Maine Council on Aging
Brunswick, ME · EIN 46-1549012. Reported 71 grants totalling $637,453 to 70 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 70 distinct organizations, with 4% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,120 and the largest $15,720. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equality Maine Foundation | Portland, ME | $25,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| In Her Presence | Portland, ME | $15,720 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whyhunger Inc | New York, NY | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maine Access Immigrant Network | Portland, ME | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Age Friendly Saco | Saco, ME | $12,452 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Greater Nashua Inc | Nashua, NH | $12,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities Maine | Portland, ME | $12,190 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont Incorporated | Springfield, VT | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stone Soup Cafe Inc | Greenfield, MA | $10,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chittenden County Senior Citizens Alliance Inc | Burlington, VT | $10,234 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Age Well Inc | Colchester, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc | Brockton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc | Lebanon, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program Inc | Brunswick, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mill City Grows Inc | Lowell, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mount Desert Island Hospital | Bar Harbor, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Hampshire Hunger Solutions Inc | Concord, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regional Environmental Council Inc | Worcester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Maine Agency on Aging | Biddeford, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Joseph Community Services Inc | Manchester, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Urban Farming Institute of Boston Inc | Mattapan, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Turning Point Recovery Center of Springfield Vermont | Springfield, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Merrimac Coa | Merrimac, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Unitarian Church Montpelier | Montpelier, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Victory Women of Vision | Manchester, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woodstock Area Council on Aging | Woodstock, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighbors Driving Neighbors | Mount Vernon, ME | $9,998 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brattleboro Housing Opportunities Inc | Brattleboro, VT | $9,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope and Justice Project Inc | Presque Isle, ME | $9,822 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Volunteer Transportation Company | Peterborough, NH | $9,720 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oxford Hills Community Gardens | Norway, ME | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brattleboro Area Adult Day Services | Brattleboro, VT | $9,367 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Healthy Island Project | Stonington, ME | $9,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Danforth Livable Communities | Danforth, ME | $9,240 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Richford Health Center Inc | Richford, VT | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vna at Hcs Inc | Keene, NH | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hands | Burlington, VT | $8,805 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Berwick Community Garden | Berwick, ME | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Three Sisters Garden Project Inc | Ipswich, MA | $8,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spiritual Care Services of Maine | Bath, ME | $8,650 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success | Manchester, NH | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shalom Food Pantry Inc | Delmar, NY | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Healthy Peninsula | Blue Hill, ME | $8,416 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Lynn Senior Services Inc | Lynn, MA | $8,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harpswell Aging at Home | Harpswell, ME | $8,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Andover Elder Services | North Andover, MA | $8,240 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Samaritan Haven | Barre, VT | $8,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| African Cultural Services Inc | Waltham, MA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighbors of Northern Columbia County | Valatie, NY | $7,805 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc | Presque Isle, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Age Friendly Windham V | Windham, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New England Arab American Organization | Portland, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saco Meals Program | Saco, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Service of Orange County Inc | Middletown, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women for Healthy Rural Living | Milbridge, ME | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bridgton Community Center | Bridgton, ME | $6,918 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maine Highlands Senior Center | Dovr Foxcroft, ME | $6,764 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Somali Bantu Community Assoc | Wales, ME | $6,480 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Table of Plenty | Berwick, ME | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oxford Hills Food Pantry | Norway, ME | $6,112 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fareground Community Kitchen | Beacon, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Island Connections | Bar Harbor, ME | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ossipee Concerned Citizens Inc | Center Ossipee, NH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kingston Council on Aging V | Kingston, MA | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cross Cultural Community Services | Portland, ME | $5,650 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maine Federation of Farmers Markets | Freeport, ME | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Norton Council on Aging | Norton, MA | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hull Senior Center | Hull, MA | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Anns Penobscot Food Pantry | Indian Island, ME | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Maine Area Agency on Aging | Augusta, ME | $5,120 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- In Her Presence
Food security & social connection
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 51 of 70 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
45% of its giving went to organizations in Maine. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maine.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Maine Council on Aging's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 71 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 988, Brunswick, ME, 04011.
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