Pond Family Foundation
Scarborough, ME · EIN 20-1131673. Reported 52 grants totalling $467,500 to 52 recipients across tax years 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. Pond Family 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $50,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | Auburn, ME | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mainehealth (fbo Maine Behavioral Healthcare) | South Portland, ME | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Southern Maine Foundation | Portland, ME | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | Portland, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine | Portland, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| First Congregational Church | South Portland, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Smcc Foundation | South Portland, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Portland Parks Conservancy | Portland, ME | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Maine Needs | Portland, ME | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Preble Street | Portland, ME | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Spurwink | Portland, ME | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Riverside Community Care | Dedham, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Southern Maine | Portland, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Children First Fund | Chicago, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Carroll School | Lincoln, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | Cambridge, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Catie's Closet | Dracut, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cradles to Crayons | Newtonville, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Falmouth Congregational Church | Falmouth, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Falmouth Education Foundation | Falmouth, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gulf of Maine Research Institute | Portland, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | Portland, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Maine Cancer Foundation | Falmouth, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Maine Life Care Retirement Community Inc | Scarborough, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| New York City Police Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Newton Neighbors Inc | Newton Center, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| North Yarmouth Academy | Yarmouth, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center | Windham, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Shalom House | Portland, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St John Paul II Parish | Scarborough, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Trinity School | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Understanding Our Differences | Newton, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Arkansas Foundation Inc | Fayetteville, AR | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation | Carmel, IN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cape Elizabeth Hockey Boosters | Cape Elizabeth, ME | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cape Elizabeth Music Boosters | Cape Elizabeth, ME | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cape Elizabeth School Department | Cape Elizabeth, ME | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mainehealth (fbo Maine Medical Center) | Portland, ME | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Newton Turkey Trot | Waban, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Psl Servicesstrive | South Portland, ME | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends of Casco Bay | Portland, ME | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Holy Cross School | South Portland, ME | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Judy's Pantry | Cape Elizabeth, ME | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Milestone Recovery | Portland, ME | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Northern Light Health Foundation | Brewer, ME | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Scarborough Public Libaray | Scarborough, ME | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Services for the Underserved | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Simple Gifts | Cape Elizabeth, ME | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Thomas Memorial Library Foundation | Cape Elizabeth, ME | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Lung Association | Chicago, IL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine | Portland, ME | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
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.
- Mainehealth (fbo Maine Behavioral Healthcare)
GLCoE, Signs of Hope, Leadership Society - University of Southern Maine Foundation
Promise Scholarship and Symposium - Preble Street
General Support; Verterans' Housing - University of Southern Maine
USM Athletics f/b/o Men's Lacrosse - Children First Fund
Currie High School Robotics Team - Bates College
Men's and Women's Track Programs
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 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.
Where its money goes
85% 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 $5,000. 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Pond Family 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: 8 Atlantic Drive, Scarborough, ME, 04074. 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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