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Atwater Kent Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$170kEnvironment$121kHealth$98kArts & Culture$84kHuman Services$73kAnimals$62kHousing & Shelter$31kScience & Tech$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$3,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
RANKEN JORDEN PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL$5,000
RANKIN JORDEN PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL$5,000
BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE$5,000
WOMENS SAFE HOUSE$5,000
ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK$4,500
BI STATE FOOD PANTRY$4,000
CLOTHES HELPING KIDS INC$4,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$4,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$3,500
THE ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FOOD DEPOT: $8k → 12%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $4k → 21%THE FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $3k → 21%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $3k → 21%THE FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $3k → 21%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $2k → 11%WILLIAM WAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 22%WILLIAM WAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 22%WILLIAM WAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 22%WILLIAM WAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 22%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%WILLIAM WAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 22%WILLIAM WAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 22%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MO
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$688k · 75 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
19

Total granted

$688k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+42%

Still filing today

69%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BH
    BAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +199%
  • OF
    OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +22%
  • BF
    Buckminster Fuller Institute
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +364%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
  • HF
    HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • TP
    The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +388%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

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.

Environment
5
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
6
National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment
7
Naples Zoo Inc

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…

Animals
8
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
9
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
10
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
11
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

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,…

Animals
12
Balboa Park Conservancy

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees; 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.
04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
48/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMON GOOD SOUP KITCHEN: $35,000 · OtherCOMMON GOOD SOUP KITCHENIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBuckminster Fuller Institute: $24,000 · OtherBuckminster Fuller InstituteWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $11,500 · OtherARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $11,500 · Other+50 more: $236,750 · Other+50 moreMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $22,500 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heri…WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $18,500 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLI…NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $18,000 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO WILDE…ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $11,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WO…OCEANA INC: $9,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCOUTWARD BOUND INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentOUTWARD BOUND IN…Earth Island Institute Inc: $7,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Ins…DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Acadia: $5,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $4,000 · Environment+2 more: $4,500 · EnvironmentBAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY: $42,000 · Food & NutritionBAR HARBOR FOO…OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $29,500 · Food & NutritionOPERATION FOOD…ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC: $22,500 · Food & NutritionROADRUNNER FOO…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $8,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $23,000 · HealthST JUDE CHI…The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $14,000 · HealthThe Ranken-…MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $13,000 · HealthMOUNT DESER…Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers: $9,000 · HealthReproductiv…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $8,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S …CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $6,500 · HealthCHILD CENTE…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,500 · HealthLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $3,000 · HealthTHE FOOD DEPOT: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE: $14,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $11,500 · Human ServicesWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesISLAND CONNECTIONS: $7,000 · Human ServicesTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE GRANITE INDUSTRY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,500 · Arts & CultureThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $11,500 · AnimalsTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $9,500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $9,000 · AnimalsESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 · AnimalsALBUQUERQUE KENNEL KOMPADRES INC: $4,000 · AnimalsSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · AnimalsAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $2,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · Animals
Other$336,750Environment$112,500Food & Nutrition$102,500Health$80,500Human Services$57,500Arts & Culture$44,500Animals$44,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY: $42,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $29,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBuckminster Fuller Institute: $24,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM: $10,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHarbor House Community Service Center: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetISLAND CONNECTIONS: $7,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE GRANITE INDUSTRY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES HELPING KIDS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUSE WINSTON-SALEM: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $6,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRanken Jordan Pediatric Hospital Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Maine Community Found…Hattie a and Fred C L…St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…Colket Family Foundat…Santa Fe Community Fo…Employees Community F…The Edward Marthann S…Ethel D Colket Founda…World Wide Technology…Commerce Bancshares F…The Philios Foundatio…
Maine Community Foundation IncME22× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Atwater Kent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Atwater Kent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Atwater Kent Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Atwater Kent Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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