Maine · Private foundation
The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $220k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k 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 | 15 | $220k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $300k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $51k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $30k | 92% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $1k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area New Mainers Project | $75,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Cda Collaborative Learning Projects Inc | $42,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Chip Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Lincoln Academy | $24,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hearty Roots Inc | $23,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Yestermorrow Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Stepping Stone Housing Inc | $16,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Phantom Theater Inc | $15,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Preble Street | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blue Dragon Children's Foundation USA | $14,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area New Mainers Project | $75,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Cda Collaborative Learning Projects Inc | $42,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Chip Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Lincoln Academy | $24,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hearty Roots Inc | $23,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Yestermorrow Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Stepping Stone Housing Inc | $16,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Phantom Theater Inc | $15,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Preble Street | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blue Dragon Children's Foundation USA | $14,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Medical Care Development Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Peace Gallery | $10,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Maine Huts & Trails | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Midcoast Humane | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Hassan Foundation | $1,545 | 1 | 0% |
| Inn Along the Way | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Rotary Foundation of Damariscotta - Newcastle | $1,265 | 1 | 2% |
| Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc | $618 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust 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 · Reny Charitable Foundation · Burns Family Foundation Inc · Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Marjorie C Bailey Charitable Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust
- How much does The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust give?
- The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $220,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Arts & Culture (19%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Capital Area New Mainers Project ($75k), Cda Collaborative Learning Projects Inc ($43k), Chip Inc ($40k).
- Does The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Reny Charitable Foundation, Burns Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust based?
- The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust is based in ME.
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