Maine · Private foundation
The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $29k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $203k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 7 | $29k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $25k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $35k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $35k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $43k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $56k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $50k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $65k | 73% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland Public Library | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Gardiner Main Street | $29,500 | 7 | 10% |
| Boys&Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Midcoast Humane | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kennebec Valley YMCA | $23,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Maine Association of Nonprofits | $22,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Kennebec Valley Mental Health Cente D/B/A Kennebec Behavioral Health | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Area Interfaith Outreach | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Southern Kennebec Child Development | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Women for Healthy Rural Living | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bank of Maine Charitable 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 · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Reny Charitable Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust
How this is measured
Compare The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation give?
- The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $29,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (16%), Education (14%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Portland Public Library ($30k), Gardiner Main Street ($30k), Boys&Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley ($25k).
- Does The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation, Onion Foundation.
- Where is The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation based?
- The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundation is based in ME.
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