Improving Lives Throughout Southern Maine
Supporting Arts & Culture
Supporting Arts & Culture
Strengthening Community
Strengthening Community
Investing in Education
Investing in Education
Advancing Health & Well-being for All!
Advancing Health & Well-being for All!
Sustaining Jewish Culture & Tradition
Sustaining Jewish Culture & Tradition
Supporting Arts & Culture
Supporting Arts & Culture
Strengthening Community
Strengthening Community
Investing in Education
Investing in Education
Advancing Health & Well-being for All!
Advancing Health & Well-being for All!
Sustaining Jewish Culture & Tradition
Sustaining Jewish Culture & Tradition

The Sam L. Cohen Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that strives to ensure that all people have the opportunity to develop their potential and provide healthy, productive futures for themselves, their families, and their communities.

Our work is based on these three core beliefs:
Everyone deserves an opportunity to have a fulfilling and productive future;
Family and community are of utmost importance in life; and
Giving back to one’s community is a fundamental value.

Our Five Program Areas For Grants
Our grant-making is concentrated on nonprofit organizations in southern Maine working in these five areas:
Arts & Culture

Promoting the teaching and practice of music, dance, theater, visual arts and creative writing to enrich and enhance quality of life and community.

Civic & Community

Advancing opportunity and quality of life for underserved and marginalized populations by strengthening the social and economic fabric of our communities.

Education

Spanning the entire continuum—pre-K through college and adulthood—of this single most important investment that a community can make in its citizens and its future.

Health & Human Services

Expanding access and choices for vulnerable and low-income individuals and families by strengthening human services organizations and promoting new responses to challenges in the sector.

Jewish Culture & Traditions

Practicing “Tzedekah”— the act of giving help to others—through support of institutions and programs that preserve Jewish education, tradition, and culture in southern Maine.