· Private foundation
Portland Provident Association
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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAYSIDE SOUP KITCHEN | $7,000 |
| PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC | $7,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE (REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT) | $7,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| FURNITURE FRIENDS | $4,500 |
| UNITED WAYKEEP ME WARM | $4,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $4,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH JUBILEE CENTER | $3,500 |
| THROUGH THESE DOORS | $3,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $3,000 |
| GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE | $3,000 |
| SACRED HEART- ST DOMINIC'S FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| FAMILY SHELTER | $3,000 |
| ST LUKE'S FOOD PANTRY | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
50 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +75%
- TTTHROUGH THESE DOORS5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +19%
- FFFURNITURE FRIENDS5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MAINEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CCCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTERone grant, 2021 · $3k
- BFBAPTIST FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
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…
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
Gateway Community Service seeks to encourage, support and build healthy connections with oneself and others in order to promote vibrancy and well-being, along with welcoming communities where all people feel accepted, valued and have a…
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.
To maintain and operate the First Parish Church in Portland, ME.
The mission of The Genesis Fund is to bring together resources to create housing and other economic and social opportunities for underserved people and communities throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
Hope Acts offers asylum seekers access to housing and basic needs, assistance in navigating complex immigration processes, and resources for learning English to help them successfully transition to a new life in Maine.
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 55 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 The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds THROUGH THESE DOORS ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds St Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
- Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Portland Public Schools ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE ROOT CELLAR ↗
- Who funds Ketcha Outdoors ↗
- Who funds The Iris Network ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNINGWORKS ↗
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 · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Female Samaritan Association · The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Payson · Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Portland Provident Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Portland Provident Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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