Maine · Private foundation
The Oldenburg Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $69k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 17
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $851k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Oldenburg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 17 | $69k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $71k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $33k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penobscot Theatre Company | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Dunstable Rural Land Trust | $25,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Bangor Young Men's Christian Association | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Great Pond Mountain Conservation Tr | $22,000 | 4 | 1% |
| River City Athletics | $17,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Bangor Land Trust | $14,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Alamoosook Lake Association | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Literacy Volunteers of Bangor | $8,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Orono Land Trust | $8,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penobscot Theatre Company | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Dunstable Rural Land Trust | $25,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Bangor Young Men's Christian Association | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Great Pond Mountain Conservation Tr | $22,000 | 4 | 1% |
| River City Athletics | $17,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Bangor Land Trust | $14,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Alamoosook Lake Association | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Literacy Volunteers of Bangor | $8,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Orono Land Trust | $8,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bangor Public Library | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Good Samaritan Agency | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Ctr | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| WERE ONE WILMINGTON INC Formerly Women of Wilmington | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wilmington Community Fund Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Heart of Maine United Way | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Wilmington Memorial Library | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Oldenburg Family 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 · Leonard and Renee Minsky Charitable Trst · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The C Walder Parke Family Foundation · Harnum Family Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Oldenburg Family Foundation
- How much does The Oldenburg Family Foundation give?
- The Oldenburg Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $69,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Oldenburg Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (37%), Arts & Culture (21%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are The Oldenburg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Penobscot Theatre Company ($40k), Dunstable Rural Land Trust ($25k), Bangor Young Men's Christian Association ($22k).
- Does The Oldenburg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Oldenburg Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Oldenburg Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Leonard and Renee Minsky Charitable Trst, Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Oldenburg Family Foundation based?
- The Oldenburg Family Foundation is based in ME.
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