Funding search · EIN 010512082 · Portland, ME

Fisher Charitable Foundation

Name: Fisher Charitable Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

379
grants reported: $2.1M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

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

Maine Medical Center4 grants · $100,000
Downeast Community Partners4 grants · $60,000
Mitchell Institute4 grants · $60,000
United Way of Aroostook4 grants · $60,000
Portland Stage Company5 grants · $45,000
Community Concepts4 grants · $40,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine4 grants · $40,000
Avesta Housing Development Corporation4 grants · $40,000
Community Dental4 grants · $40,000
Legal Services for the Elderly4 grants · $40,000

Giving over time

$505,000

2022

$483,350

2023

$535,400

2024

$546,333

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 379 grants.

$25,000
Maine Medical Center · Portland, ME · 2025
Dean l. Fisher scholarships
$25,000
Maine Medical Center · Portland, ME · 2024
Dean l. Fisher scholarships
$25,000
Maine Medical Center · Portland, ME · 2023
Dean l. Fisher scholarships
$25,000
Portland Stage Company · Portland, ME · 2023
Making an entrance capital campaign
$25,000
Boots2roots · Portland, ME · 2022
Workforce preparedness training for military members and their families
$25,000
Maine Medical Center · Portland, ME · 2022
Dean l. Fisher scholarships
$15,000
Downeast Community Partners · Ellsworth, ME · 2025
General operating support
$15,000
Hospice of Southern Maine · Scarborough, ME · 2025
Medical equipment, supplies, and medications
$15,000
Mitchell Institute · Portland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$15,000
United Way of Aroostook · Presque Isle, ME · 2025
General operating support
$15,000
Downeast Community Partners · Ellsworth, ME · 2024
General operating support
$15,000
Mitchell Institute · Portland, ME · 2024
General operating support
$15,000
United Way of Aroostook · Presque Isle, ME · 2024
General operating support
$15,000
Avesta Housing Development Corporation · Portland, ME · 2023
Homes and support services for recent immigrants
$15,000
Downeast Community Partners · Ellsworth, ME · 2023
General operating support
$15,000
Mitchell Institute · Portland, ME · 2023
General operating support
$15,000
United Way of Aroostook · Presque Isle, ME · 2023
General operating support
$15,000
Avesta Housing Development Corporation · Portland, ME · 2022
Homes and support services for recent immigrants
$15,000
Downeast Community Partners · Ellsworth, ME · 2022
General operating support
$15,000
Mitchell Institute · Portland, ME · 2022
General operating support
$15,000
United Way of Aroostook · Presque Isle, ME · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine · Portland, ME · 2025
A place for growth capital campaign
$10,000
Community Concepts · Lewiston, ME · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Community Dental · Portland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine · Auburn, ME · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Knox County Homeless Coalition · Rockland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Legal Services for the Elderly · Augusta, ME · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Lifeflight Foundation · Augusta, ME · 2025
Lifeflight critical care program
$10,000
Open Arms Clinic · Toccoa, GA · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Portland Museum of Art · Portland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Portland Symphony Orchestra · Portland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Youth Full Maine · Biddeford, ME · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Boots2roots · Freeport, ME · 2024
Workforce preparedness training
$10,000
Community Concepts · Lewiston, ME · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Community Dental · Portland, ME · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine · Auburn, ME · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Knox County Homeless Coalition · Rockland, ME · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Legal Services for the Elderly · Augusta, ME · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Portland Museum of Art · Portland, ME · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Portland Symphony Orchestra · Portland, ME · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Prosperityme · Portland, ME · 2024
Immigrant financial literacy and counseling
$10,000
Community Concepts · Lewiston, ME · 2023
General operating support
$10,000
Community Dental · Portland, ME · 2023
General operating support
$10,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine · Auburn, ME · 2023
General operating support
$10,000
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project · Portland, ME · 2023
Connect rural mainers of limited means with immigration legal services
$10,000
Knox County Homeless Coalition · Rockland, ME · 2023
