February

• Community Building supports projects and organizations focused on making communities stronger.
• Hospice Fund supports hospice services in Cumberland and York counties.
• PF Fund for the Baldwin Area supports projects that focus on efforts to bring residents together and improve life in the community.
• River Rock Shared Future Fund supports achieving greater racial equity by increasing economic opportunities, education levels and health and wellness in communities of color in Maine.

March

• Land for Communities supports community land projects that increase relationships to land for underserved geographies and populations in Maine.

May

• Frances Hollis Brain Foundation Fund supports nonprofit organizations and projects that serve disadvantaged, underserved and/or vulnerable communities in Lewiston/Auburn, Biddeford/Saco, Sanford, Brunswick, Bath and Greater Portland.

September

• Animal Welfare provides three-year general support grants to organizations dedicated to advancing animal welfare for small companion animals in Maine, primarily cats and dogs.
• Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund supports early childhood and youth engagement programs in Greater Portland.
• Equity Fund supports projects and organizations that serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community of Maine.
• Land for Communities supports community land projects that increase relationships to land for underserved geographies and populations in Maine.
• Maine Expansion Arts provides general support grants to arts organizations in Maine focused on an underserved geography or population with limited access to arts programming including dance, music, theater, visual, and/or traditional arts.
• Maine Theater supports nonprofit professional and community theaters in the production and presentation of live theater.
• Maine Women’s Fund provides two-year general support grants to make bold investments that transform the lives of women and girls.
• Rines Thompson Fund supports organizations and projects in Greater Portland working in the areas of environment/conservation, early childhood programming, youth programming, and arts/culture.

October

• Leonard and Renee Minsky Fund for Arts Education supports artists in residence to work with teachers to bring arts into grade three through five classrooms in Penobscot and Washington county public schools.

The following grant programs are not currently accepting applications or are accepting applications by invitation only.

• Belvedere Traditional Handcrafts will not accept applications in 2023-2025.
• Welch Charitable Fund accepts applications by invitation only that support organizations in the Greater Portland area with preference given to nonprofits working with youth, education, health care, alcohol and substance abuse rehabilitation, and/or arts and culture.

Closed Grant Programs

The following grant programs are now closed. Your organization may be eligible to apply to one of the grant programs listed above. MaineCF has compiled resources for applicants who are currently writing grants and researching funders here.

• Belvedere Historic Preservation Fund grant program closed in 2024. Review eligibility for Community Building.
• Conservation for All grant program closed in 2024. Review eligibility for Land for Communities.
• Maine Charity grant program closed in 2025. Review eligibility for Community Building.
• Maine Land Protection grant program closed in 2025. Review eligibility for Land for Communities.
• Peaks Island Fund is now a separate nonprofit organization that administers its own grant program. For contact information or to apply, please visit the Peaks Island Fund website.

*A list of recent grants for these closed programs can be found here.