Funding search · domestic violence · Maine
Who funds domestic violence work in Maine
15 funders have a record of paying for domestic violence work by Maine recipients: 72 grants totaling $20.7M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Maine Coalition To End Domestic ($18.8M), Atlantic Charitable Fund ($243,750) and Maine Community Foundation ($443,122).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Maine recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Maine Coalition To End DomesticAugusta, MECharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $18.8M · through 2023Largest: $1.0M to NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT — domestic violence
Largest: $35,000 to Trinity Jubilee Center — support for homeless, domestic violence, and substance abuse programs
Maine Community FoundationEllsworth, MECharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $443,122 · through 2024Largest: $99,952 to Next Step Domestic Violence Project — family violence shelters
Jewish Federation of CentralWorcester, MACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $32,400 · through 2024Largest: $6,000 to NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — to support and empower people affected by domestic violence
Largest: $175,000 to Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence — $25,000 for the liberation fund; $150,000 to support general operations
Largest: $30,000 to ST ANDRE HOME — toward expenses of the "couragelives" outpatient and residential services, to human trafficking, domestic violence and/or sexual assault victims and their families.
Largest: $100,000 to SAFE VOICES — domestic violence and sex trafficking resource center
Penquis CapBangor, MECharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $97,029 · through 2022Largest: $80,220 to Partners for Peace — to engage individuals and the community to end domestic violence in penobscot and piscataquis counties.
Safe VoicesAuburn, MECharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $140,345 · through 2021Largest: $87,956 to OFFICE OF THE ATTORNY GEN OXFORD — domestic violence
Largest: $8,000 to NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — to be allocated for the youth education prevention program materials and mileage.
Largest: $75,000 to MAINE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — savings and safety: a collaboration of the maine coalition to end domestic violence and new ventures maine
Largest: $3,000 to MAINE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — general & unrestricted
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