How do I find funders for a employment nonprofit in Maine?

Start with the funders already giving to employment in Maine, currently Harold Alfond Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Melmac Education Foundation. Then look at who funds the employment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maine from out of state.

Who is the largest employment funder in Maine?

Harold Alfond Foundation gives the most to employment organizations in Maine, $11M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to employment in Maine?

$49M reached 66 employment organizations in Maine, from 184 funders. 54% came from funders also based in Maine.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Maine · Employment

Who funds employment in Maine

$49M reached 66 employment organizations in Maine, from 184 funders, with no single one dominating.

$49M

granted

organizations

54%

from in-state

The short version

184 funders gave $49M to 66 employment organizations in Maine across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
54% of that came from funders also based in Maine; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of employment in Maine is Harold Alfond Foundation, at $11M.
The employment organization drawing the most is Goodwill Industries of Northern NE, at $15M.

Largest funders of employment in Maine

The funders giving the most to employment organizations in Maine, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Harold Alfond Foundation$11M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$11M 3Melmac Education Foundation$4M 4Volunteer Nh$4M 5Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy$2M 6Maine Community Foundation Inc$1M 7Maine Workers Compensation Policyholder Trust$1M 8Food and Medicine - Jobs With Justice Education Fund$1M 9Boston Foundation Inc$1M 10United Way Inc$1M

Employment organizations in Maine that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Goodwill Industries of Northern NE$15M Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc$14M

56 other employment organizations$6M

Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy$2M Generation US$2M Educate Maine$2M Southern Maine Workers Center$2M

How to find employment funders in Maine

1
Start with the funders already active in Maine
The funders giving the most to employment in Maine are Harold Alfond Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Melmac Education Foundation. A funder already writing employment checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the employment organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
46% of employment money in Maine comes from funders elsewhere, so national employment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Maine.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a employment nonprofit in Maine?: Start with the funders already giving to employment in Maine, currently Harold Alfond Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Melmac Education Foundation. Then look at who funds the employment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maine from out of state.
Who is the largest employment funder in Maine?: Harold Alfond Foundation gives the most to employment organizations in Maine, $11M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to employment in Maine?: $49M reached 66 employment organizations in Maine, from 184 funders. 54% came from funders also based in Maine.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.