Hannaford Charitable Foundation
Portland, ME · EIN 01-0483892. Reported 73 grants totalling $5,343,333 to 55 recipients across tax years 2022-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Hannaford Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $50,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $25,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $350,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Southern Maine (aka United Way of Greater Portland) | Portland, ME | $1,050,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | Portland, ME | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Scholarship America Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $441,833 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Bangor Region YMCA | Bangor, ME | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| United Way of Southern Maine | Portland, ME | $350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mainehealth (fbo Maine Medical Center) | Portland, ME | $240,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dempsey Centers for Quality Cancer Care | Auburn, ME | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Vermont Foodbank | Barre, VT | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Augusta Maine (fbo Augusta Teen Center) | Augusta, ME | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Capital District YMCA | Albany, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity | Burlington, VT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Footprints Inc (aka Footprints Food Pantry) | Kittery, ME | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| In Our Own Voices | Albany, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Preble Street | Portland, ME | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regional Food Bank of Ne Ny (aka Food Bank of the Hudson Valley) | Latham, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Ecology School | Saco, ME | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hfm Prevention Council | Johnstown, NY | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wentworth Douglass Hospital | Somerville, MA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Central New Hampshire | Concord, NH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Food Connects | Brattleboro, VT | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Glens Falls Hospital Foundation | Glens Falls, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saint Anne Institute | Albany, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tamworth Community Nurse Association | Tamworth, NH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tedford Housing | Brunswick, ME | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YMCA Community Center of Rome New York (aka YMCA Tri-Valley) | Rome, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| York Hospital | York, ME | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Albany Med Health System | Saratoga Springs, NY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trinity Jubilee Center | Lewiston, ME | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Kita Inc | North Berwick, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fork Food Lab | South Portland, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Conway Public Library | Conway, NH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hundred Nights | Keene, NH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mainegeneral | Augusta, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc | Lowell, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | Brunswick, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| My Place Teen Center | Westbrook, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Sylvia Center | Bronx, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| YMCA Community Center of Rome New York | Rome, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| YWCA Northeastern New York | Schenectady, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South End Children's Cafe | Albany, NY | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aio Food and Energy Assistance | Rockland, ME | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Metrowest | Marlborough, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Vermont Medical Center | Barre, VT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Glens Falls Area Youth Center | Glens Falls, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Poughkeepsie Farm Project | Poughkeepsie, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bennington Early Childhood Center | Bennington, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Betty C Ketchum Foundation (aka Mwv Adult Day Center) | Center Conway, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Berwick Food Pantry | North Berwick, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Oxford Hills Community Gardens | Norway, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regenerative Roots Association | Nashua, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Friendly Kitchen | Concord, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Heart of Maine Resource Center | Dexter, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Center for Grieving Children | Portland, ME | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| People First Food Pantry | Uxbridge, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
13 of 55 (24%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 35%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Hfm Prevention Council
Creative Connections Clubhouse - Albany Med Health System
$20,000 Saratoga Hospital; $25,000 Glens Falls Hospital
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 45 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16 | $1,207,567 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 20 | $1,342,432 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 20 | $1,353,234 | $40,000 |
| 2025 | 17 | $1,440,100 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Hannaford Charitable Foundation has 3 of them, worth $450,000. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | Portland, ME | $250,000 |
| Dempsey Centers for Quality Cancer Care | Auburn, ME | $100,000 |
| Vermont Foodbank | Barre, VT | $100,000 |
Where its money goes
64% of its giving went to organizations in Maine. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $50,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Maine.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Hannaford Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1000, Portland, ME, 04104. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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