Funding search · environmental education · Maine
Who funds environmental education work in Maine
15 funders have a record of paying for environmental education work by Maine recipients: 72 grants totaling $3.8M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The Onion Foundation ($301,500), Leonard C & Mildred F Ferguson Foundation ($445,000) and Maine Community Foundation ($384,780).
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.
Largest: $75,000 to Maine Environmental Education Association — to conduct a landscape analysis of maines youth climate movement
Largest: $5,000 to Thompson Lake Environmental Association — environmental education programs
Maine Community FoundationEllsworth, MECharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $384,780 · through 2023Largest: $226,500 to Hurricane Island Foundation — environmental education, youth development programs
Largest: $267,000 to Maine Environmental Education Association — general operating support
The Nature ConservancyArlington, VACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $638,246 · through 2024Largest: $174,646 to MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — conservation activities
Largest: $20,000 to Maine Environmental Education Association — maine environmental education association operating support 2025
North American Association for Environmental EducaWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $52,796 · through 2024Largest: $9,000 to MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOC — environmental education projects
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $65,000 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — healthy individuals and communities
Largest: $15,000 to MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — to support environmental projects.
Largest: $100,000 to MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATIO — general operating
Largest: $14,000 to CHEWONKI FOUNDATION — support environmental education
Largest: $19,000 to MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — 2022 movement grant
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