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Colket Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$779k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
92
Grants FY2024
103
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$110,000
Organizations funded a year
97 to 118
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
15
Total assets, FY2024
$14M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Colket Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationEnvironmentHealthAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving87$779k13%
FY2023103$791k7%
FY2022118$751k54%
FY202197$748kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$1.2MHealth$451kEnvironment$242kFood & Nutrition$206kHuman Services$146kRecreation & Sports$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$119kReligion$113kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
ID
MT
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
SC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 143 grantees
All grantees of Colket Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Episcopal Academy$440,00040%
Holderness School$271,00040%
Sun Valley Community School Inc$187,00040%
The Colorado College$155,00040%
Willistown Conservation Trust Inc$139,00041%
Bar Harbor Food Pantry$105,50046%
Summer Search$77,88130%
Keystone Human Services$75,00040%
St David's Center for Spiritual Direction$68,4003n/a
Mount Desert Island Hospital$63,50020%
Maine Seacoast Mission$60,00031%
Community Clothes Charity$53,000280%
Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc$50,38821%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation$45,50030%
Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc$45,00030%
Friends of Acadia$45,00040%
Chester County Food Bank$44,00040%
Mount Desert Nursing Assoc$41,50041%
Saint James School$40,00030%
Island Housing Trust$30,50031%
Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc$30,50030%
Bar Harbor Village Improvement$30,00018%
Jesup Memorial Library$29,00041%
Northeast Harbor Sailing School$28,00031%
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society$26,00020%
Boys & Girls Club of Martin County$25,30040%
St James School$25,0001n/a
Mt Desert Island YMCA$25,00011%
College of Charleston Foundation$25,00010%
Big Sky Community Organization$24,50030%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$24,50040%
Nantucket Community Sailing Inc$23,63040%
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc$22,10040%
Neighborhood House Club$21,50031%
Bar Harbor Firefighters Association$21,0003n/a
Open Table Mdi$20,00016%
Stroud Water Research Center$17,50030%
Community Volunteers in Medicine$16,00040%
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation$15,00030%
1love4animals Inc$15,00030%
Philadelphia Orchestra Association$15,00030%
Friends of the Sawtooth National Forest Avalanche Center Inc$15,00032%
Somesville Landing Corporation$13,000411%
College of the Atlantic$12,00040%
Northeast Harbor Library$10,50040%
Willistown Township Police Association$10,000422%
Radnor Hunt Foundation$10,000133%
Town of Mount Desert Community Development Corporation$10,00012%
Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc$10,00030%
Paoli Fire Company$9,00011%
Cherokee Plantation Charities Inc$8,00043%
YWCA of Mount Desert Island$8,00031%
Riding on Insulin$7,50031%
The Barnes Foundation$7,50030%
The Guardians of Martin County Inc$7,00041%
Gladwyne Fire Company$6,50030%
Mount Desert Island Search & Rescue$6,5003n/a
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$6,00020%
Jupiter Island Medical Clinic Inc$6,00030%
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory$6,00030%
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art$5,50040%
Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc$5,00011%
Bar Harbor Historical Society Inc$5,00031%
Episcopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania$5,00040%
Easter Seals of Southeastern Pa$5,00010%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$5,00010%
Loaves and Fishes of Hobe Sound Inc$5,00032%
Partners for Sacred Places Inc$5,00010%
LifeFlight of Maine LLC$5,00010%
Mount Desert Island Community Saili and Maritime Education Inc$5,00030%
St Marys & St Judes$4,5002n/a
Harbor House Community Service Center$4,10040%
Jupiter Police Foundation Inc$4,00021%
Habitat for Humanity of Martin County Inc$4,00030%
Hobe Sound Child Care Center Inc$4,00020%
Roanoke College$3,00010%
St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc$3,00030%
Christ Memorial Chapel$3,0003n/a
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc$3,00030%
Mount Desert Police Association Inc$3,00035%
Goshen Fire Company$3,00030%
1000 Friends of Florida Inc$3,00030%
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve$3,00030%
Hobart and William Smith Colleges$3,00030%
Project Home$3,00010%
St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc$3,00030%
Sun Valley Fire Department$3,00030%
Bryn Mawr Fire Company$2,50010%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc$2,50010%
Main Line Meals on Wheels Inc$2,30030%
Russell Byers Charter School$2,00020%
Beatrix Farrand Society$2,00040%
Island Readers & Writers an Initiative for Maine Children$2,00040%
The Banner Lake Club Inc$2,00010%
Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music$1,60041%
Mill Reef Fund$1,60030%
Acadia Family Center$1,50030%
Sandhill Cove Foundation Inc$1,50021%
Hospice Volunteers of Hancock County$1,50030%
Forest Society of Maine$1,40040%
Mighty Writers$1,20040%
Abbe Museum$1,20040%
Jupiter Island Historical Society Inc$1,05031%
Our House Nantucket Inc$1,00010%
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia$1,00010%
Save a Friend to Homeless Animals$1,00010%
Jupiter Island Arts Council Inc$1,00010%
Wood River Land Trust Co$1,00010%
Atlantic Classical Orchestra Inc$1,00010%
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc$1,00010%
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc$1,00010%
St Saviours Parish$1,0001n/a
Opera House Arts$1,00010%
Wendell Gilley Museum of Bird Carving$1,00020%
Justin Bartlett Animal Resuce Inc$1,00010%
Mount Desert Nursery School$1,00020%
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Hancock Count$1,00020%
