About Hannaford Charitable Foundation
The Hannaford Charitable Foundation focuses on strengthening community infrastructure in Maine, concentrating major gifts on regional United Way campaigns, youth-serving organizations, and local health care institutions. Grants are large and strategic, aimed at broad-impact organizations that deliver services across Southern and greater Maine rather than small, specialized programs. The foundation appears to prioritize community-wide outcomes—basic health, youth development, and recreational access—through a small number of substantial awards to recognizable regional institutions.
Focus Areas
United Way–led community impact and regional funders in Southern MaineAfterschool and youth development organizations (Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine)Regional hospital and health system support (Maine Medical Center / MaineHealth)Community recreation and wellness through local YMCAs (Bangor Region YMCA)
Who They Fund
hospitals (Saratoga Hospital, Glens Falls Hospital)regional patient populations in the Saratoga/Glens Falls areacommunity residents served by those hospitals
About Hannaford Charitable Foundation
A defining feature of the Hannaford Charitable Foundation is its use of large, repeated general operating grants to a small set of regional organizations. In the most recent grants, United Way of Southern Maine received $350,000 in 2023, 2024, and 2025, while Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine received $250,000 in 2025. That pattern points to a funder that backs community institutions with broad reach rather than isolated projects. The foundation’s giving is built around community infrastructure in Maine and nearby states, with support for health care, youth development, food access, and local human services. Its largest recent awards also include MaineHealth, Dempsey Centers for Quality Cancer Care, Vermont Foodbank, and Preble Street, all funded at levels that suggest institutional support. The grants are framed as general operating support, which gives recipients flexibility to cover core expenses rather than a single restricted program. Across the recent record, the Hannaford Charitable Foundation appears to favor organizations that serve whole communities: United Way campaigns, regional hospital systems, afterschool providers, and food banks. That mix shows a grantmaker oriented toward everyday service capacity, especially where a local nonprofit or regional network is central to community well-being.
What Hannaford Charitable Foundation Funds
In community-impact work, the foundation gave $350,000 to United Way of Southern Maine for general operating support in 2025, building on similar awards in 2023 and 2024. It also supported community-based youth programming with $250,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine in 2025. Health care is another clear theme. The foundation awarded $240,000 to MaineHealth for general operating support in 2023, and later gave $100,000 to Dempsey Centers for Quality Cancer Care in 2025. Those grants align with support for regional health institutions and community health capacity. Food access and basic needs also appear in the recent grants list. The foundation provided $100,000 to Preble Street in 2023 and $50,000 to Footprints Inc, also known as Footprints Food Pantry, in both 2024 and 2025. It further supported housing and emergency needs with $50,000 to Tedford Housing in 2025.
How Hannaford Charitable Foundation Gives
Typical grant size clusters in the middle-to-large range, with a p25 of $25,000, a median of $50,000, and a p75 of $69,808. Recent awards are mostly general operating support, and the same recipients appear across multiple years, including United Way of Southern Maine, Bangor Region YMCA, Scholarship America Inc, Footprints Inc, and Boys and Girls Club of Augusta Maine. That recurring pattern suggests ongoing institutional relationships rather than one-time project funding. The foundation does not fund individuals and does not make program-related investments. An active community-grants program branded as Hannaford Helps is listed, and it does not accept unsolicited applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1.4M
Total Assets
$1.1M
Total Revenue
$1.4M
Total Expenses
$1.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $25K and $70K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$25K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$70K
Geographic Reach
Regional6 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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