Maine Health Access Foundation

• Maine Health Access Foundation funds work that promotes access to quality health care and improves health in Maine, with a focus on equitable access and community-led solutions, including rural health, older adults, behavioural health and maternal and child health; its geographic focus is Maine, so work elsewhere is not a fit.
• Most grants are modest: about 8 in 10 of its 380 grants fall between $2,000 and $92,500, with a median of $30,000, so a request of a similar size is realistic, though the largest grant was around $460,000.
• Smaller, programme-specific routes also exist: Discretionary Grants are capped at $10,000, and Meeting Support grants are capped at $1,000 for community or regional meetings and $2,000 for statewide conferences and meetings.
• Applications for Discretionary Grants, Community Responsive Grants and Systems Improvement and Innovation Grants begin with a Letter of Inquiry, with only a subset invited to submit a full application, so expect a competitive first stage; Meeting Support requests must go in at least six weeks before the meeting, and the SIIRG Request for Proposals opens each January.
• A large share of grant dollars (82%) has gone to organisations already funded in the foundation's two previous filings, so relationships with existing grantees matter, and applicants should check their project against the foundation's exclusions, which rule out direct care costs, public awareness campaigns focused on a specific disease, fundraising efforts, capital expenditures, academic or graduate research, and grants or scholarships to individuals, with Meeting Support also excluding operational costs, training for individual staff members, and events that function primarily as fundraisers.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Maine Council on Aging · Care Acess; Hlth Advocacy; BH Needs; MSP Enrollmt; Summit; Ageism
  $288,4202024 tax year
• Maine Community Foundation · Oral Hlth, BIPOC, Equity, and SUD Funds;Investing in Ldrs;MeHAF DAF
  $233,0002024 tax year
• Maine Initiatives · Health Advocacy; Nova Grant
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Spurwink Services · Addiction Collab Pilot; Continuity support for acquisition of TCMHS
  $150,0002024 tax year
• Consumers for Affordable Health Care · PHE Unwinding Support; Health Advocacy, MSP Enrollment
  $135,0002024 tax year
• New England Arab American Organization · Health Equity Capacity;HECB collab grants;Kindred Hearts;MotherComfort
  $134,0002024 tax year
• Mid-Coast Health Net (Knox County Health Clinic) · Safety Net access to care; Preparing NAP application
  $120,0002024 tax year
• Maine Equal Justice · Health Advocacy; Demographic research; MSP Enrollment
  $110,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.