Funding search · EIN 010529871 · Portland, ME

Maine Technology Institute

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

816
grants reported
$80.5M
total given
2021–2024
filing years
$32,667
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20212024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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4 grants matching “deliverables · $464,148

  • $339,148

    Biofine Developments Northeast · Portland, ME · 2023

    Biofine Developments Northeast (BDNE) owns a proprietary technology that enables the economic conversion of waste ligno/cellulosic feedstocks into third-party verified co2 negative bioproducts. Currently, BDNE is workin read all
  • $75,000

    Dewey · Yarmouth, ME · 2023

    Dewey is a subscription-based SaaS learning platform and program featuring multimedia, multilingual resources in wellbeing and academic achievement for parents and caregivers of school age children. Dewey is looking for read all
  • $25,000

    Monroe Infrared Technology · Brunswick, ME · 2023

    ADEPT is the proprietary software platform Monroe Infrared Technology developed to deliver meaningful safety and actionable post-inspection data to our utility clients. Electric utility structure inspections entail sUAS read all
  • $25,000

    Nec Group · Eliot, ME · 2023

    Our technology streamlines the engineering process and production methods of a low volume sportscar chassis. This allows for our company to quickly design a safe, easily manufacturable structure. By shortening the devel read all

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Somerset Economic Development Corporation1 grant · $3.0M
  • Roux Institute4 grants · $1.6M
  • Rockstep Solutions2 grants · $1.3M
  • Kinotek Llc2 grants · $1.2M
  • Go Lab3 grants · $1.2M
  • Maine Plywood USA4 grants · $1.1M
  • Tanbark Molded Fiber Products2 grants · $1.1M
  • University of Maine3 grants · $1.1M
  • Robbins Lumber East Baldwin Llc2 grants · $990,000
  • Stratton Lumber1 grant · $990,000

Giving over time

$10.6M
2021
$30.7M
2022
$17.0M
2023
$22.2M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 816 grants.

  • $3.0M

    Somerset Economic Development Corporation · Skowhegan, ME · 2024

    Somerset Forest Recovery Program.

  • $1.0M

    Kinotek Llc · Portland, ME · 2023

    Kinotek is a B2B SaaS platform that uses AI-driven technology deliver fast, objective human movement metrics. It is a disruptor in the $420 billion musculoskeletal health market where clinicians currently rely on a plas read all
  • $1.0M

    Rockstep Solutions · Portland, ME · 2023

    RockStep develops and delivers SaaS solutions for managing data and operations for drug discovery and life sciences research. The company seeks $1M in equity investment from MTI to accelerate sales revenue growth throug read all
  • $990,000

    Hancock Lumber Company · Casco, ME · 2024

    Bethel Value Added.

  • $990,000

    Stratton Lumber · Stratton, ME · 2024

    Hurst Boiler, Grinder and Auto-wrapper.

  • $990,000

    Go Lab · Belfast, ME · 2023

    Capital Support for First U.S. Wood Fiber Insulation Plant, GO Lab, Inc. Madison, Maine.

  • $984,215

    Tanbark Molded Fiber Products · Saco, ME · 2023

    Hybrid Molded Fiber clamshell pilot project, Tanbark Medical Materials Market, Debt Financing to purchase equipment to increase capacity by 200%

  • $934,300

    Standard Biocarbon Corporation · Portland, ME · 2022

    Fund Request for Labor costs Associated with Narrow Project Start-Up Window Caused in Part by COVID related delays

  • $725,000

    Whole Trees Llc · Madison, WI · 2023

    Partnering to Repurpose and Reopen: Bringing innovative inventory systems, sales strategy and production processes to existing Maine facility to meet proven East Coast demand for the Original Mass Timber.

  • $560,000

    Roux Institute · Portland, ME · 2024

    BioIN Incubator and BioPILOT Lab, a collaboration between the Northeastern/Roux Institute and the University of Southern Maine.; Future of Healthcare Founder Residency; Life Science Impact Forum; Startup Solutions: Immi read all
  • $559,215

    Maine Plywood USA · Bingham, ME · 2023

    Maine Plywood is building the only plywood mill in North America to manufacture Plywood underlayment. It will also be the ONLY plywood mill in New England. This plant is being built to replace the Multiply plywood plant read all
  • $550,000

    Roux Institute · Boston, MA · 2023

    The goal of the proposed BioIN Incubator and BioPILOT Lab initiatives is to create a pilot incubator and prototyping space for life science companies. Our hypothesis is that leases for turnkey wet lab space and access t read all
  • $530,000

    Defendify · Portland, ME · 2022

    Defendify, Inc. Response Plan due to Negative Economic Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic

  • $530,000

    Springworks Farm Maine · Lisbon, ME · 2022

    At Springworks Farm, we believe Maine has the potential to become a leader in leafy greens production. To make this a reality, we are adding an additional 500,000 square feet of additional grow space over the next five read all
  • $500,000

    Eme Biofuels Llc · Woodstock, VT · 2024

    EME Biofuels.

