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Atwater Kent Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY | $19,000 |
| THE FOOD DEPOT | $7,500 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $7,500 |
| COMMON GOOD SOUP KITCHEN | $7,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ST LOUIS | $6,000 |
| BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| RANKIN JORDEN PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| RANKEN JORDEN PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| WOMENS SAFE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK | $4,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| BI STATE FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| CLOTHES HELPING KIDS INC | $4,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $3,500 |
| MUSE WINSTON-SALEM | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
75 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BHBAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +199%
- OFOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +22%
- BFBuckminster Fuller Institute6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +364%
Funded once
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
- HFHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACHone grant, 2020 · $6k
- TPThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +388%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is Seal Cove Auto Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Buckminster Fuller Institute ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Harbor House Community Service Center ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds MAINE GRANITE INDUSTRY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Edward Marthann Samek Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Philios Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Atwater Kent Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Vermont Historical Society — 51% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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