Total grant dollars requested last cycle: $137,863
Total grant dollars awarded last cycle: $50,521
Percentage of proposals that received full funding: 33%
Percentage of proposals that received partial funding: 33%
Maximum grant award last cycle: $7,506
Average grant size last cycle: $3,609
Application deadline: February 15
Launched in 1986 with gifts from three local banks, the Washington County Fund provides permanent support to nonprofits in the region. Overseen by an advisory committee of local community leaders who partner with the foundation to build charitable resources, the Washington County Fund has awarded almost 200 grants since 1987.
The Maine Community Foundation manages the Washington County Fund, and local leaders, knowledgeable about their communities, help review grant applications and distribute funding.
Recent grants from the Washington County Fund
- American Red Cross - Pine Tree Chapter, Bangor, in support of the Washington County Red Cross Disaster Volunteer Training Institute Project
- Literacy Volunteers of Washington County, Machias, to organize and host the Imagination Library Carnival/Early Childhood Resource Fair at the University of Maine at Machias and Washington County Community College
- The Greenland Point Festival, Princeton, to add a media camp program for teens
Complete list of 2011 Washington County Fund grants
Other ways the community foundation
is serving the region
- In addition to the Washington County Fund, the foundation currently holds more than $4 million in assets dedicated to Washington County in the form of donor-advised funds, scholarships, designated funds to support specific organizations, and field-of-interest funds.
- Since 2002 more than $260,000 in additional grant support for projects serving Washington County has come from a network of Maine Community Foundation donors in support of proposals submitted to the foundation’s competitive grant programs.
- Washington County Scholarships
To make a donation or for more information about the Washington County Fund
Please contact the Maine Community Foundation by phone, toll-free, at (877) 700-6800, or by e-mail at grants@mainecf.org.