Maine · Private foundation
The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $53k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $671k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 25 | $53k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $49k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $45k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $48k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $50k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $42k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $42k | 35% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $38k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Readfield United Methodist Church | $40,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Readfield Union Meeting House Co | $35,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency | $21,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Family Violence Project | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Spectrum Generations | $19,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Protectors of Animal Life Society | $12,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Kennebec Valley Humane Society | $11,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Humane Society Waterville Area | $11,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Childrens Center | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Kennebec Valley YMCA | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Readfield United Methodist Church | $40,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Readfield Union Meeting House Co | $35,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency | $21,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Family Violence Project | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Spectrum Generations | $19,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Protectors of Animal Life Society | $12,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Kennebec Valley Humane Society | $11,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Humane Society Waterville Area | $11,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Childrens Center | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Kennebec Valley YMCA | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Kennebec Valley Mental Health Cente D/B/A Kennebec Behavioral Health | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Maine Children's Trust | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mainegenral Medical Center | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Lithgow Library | $4,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Ithaca College | $4,167 | 2 | 0% |
| Literacy Volunteers of Kennebec | $4,000 | 4 | 1% |
| University of Rochester | $3,917 | 3 | 0% |
| Champlain College Incorporated | $3,917 | 3 | 0% |
| Waterville Public Library | $3,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Gordon College | $1,167 | 1 | 0% |
| The Kennebec Land Trust | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Viles Arboretum | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($134k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund 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: Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sheaffer Lewis J Community Pfdn · Helen W Fuller Testamentary Trust · Elsie & William Viles Foundation · Waterville Area Women's Club · Es & Mj Mayer Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Helen and George Ladd Charitable 0720995 Charitable Corporation #0720995 · United Way of Kennebec Valley · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation
How this is measured
About The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund
- How much does The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund give?
- The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund reported 25 grants totaling $52,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Health (21%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Readfield United Methodist Church ($40k), Readfield Union Meeting House Co ($35k), Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency ($21k).
- Does The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Sheaffer Lewis J Community Pfdn.
- Where is The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund based?
- The Bracy Memorial Trust Fund is based in ME.
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