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Diakoneint Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$31kHuman Services$25kHousing & Shelter$22kCrime & Legal$21kHealth$15kReligion$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$575k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COMFORT CASES: $3k → 8%NEW BEGINNINGS: $2k → 13%COMFORT CASES: $2k → 8%NEW BEGINNINGS: $2k → 13%COMFORT CASES: $2k → 8%NEW BEGINNINGS: $1k → 13%COMFORT CASES: $2k → 8%FAMILES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 11%NEW BEGINNINGS: $1k → 13%COMFORT CASES: $2k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%FAMILES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Diakoneint Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in ME; by stated purpose, 77%.

Diakoneint Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 19 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
21

Total granted

$103k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-2%

Still filing today

47%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionReligionHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • HA
    HEALTHY ACADIA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +54%
  • CC
    COMFORT CASES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +79%
  • WO
    WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES
    6× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +568%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -78%
  • HR
    HOPE RISING
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • SM
    SAINT MICHAEL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
Preble Street

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.

Human Services
2
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
3
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

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4
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
5
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers

To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.

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6
Making Opportunity Count Inc

Moc's mission is to empower families to achieve economic security by eliminating barriers and creating opportunities.

Human Services
7
Covenant House Alaska

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.

Human Services
8
Citizens Inn Inc

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)

Housing & Shelter
9
Covenant House Michigan

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…

Human Services
10
Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Covenant House New Orleans

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…

Human Services
12
Covenant House Texas

Covenant house texas shelters, protects, and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, and sexually exploited youth.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Home Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 43 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOME INC: $12,500 · OtherHOME INCCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $8,300 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESHOPE RISINGCOURAGELIVES CO SAINT ANDRE HOME: $4,500 · OtherMAINE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & MATH: $4,300 · OtherHOPE RISING: $3,400 · OtherSACRED HEART MAJOR SEMINARY: $3,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES USA: $3,000 · Other+21 more: $27,450 · Other+21 moreCOMFORT CASES INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesCOMFORT CASES I…New Beginnings: $6,000 · Human ServicesNew BeginningsFamilies First Community Center: $3,500 · Human ServicesFamilies First …ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $1,200 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CATH…COVENANT HOUSE: $1,000 · Human ServicesUniversity of Maine Foundation: $15,150 · EducationUniversity o…GOULD ACADEMY: $1,000 · EducationGOULD ACADEM…HEALTHY ACADIA: $11,200 · HealthHEALTHY A…FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC: $1,000 · HealthFAMILY PL…+1 more: $300 · HealthWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES: $7,500 · ReligionFRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA: $3,800 · InternationalLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $3,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$87,450Human Services$21,200Education$16,150Health$12,500Religion$7,500International$3,800Food & Nutrition$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $15,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOME INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHY ACADIA: $11,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew Beginnings: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA: $3,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFamilies First Community Center: $3,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOULD ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINAL SALUTE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9s ON THE FRONT LINE: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY: $250 over 1y, 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.

  • 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 GOULD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds FINAL SALUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…John T Gorman Foundat…Machias Savings Bank …Simmons Foundation - …Franklin Savings Bank…Maine Health Access F…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for Good
Maine Community Foundation IncME21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Diakoneint Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diakoneint Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 43 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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