· Private foundation
The Edward Marthann Samek Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUCKNELL FUND | $18,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC | $10,250 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $10,000 |
| TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL | $10,000 |
| STRAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS - RAISE THE ROOF CANPAIGN | $5,000 |
| FREDERIC GUNN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GILLEY MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| THE FUND FOR PARK AVENUE TREE LIGHTING | $2,000 |
| HARBOR HOUSE | $1,050 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $1,000 |
| MDI HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MDI NURSING ASSOCIATION | $700 |
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 (FY22–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +38% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC7× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +45%- TFTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL7× · 2018–2024 · $76k · revenue +210%
Bucknell University5× · 2017–2021 · $49k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- NNCPAone grant, 2017 · $6k
- NPNATIONAL PARK CONSERVATIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
- COCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC - EVENT EXPENSESone grant, 2022 · $2k
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 connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
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…
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 86 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 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Harbor House Community Service Center ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE WARDLAW-HARTRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
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 · Colket Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Newtmont Foundation · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Florence V Burden Foundation · The Ausolus Trust · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Edward C Johnson Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Edward Marthann Samek Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward Marthann Samek Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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