Maine · Private foundation
Protein 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 62
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Protein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 43 | $1.4M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $1.0M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $1.3M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $1.3M | 65% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.7M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $574k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Root Cellar | $320,000 | 5 | 8% |
| House of Hope | $280,000 | 3 | 48% |
| Straight Ahead Ministries INC | $221,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Emmaus Teams | $218,000 | 2 | 74% |
| Hagar's Sisters Inc | $205,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Paul Carlson Medical Program Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Elevate New England Inc | $180,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Square Up for Others Inc | $170,000 | 4 | 71% |
| Hope Haitian Ministries | $141,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Isaiah 61 Cafe | $130,000 | 5 | 9% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Protein Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Pennies From Heaven Foundation · The Church Home Society Inc · Imago Dei Fund · Boston Baptist Social Union · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
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About Protein Foundation
- How much does Protein Foundation give?
- Protein Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $1,375,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 62 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Protein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Religion (19%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are Protein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Root Cellar ($320k), House of Hope ($280k), Straight Ahead Ministries INC ($221k).
- Does Protein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Protein 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 Protein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Muskegon County, Pennies From Heaven Foundation, The Church Home Society Inc.
- Where is Protein Foundation based?
- Protein Foundation is based in ME.
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