· Private foundation
Diakoneint Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE RISINGCOURAGELIVES CO SAINT ANDRE HOME | $4,500 |
| HEALTHY ACADIA | $3,500 |
| HOME | $3,000 |
| WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES | $2,700 |
| COMFORT CASES | $2,500 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $1,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MSYM SCHOLARSHIPS | $1,700 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $1,000 |
| SACRED HEART MAJOR SEMINARY | $500 |
| MAINE FAMILY PLANNING | $500 |
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 (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Diakoneint Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in ME; read by stated purpose it is 77% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- HAHEALTHY ACADIA5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +54%
- CCCOMFORT CASES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +79%
- WOWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES6× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +568%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF KAKAMEGAone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -78%
- HRHOPE RISINGone grant, 2018 · $3k
- SMSAINT MICHAEL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.
To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.
Moc's mission is to empower families to achieve economic security by eliminating barriers and creating opportunities.
Covenant house alaska is part of covenant house, inc. the largest privately funded agency in the americas providing shelter and other services to homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth.
The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)
Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…
Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…
Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…
Covenant house texas shelters, protects, and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, and sexually exploited youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is K9s On the Front Line. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 43 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 University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ACADIA ↗
- Who funds COMFORT CASES INC ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds New Beginnings ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA ↗
- Who funds Families First Community Center ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GOULD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds FINAL SALUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
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 Diakoneint Foundation Inc 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.
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% 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.