Accepts applications
Can I apply?
Accepts applications
The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it accepts applications. Read the instructions below before you write.
- How to apply
The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it accepts applications. Read the instructions below before you write.
Application policy: Accepts applications, as stated on the FY2025 return.
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
This is a count from past returns. It does not say the foundation will consider a new request. How it is counted: names are compared as written on the returns, without "The" at the start, without endings such as "Inc" or "LLC", and without spaces and punctuation. A recipient also counts as already listed when our records link it to the same organization as an earlier recipient, or when its name is almost the same as an earlier name (a trigram similarity of 0.8 or more, where 1 means identical). The state on the grant row is not compared. Grants that the foundation marked as paid to an individual, such as a scholarship, are left out of both numbers, and no count is shown when most of its grants are marked that way. A person whom the foundation did not mark as an individual is still counted as a recipient. A recipient can still look new when its name is written very differently from year to year, and two different recipients with almost the same name can be counted as one.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
No parsed e-filed return is on record for this organization yet, so year-by-year financials are not available.
Asset, income and revenue figures come from the IRS master file (the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File), a coarse annual extract. Year-by-year figures appear once the organization's e-filed returns are in the database.
Recipient focus areas
Where recipients are
Based on the 45% of grant rows we could match to an organization record. The rest stay as reported. The IRS assigns the NTEE category when it grants exemption. It often reflects the original filing, not today's giving.
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount | Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| See attached list of recipientsVarious, ME | Scholarship Award | $147,800 | 2016 | |
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed. Some links come from other funders' returns: when three or more of them wrote the same name and state with one EIN, and the city on this row matches, we use that EIN. The name on this row is still shown as this funder wrote it.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Bossie | Executive Director | 5.00 | $17,251 |
| Amie Belyea | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Tina Condon | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Ruth Ann Cowger | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Jake Cowperthwaite | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Pat Cunningham | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Karen Donato | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Fawn Dunphy | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Lynda Foren-Turner | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Debbie Melvin | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Travis Watson | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Chelsey Weeks | Director (end 2025) | 0.25 | $0 |
| Leigh Cummings | Chair | 0.25 | $0 |
| Cynthia Thompson | Vice Chair | 0.25 | $0 |
| Greg Sherman | Treasurer | 0.25 | $0 |
| Martha Bell | Secretary | 0.25 | $0 |
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
| Scholarship Program |
| $82,000 |
| 2023 |
| University of MaineOrono, ME | Scholarship Program | $73,300 | 2024 |
| University of MaineOrono, ME | Scholarship Program | $58,000 | 2025 |
| See attached list of recipientsVarious, ME | Scholarship Award | $55,500 | 2016 |
| Husson UniversityBangor, ME | Scholarship Program | $42,500 | 2023 |
| University of MaineOrono, ME | Scholarship Program | $42,500 | 2022 |
| University of MaineOrono, ME | Scholarship Program | $40,500 | 2020 |
| Husson UniversityBangor, ME | Scholarship Program | $34,000 | 2025 |
| Husson UniversityBangor, ME | Scholarship Program | $29,500 | 2024 |
| Husson UniversityBangor, ME | Scholarship Program | $28,500 | 2020 |
| University of Maine at Presque IslePresque Isle, ME | Scholarship Program | $22,800 | 2023 |
| University of Maine at Presque IslePresque Isle, ME | Scholarship Program | $22,000 | 2024 |
| University of Maine at Presque IslePresque Isle, ME | Scholarship Program | $20,000 | 2025 |
| Husson UniversityBangor, ME | Scholarship Program | $19,300 | 2021 |
| Husson UniversityBangor, ME | Scholarship Program | $17,500 | 2022 |
| University of New EnglandBiddeford, ME | Scholarship Program | $13,000 | 2023 |
| University of New EnglandBiddeford, ME | Scholarship Program | $12,000 | 2025 |
| Thomas CollegeWaterville, ME | Scholarship Program | $12,000 | 2023 |
| Thomas CollegeWaterville, ME | Scholarship Program | $12,000 | 2024 |
| University of MaineOrono, ME | Scholarship Program | $11,500 | 2021 |
| University of Southern MainePortland, ME | Scholarship Program | $10,500 | 2023 |
| Thomas CollegeWaterville, ME | Scholarship Program | $10,500 | 2022 |
| University of Maine at Presque IslePresque Isle, ME | Scholarship Program | $10,500 | 2020 |
| University of Maine at AugustaMatched to this organization because 4 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2021 to 2024. Counted Oct 9, 2026.Augusta, ME | Scholarship Program | $10,000 | 2023 |
Nearest by size, location and giving pattern in the database. Geography weighs heavily. Treat it as a starting list, not a ranking of fit.
Form 990-PF · FY2024 · period ending Dec 31, 2024IRS bulk XML
Filing id 202533149349101238
Form 990-PF · FY2023 · period ending Dec 31, 2023IRS bulk XML
Filing id 202420859349100517
Form 990-PF · FY2022 · period ending Dec 31, 2022
Filing id 202321259349100502
Form 990-PF · FY2021 · period ending Dec 31, 2021
Filing id 202231369349103403
Form 990-PF · FY2020 · period ending Dec 31, 2020
Filing id 202100879349100200
Form 990-PF · FY2016 · period ending Dec 31, 2016
Filing id 201711449349100101
IRS filings are the source for every fact on this page. Nothing a model writes is ever a source; it can only point at a row here.