· Private foundation
The Aldermere 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $67k
- $250k+1 grant · $304k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $304,448 |
| COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | $12,000 |
| MAINE FARMLAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| HURRICAINE ISLAND CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND LEADERSHIP | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL TEACHING AND LEARNING | $10,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE | $10,000 |
| MIDCOAST CONSERVANCY | $8,000 |
| MAINE CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| PALAVER STRINGS | $7,000 |
| WAYFINDER SCHOOLS | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY | $5,000 |
| GEORGES RIVER LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| MERRYSPRING NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHEWONKI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Maine Coast Heritage Trust9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +106%- NRNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +17%
- CMCoastal Mountains Land Trust9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CLCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MFMAINE FIBERARTSone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -19%
- RLROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -87%
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 conserve for the public benefit natural habitat, scenic beauty, and working land of the Boothbay region of Maine by providing stewardship, public access, and environmental programs.
Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Frenchman Bay Conservancy protects and cares for our local lands and waters for the benefit of communities and nature.
Maine Rivers is a statewide advocacy organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine's river systems. We support and direct efforts to conserve and improve the health of Maine's rivers and…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…
The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…
The Cape Elizabeth Land Trust permanently conserves and provides stewardship for lands and easements located in Cape Elizabeth, Maine
To work collectively in maine to create mutually beneficial relationships with the earth, communities, and people through the conservation movement.
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 29 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 Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Midcoast Conservancy ↗
- Who funds MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PALAVER STRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL TEACHING DBA CETL ↗
- Who funds LOBSTER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BROADREACH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Georges River Land Trust ↗
- Who funds BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE FIBERARTS ↗
- Who funds MAINE BOYS TO MEN ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Homeworthy ↗
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 · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Tr Ua the Camden Foundation · Otter Island Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Thorne Cox Family Foundation · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · John Sage Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Aldermere Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aldermere Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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