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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 46-3733695

Paul and Helen Goransson Charitable Foundation

A private foundation in Eliot, ME. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 10 grants and $90,012 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact person
On file
Phone
On file
Mailing address
On file
Form and materials
On file
Deadlines
None
Restrictions
Scholarships are awarded to high school seniors based on scholarship need, merit, community service, athletic interests and other specified criteria and essay.

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Assets and giving by year

7 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $90,012

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $1,068,333

  • Tax year 2024

    $47,762

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $1,015,793

  • Tax year 2023

    $62,532

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $964,965

  • Tax year 2022

    $62,212

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $831,122

  • Tax year 2021

    $129,012

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $698,586

  • Tax year 2020

    $93,661

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $697,471

  • Tax year 2019

    $37,087

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $587,537

Grants paid in 2025

10 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Seacoast Repertory TheatrePortsmouth, NH

    Charitable contribution

    $35,000
  2. Swallow Union SchoolDunstable, MA

    Charitable contribution

    $15,000
  3. Holy Trinity ChurchNewington, NH

    Charitable contribution

    $13,012
  4. Peyton EmerySouth Berwick, ME

    Educational scholarship

    $5,000
  5. Shelby AndersonRollinsford, NH

    Educational scholarship

    $5,000
  6. Annika ObergEliot, ME

    Educational scholarship

    $5,000
  7. Pearl WynneSouth Berwick, ME

    Educational scholarship

    $5,000
  8. Great Works Regional Land TrustOgunquit, ME

    Charitable contribution

    $3,500
  9. Mis Pequenos Telentos- Eliot RotarySouth Berwick, ME

    Charitable contribution

    $3,000
  10. Life and Hope School HaitiWest Babylon, NY

    Charitable contribution

    $500

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Arts and culture1 grant $35,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New Hampshire3 grants $53,012
  2. Maine5 grants $21,500
  3. Massachusetts1 grant $15,000
  4. New York1 grant $500

Officers, directors and trustees

4 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Paul N GoranssonPRESIDENT Hours 0Pay $0
  • Helen GoranssonVICE PRESIDENT Hours 0Pay $0
  • Peter A GoranssonTREASURER Hours 0Pay $0
  • Jennifer G GoranssonSECRETARY Hours 0Pay $0

The return

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