General operating support
$10,000
Legal Services for the Elderly · Augusta, ME · 2023
General operating support
$10,000
Milestone Recovery · Portland, ME · 2023
Furnish and upgrade facility
$10,000
Portland Museum of Art · Portland, ME · 2023
General operating support
$10,000
Portland Symphony Orchestra · Portland, ME · 2023
General operating support
$10,000
317 Main Community Music Center · Yarmouth, ME · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Common Threads of Maine · Westbrook, ME · 2022
Textile work training
$10,000
Community Concepts · Lewiston, ME · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Community Dental · Falmouth, ME · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine · Auburn, ME · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Knox County Homeless Coalition · Rockland, ME · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Legal Services for the Elderly · Augusta, ME · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Maine Health Dba Pen Bay Medical Center · Rockport, ME · 2022
Expand and renovate the emergency department
$10,000
Midcoast Habitat for Humanity · Rockport, ME · 2022
Home repairs/modifications to allow aging individuals to stay in their homes
$10,000
Portland Museum of Art · Portland, ME · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Portland Symphony Orchestra · Portland, ME · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Prosperityme · Portland, ME · 2022
Maine community college scholarships for asylum-seeking students
$10,000
Wabanaki Cultural Preservation Coalition · Old Town, ME · 2022
Train medical professionals within the wabanaki network to integrate homeopathic medicines
$10,000
Western Maine Addiction Recovery Initiative · Norway, ME · 2022
Sud (substance use disorder) barrier reduction fund
$9,983
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory · Salisbury Cove, ME · 2025
Pfas testing
$7,500
Students Empowered To End Dependency (Seed) · Scarborough, ME · 2025
General operating support
$7,500
Common Good Soup Kitchen Community · Southwest Harbor, ME · 2024
General operating support
$7,500
Ruth'S Reusable Resources · Portland, ME · 2024
Warehouse dehumidifier
$6,500
Friends of Long Creek Youth Development Center · South Portland, ME · 2025
Incarcerated youth programs
$6,000
Island Institute · Rockland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$6,000
Penobscot Community Health Care · Bangor, ME · 2025
General operating support
$6,000
Island Institute · Rockland, ME · 2024
General operating support
$6,000
Owls Head Transportation Museum · Owls Head, ME · 2024
Access to stem education
$6,000
Penobscot Community Health Care · Bangor, ME · 2024
General operating support
$6,000
Island Institute · Rockland, ME · 2023
General operating support
$6,000
Penobscot Community Health Care · Bangor, ME · 2023
General operating support
$6,000
Island Institute · Rockland, ME · 2022
General operating support
$6,000
Penobscot Community Health Care · Bangor, ME · 2022
General operating support
$5,000
317 Main Community Music Center · Yarmouth, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Abbe Museum · Bar Harbor, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Avesta Housing Development Corporation · Portland, ME · 2025
Homeless to housing program
$5,000
Bangor Symphony Orchestra · Bangor, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine · Camden, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine · Westbrook, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Care and Share Food Closet · Farmington, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Dempsey Center · South Portland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Farnsworth Art Museum · Rockland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Furniture Friends · Westbrook, ME · 2025
Program expansion
$5,000
Goodwill Industries of Northern New England · Gorham, ME · 2025
Snap employment & training
$5,000
Gulf of Maine Research Institute · Portland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Healthy Island Project · Stonington, ME · 2025
Food security programs
$5,000
Homeless Services of Aroostook · Presque Isle, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Locker Project · Portland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Maine Association for the Education of Young Children · Augusta, ME · 2025
Teach early education maine program
$5,000
Maine Historical Society · Portland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Maine Public · Lewiston, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Maine Seacoast Mission · Northeast Harbor, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Merryspring Nature Center · Camden, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Methodist Conference Home · Rockland, ME · 2025
General operating support
$5,000
Mid-Coast Recovery Coalition · Camden, ME · 2025
General operating support

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