Swans Island Educational Society$1,00031%
Hobe Sound Nature Center Inc$1,00020%
Katahdin Area Council Boy Scouts of America Inc$90030%
Island Connections$90030%
Somesville Village Improvement Society$9003n/a
Kids Corner Inc$90030%
Brandywine Valley Spca$90030%
Mount Desert Summer Chorale$6002n/a
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$60020%
Seal Cove Auto Museum$60020%
The Downeast Horizons Foundation$60020%
Church of the Redeemer$5001n/a
The Holdsworth Center$50010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$50010%
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences$50010%
Peter's Place$50010%
Lutheran Community Services Inc$50010%
Petite Plaisance Conservation Fund$5001n/a
Lower Merion Township Police Pension Association$50010%
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$50010%
Jupiter Island Garden Clubinc$50010%
Natives Helping Natives Inc$30011%
Mount Desert Island Historical Society$30010%
Computer Innovations for Todays Youth Inc$3001n/a
Herring Gut Learning Center$3001n/a
Whyy Inc$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($215k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Colket Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 130 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEpiscopal Academy: $440,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHolderness School: $271,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $187,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Colorado College: $155,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $139,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBar Harbor Food Pantry: $105,500 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSummer Search: $77,881 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKeystone Human Services: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMount Desert Island Hospital: $63,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Clothes Charity: $53,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetHobe Sound Community Chest Inc: $50,388 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation: $45,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDouble H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChester County Food Bank: $44,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMount Desert Nursing Assoc: $41,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSaint James School: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIsland Housing Trust: $30,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $30,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBar Harbor Village Improvement: $30,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetJesup Memorial Library: $29,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNortheast Harbor Sailing School: $28,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Martin County: $25,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMt Desert Island YMCA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCollege of Charleston Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Sky Community Organization: $24,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNantucket Community Sailing Inc: $23,630 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc: $22,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNeighborhood House Club: $21,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOpen Table Mdi: $20,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetStroud Water Research Center: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Volunteers in Medicine: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMedical University of South Carolina Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget1love4animals Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPhiladelphia Orchestra Association: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Sawtooth National Forest Avalanche Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSomesville Landing Corporation: $13,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCollege of the Atlantic: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Harbor Library: $10,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWillistown Township Police Association: $10,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetRadnor Hunt Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTown of Mount Desert Community Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPaoli Fire Company: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCherokee Plantation Charities Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 130.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ethel D Colket FoundationPA117.5× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ethel D Colket Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Florence V Burden Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Fore River Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Hamilton Family Foundation · Legatus Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation

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.

Compare Colket Family Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Colket Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Colket Family 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.

About Colket Family Foundation

How much does Colket Family Foundation give?
Colket Family Foundation reported 92 grants totaling $778,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 97 and 118 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Colket Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (15%), Environment (8%).
Who are Colket Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Episcopal Academy ($440k), Holderness School ($271k), Sun Valley Community School Inc ($187k).
Does Colket Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Colket Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Colket Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ethel D Colket Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc.
Where is Colket Family Foundation based?
Colket Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 180 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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