Pond Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pond Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pond Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation, John T Gorman Foundation.
- Where is Pond Family Foundation based?
- Pond Family Foundation is based in ME.
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