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

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

Who is the largest housing funder in Maine?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in Maine, $13M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to housing in Maine?

$107M reached 165 housing organizations in Maine, from 595 funders. 40% 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 · Housing

Who funds housing in Maine

$107M reached 165 housing organizations in Maine, from 595 funders, with no single one dominating.

$107M

granted

165

organizations

40%

from in-state

The short version

595 funders gave $107M to 165 housing organizations in Maine across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
40% of that came from funders also based in Maine; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of housing in Maine is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $13M.
The housing organization drawing the most is Preble Street, at $29M.

Largest funders of housing in Maine

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$13M 2Maine Community Foundation Inc$10M 3Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$5M 4United Way Inc$5M 5Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$5M 6John T Gorman Foundation$4M 7Phillips-Strickland Charities$4M 8The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation$3M 9Rocking Moon Foundation Inc$1M 10New Hampshire Charitable Foundation$1M

Housing organizations in Maine that draw the most

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

155 other housing organizations$41M

Preble Street$29M Homeworthy$9M Avesta Housing Development Corporation$7M

How to find housing funders in Maine

1
Start with the funders already active in Maine
The funders giving the most to housing in Maine are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. A funder already writing housing checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the housing 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
60% of housing money in Maine comes from funders elsewhere, so national housing funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Maine.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in Maine?: Start with the funders already giving to housing in Maine, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maine from out of state.
Who is the largest housing funder in Maine?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in Maine, $13M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to housing in Maine?: $107M reached 165 housing organizations in Maine, from 595 funders. 40% 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.