  • $500,000

    Compotech · Brewer, ME · 2023

    Compotech has developed the next generation of expeditionary and modular military shelters. MINATORS can be assembled by a small group of soldiers, providing the comforts of a permanent shelter with the mobility and mod read all
  • $500,000

    Fork Food Lab · South Portland, ME · 2023

    Fork Food Lab 2.0

  • $500,000

    Good Shepherd Food Bank · Auburn, ME · 2023

    Investing in Maine's first at scale green vegetable processing supply chain.

  • $500,000

    Jl Rich Timber Harvesting Llc · Hodgdon, ME · 2023

    New Cut to Length Operation

  • $500,000

    North Spore Llc · Portland, ME · 2023

    We are seeking funding to further expand our digital marketing and sales team, as well as create a human resources department. We are in a rapid growth and hiring phase as we begin to take advantage of our new manufactu read all
  • $500,000

    Global Secure Shipping · Orono, ME · 2021

    Establishing a Secure Composite Shipping Container Manufacturing Facility in Maine

  • $499,317

    Tanbark Molded Fiber Products · Portland, ME · 2024

    Electricity Upgrade to expand Production Capacity Video Production for Marketing Assets.

  • $495,000

    Robbins Lumber East Baldwin Llc · Searsmont, ME · 2024

    Better Utilization of the Eastern White Pine Resource through Implementation of Value-based Scanning.

  • $495,000

    Sappi North America · Westbrook, ME · 2024

    Improvement of pulp and paper mill productivity when softwood chip ratio increases beyond 15% during the Copulp process at Somerset mill.

  • $495,000

    Nd Evergreen Llc · Old Town, ME · 2023

    ND Paper Rumford Division PM15 Rebuild

  • $495,000

    Robbins Lumber East Baldwin Llc · Searsmont, ME · 2023

    Better Utilization of the Eastern White Pine Resource through Implementation of Value-based Scanning

  • $490,268

    University of Maine · Orono, ME · 2021

    Forestry Recovery Initiative

  • $490,000

    Godfrey Forest Arizona Llc · Marblehead, MA · 2024

    Godfrey Forest Maine OSB Mill.

  • $450,000

    T&D Wood Energy Llc · Sanford, ME · 2024

    Acquiring two shuttered facilities and expanding existing facility to meet rapidly increasing demand.

  • $449,167

    Nyle Systems Llc · Brewer, ME · 2022

    Pandemic Recovery Plan

  • $440,000

    Coursestorm · Orono, ME · 2022

    Investment made to accelerate growth and attract, upskill and retain staff.

  • $437,467

    Reconnect · Cumberland, ME · 2022

    Scaling and build foundation for our largest customer (the 3rd largest county in the U.S.)

  • $426,413

    Maine Space Corporation · Augusta, ME · 2024

    Building Maines Space Knowledge Cluster in Space Applications.

  • $400,000

    Shucks Maine Lobster Llc · West Gardiner, ME · 2023

    Shucks Maine Lobster has become an internationally award winning Maine Lobster processor of innovative value-added products utilizing state of the art HPP technology. We currently have 60 employees in a 26,000 SF facili read all
  • $400,000

    Highbyte · Portland, ME · 2022

    Retention and Recruitment Funding

  • $396,667

    The Montalvo Corporation · Gorham, ME · 2022

    COVID 19 Pandemic Recovery Funding

  • $373,333

    Caron Engineering · Wells, ME · 2022

    We plan to use these funds for four core initiatives at our company.

  • $373,333

    David Saunders · S Portland, ME · 2022

    Automation for process efficiencies and job creation/retention.

  • $373,333

    North Spore Llc · Portland, ME · 2022

    Infrastructure and supply chain improvements for post-pandemic resiliency

  • $366,667

    Deep Water Buoyancy · Biddeford, ME · 2022

    high volume automated mixer purchase

  • $360,000

    Auburn Manufacturing · Mechanic Falls, ME · 2022

    Upgrade of AMI facilities and add/improve its skilled workforce to meet Defense Industrial Base demand

  • $360,000

    Origin Bjj Llc · Farmington, ME · 2022

    Additional Hires: 2022 Year-End Headcount vs 2021 Year End Headcount: 30 x $50,000 Average Loaded Cost = $1,500,000Investments in New Processing Equipment: New looms to supplement/replace decades old machinery (quote pr read all
  • $346,667

    Arkatechture · Portland, ME · 2022

    Expand Hiring & Develop a New Training Program to Grow & Sustain Go-to-Market, Product Development & Delivery Capacity

  • $346,667

    Grover Gundilling Llc · Oxford, ME · 2022

    COVID Pandemic Response Funding

  • $346,667

    Yale Cordage · Saco, ME · 2022

    Process improvements

  • $339,617

    Opal Build Llc (Dba Notchsb) · Belfast, ME · 2024

    Creating Resiliency in Residential Housing Construction; OPAL Build - Unlocking Affordable Housing through Sustainability.

