· Private foundation
The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $119k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF KISIMANI SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT | $35,000 |
| SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| LINCOLN ACADEMY | $14,000 |
| HEALTHY KIDS | $10,000 |
| CHIP INC | $10,000 |
| CDA COLLABORATIVE LEARNING | $10,000 |
| PHANTOM THEATER | $7,500 |
| QUILLART CENTRO CULTURAL DE ARTE | $5,000 |
| YESTERMORROW | $4,000 |
| AIO FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| HEARTY ROOTS | $2,500 |
| STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC | $2,000 |
| PEACE GALLERY | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in ME; by stated purpose, 58%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALINCOLN ACADEMY2× · 2024–2025 · $24k · revenue +13%
- YIYestermorrow Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +31%
- SSSTEPPING STONE HOUSING INC3× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +218%
Funded once
- HUHENRY UIHLEIN II AND MILDRED Aone grant, 2024 · $50k
- CLCENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY YMCAone grant, 2024 · $15k
- BDBLUE DRAGON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION USAone grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue +8%
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 create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
The organization advocates for the creation and preservation of affordable housing so all people in maine have a place to call home.
To build lasting prosperity without sacrificing the quality of life that defines maine.
To provide quality affordable housing
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.
Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
The kennebec land trust (klt) works cooperatively with landowners and communities to conserve the forests, lakes, streams, wetlands, fields, and wildlife that help define central maine. klt protects and stewards land permanently, offers…
We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 37 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 CAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CDA COLLABORATIVE LEARNING PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HEARTY ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Yestermorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds BLUE DRAGON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds Medical Care Development Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Huts & Trails ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST HUMANE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THE HASSAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INN ALONG THE WAY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY FOUNDATION OF DAMARISCOTTA - NEWCASTLE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Esta Kramer Foundation Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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