How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Maine?

Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Maine, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Libra Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maine from out of state.

Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Maine?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Maine, $38M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Maine?

$199M reached 281 food and agriculture organizations in Maine, from 777 funders. 46% 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 · Food and agriculture

Who funds food and agriculture in Maine

$199M reached 281 food and agriculture organizations in Maine, from 777 funders, with no single one dominating.

$199M

granted

281

organizations

46%

from in-state

The short version

777 funders gave $199M to 281 food and agriculture organizations in Maine across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
46% of that came from funders also based in Maine; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of food and agriculture in Maine is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $38M.
The food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Good Shepherd Food Bank, at $65M.

Largest funders of food and agriculture in Maine

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$38M 2Libra Foundation$32M 3Maine Community Foundation Inc$12M 4Good Shepherd Food Bank$10M 5Feeding America$9M 6Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy$6M 7Woodcock Foundation$5M 8Elmina B Sewall Foundation$4M 9Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$4M 10Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc$3M

Food and agriculture organizations in Maine that draw the most

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

Good Shepherd Food Bank$65M

271 other food and agriculture organizations$56M

Pineland Farms Inc$32M Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association$12M Maine Farmland Trust$11M

How to find food and agriculture funders in Maine

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Start with the funders already active in Maine
The funders giving the most to food and agriculture in Maine are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Libra Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc. A funder already writing food and agriculture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the food and agriculture 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
54% of food and agriculture money in Maine comes from funders elsewhere, so national food and agriculture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Maine.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Maine?: Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Maine, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Libra Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maine from out of state.
Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Maine?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Maine, $38M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Maine?: $199M reached 281 food and agriculture organizations in Maine, from 777 funders. 46% 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.

More from the funding graph

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.