  • $339,148

    Biofine Developments Northeast · Portland, ME · 2023

    Biofine Developments Northeast (BDNE) owns a proprietary technology that enables the economic conversion of waste ligno/cellulosic feedstocks into third-party verified co2 negative bioproducts. Currently, BDNE is workin read all
  • $333,333

    Polymer Laboratories & Solutions Llc · Portland, ME · 2022

    Next Generation Polyurethane Molded Parts Production Equipment to Support US Army Warfighters

  • $328,605

    University of Maine · Orono, ME · 2022

    Vision & Roadmap for Maine's Forest Sector

  • $322,867

    Bookclubz · Camden, ME · 2022

    We plan to utilize this $200,000 grant to increase our ad sales revenue to 20% in the next 12 months and build the foundation for a 100% jump in ad sales revenue in 2023. Well use the funding as following:$150,000 (sala read all
  • $320,000

    Brooklin Boat Yard · Brooklin, ME · 2022

    Brooklin Boat Yard Innovation Upgrade

  • $317,250

    Competitive Energy Services Llc · Portland, ME · 2022

    Energy & Sustainability Data Services

  • $316,973

    Bourgeois Guitars Llc · Lewiston, ME · 2022

    The PLEK is a specialized CNC machine designed to optimize every element that contributes to a guitars playability. Its functions include milling highly complex geometric fretboard surfaces, leveling and shaping frets, read all
  • $310,000

    Alakazam · Portland, ME · 2022

    Applicant has yet to launch their 3d web metaverse platform but has revenue through their consulting/professional services in the same field and provided two LOIs from potential customers for when their product launches.

  • $306,667

    Casco Bay Molding Ltd · Sanford, ME · 2022

    Casco Bay Molding (Casco), started in Sanford in 2000, has grown into an FDA Registered, ISO 13485 Certified product development and manufacturing company specializing in silicone rubber and thermoplastic medical device read all
  • $306,667

    North End Composites Llc · Rockland, ME · 2022

    Pandemic Recovery Funding for Hiring and Retention and Manufacturing Efficiencies

  • $306,667

    Steel-Pro · Rockland, ME · 2022

    Production Optimization Purchase Heavy Duty Internal Seam Grinding System aka Polisher to increase output capacity of a specific product for the biopharmaceutical market sector. This equipment will allow us to dedicate read all
  • $306,667

    The Baker Company · Sanford, ME · 2022

    COVID 19 Pandemic Recovery Funding

  • $300,000

    Our People · Portland, ME · 2023

    OurPeople.com provides employee communications and operations software to the hourly workforce in businesses of all sizes across the US and the UK.

  • $299,000

    Hyperlite Mountain Gear · Biddeford, ME · 2022

    Marketing and R&D Enhancement

  • $293,333

    Farming Fungi Llc · Sanford, ME · 2022

    For COVID Pandemic Response Plan

  • $290,000

    Dream Local Digital Ltd · Thomaston, ME · 2022

    SkillsBuilder Marketing Coach program launch & New Market Development

  • $283,749

    Maine Space Grant Consortium · Augusta, ME · 2022

    In the current MTI Investment, we complete the strategic plan for the Maine Space Complex (see Attachment A). As the result of the planning effort, we identified additional work that would lead to a stronger foundation read all
  • $280,000

    Biddeford Internet Corp · Biddeford, ME · 2022

    Metaswitch Project - Virtualize Entire Phone Switch Infrastructure

  • $280,000

    Lifethereal Llc · Gorham, ME · 2022

    COVID Pandemic Response Funding

  • $280,000

    Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory · Salisbury Cove, ME · 2022

    Advancing Drug Discovery in Maine

  • $280,000

    Ocean Renewable Power Company · Portland, ME · 2022

    order the manufacturing and delivery of a generator and driveline to expedite the assembly/lead time in anticipation of upcoming closing agreements with a next-in-the-pipeline customer, a municipality in Patagonia, Chil read all
  • $280,000

    Rockstep Solutions · Portland, ME · 2022

    STEM job opportunities for Maine

  • $273,285

    Maine Plywood USA · Bingham, ME · 2024

    LEGAL COUNCIL: To determine whether or not to continue as an LLC or become a C-corp. In addition with the oncoming USDA loan and advising on raising money from Equity partners; Maine Plywood; Powering the next generatio read all
  • $266,667

    Nbt Solutions Llcvetro · Portland, ME · 2022

    Additional Hires and Enhanced compensation, benefits or training for existing employees

  • $266,667

    Sea Bags · Portland, ME · 2022

    invest in additional equipment and staff to double our output in the next three years. Covid Pandemic Recovery

  • $260,000

    Constant Energy Capital Management · Falmouth, ME · 2022

    Fintech platform feature delivery and customer onboarding

  • $260,000

    Myhealthmath Llc · Portland, ME · 2022

    Pandemic Recovery Funding

  • $260,000

    Pk Floats · Lincoln, ME · 2022

    Natural Resources Protection Aircraft Development

  • $260,000

    Tis Brewer Llc · Troy, NY · 2022

    High Definition Five Axis CNC Plasma Table

  • $255,000

    Nautical Farms Llc · Machias, ME · 2024

    Digital Marketing & E-Commerce; Nautical Farms LLC Expansion.

  • $253,333

    Maine Wood Turning · New Vineyard, ME · 2022

    We plan to upgrade our bolter saw operation in our sawmill from 1970s technology to current. Included will be a Custom Resaw and Return system, gang saws, and conveyor systems in and out of the saw area.

  • $253,000

    Blushift Aerospace · Brunswick, ME · 2023

    bluShift seeks funding of its Seed round to realize FAA licensing of its launch vehicle, future Maine launch site, construction of its suborbital rocket Starless Rogue and achieving a successful launch with paying custo read all
  • $253,000

    Pumpspotting · Eliot, ME · 2023

    Pumpspotting is making the world more inclusive for feeding families. Our tech-enabled solution helps companies provide baby-feeding support to their employees, customers, patients, and guests. We are raising our Series read all
  • $250,000

    Eagle Point Energy Center Llc · Orrington, ME · 2024

    Eagle Point Phase II Process Upgrade.

  • $250,000

    Grandy Organics Llc · Hiram, ME · 2024

    Build out management team and automate production to make Grandy Organics a more resilient business.

  • $250,000

    Great Northern Salmon · Millinocket, ME · 2024

    Implementation of critical path initiatives to ensure construction start on schedule.

  • $250,000

    Looma Llc · South Portland, ME · 2024

    Addition of Volume Manufacturing to Looma's Services.

  • $250,000

    Maine Canned Fish · Topsham, ME · 2024

    Maine Canned Fish Startup.

  • $250,000

    Maine Electric Boat Company Llc · Biddeford, ME · 2024

    Electric Propulsion Workforce Training.

  • $250,000

    Maine Grains · Skowhegan, ME · 2024

    Building capacity to manufacture upcycled nutritious grain cereals and snacks at Maine Grains.

  • $250,000

    The Good Crust Llc · Canaan, ME · 2024

    Good Crust Builds Resilience with Infrastructure Expansion to Serve Schools.

  • $250,000

    Washburn & Doughty Associates · Boothbay, ME · 2024

    Hiring Initiatives: Human Resources Director, Project Manager and Hybrid Support Engineers; Purchase and Implementation of ERP System.

  • $250,000

    Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2023

    Roux Institute Venture Creation & Acceleration Platform is a set of robust, venture creation and acceleration programs designed to position Maine as the most exciting place to start a high-growth venture focused on Adva read all
  • $250,000

    Prosperityme · Portland, ME · 2023

    Individual Development Account Program

  • $250,000

    Kennebec Technologies · Augusta, ME · 2022

    COVID Pandemic Response Funding

  • $250,000

    Maine Plywood USA · Bingham, ME · 2022

    help put all this machinery back together and accelerate the start of the plywood plant.

  • $250,000

    Roux Institute · Boston, MA · 2022

    Future of Healthcare Founder Residency

  • $250,000

    Farmhand Automation · Biddeford, ME · 2021

    Autonomous Electric Rover for Automated Carbon Free Farming

  • $250,000

    Peregrine Turbine Technologies Llc · Wiscasset, ME · 2021

    A new technology for storing renewable, non-dispatchable power using Thermal Energy Storage technology coupled with Peregrine's breakthrough turbine engine technology which employs super-critical Carbon Dioxide and achi read all
  • $250,000

    Roux Institute · Portland, ME · 2021

    Roux Institute Venture Creation & Acceleration Platform is a set of robust, venture creation and acceleration programs designed to position Maine as the most exciting place to start a high-growth venture focused on Adva read all
  • $250,000

    Treeline · Lincoln, ME · 2021

    Forestry Recovery Initiative

  • $240,000

    Kinotek Llc · Portland, ME · 2022

    COVID Pandemic Response Funding

  • $240,000

    Ready Seafood Co · Saco, ME · 2022

    Power Delivery to a Rural Maine Lobster Business

  • $239,128

    University of Maine · Orono, ME · 2023

    The university of Maine has a variety of activities that are funded by MTI

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