· Private foundation
Ethel D Colket Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k60 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $338k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL ACADEMY THE | $104,650 |
| ISLAND HOUSING TRUST | $102,376 |
| JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $78,515 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,376 |
| HORIZONS AT EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $41,420 |
| SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $36,683 |
| JUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUB | $25,500 |
| MAINE SEACOAST MISSION | $25,000 |
| BAR HARBOR FIRE DEPARTMENT | $17,495 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,743 |
| HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST | $15,000 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE | $10,490 |
| PAOLI FIRE COMPANY | $9,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $8,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MARTIN COUNTY | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
135 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2021, 85 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE4× · 2017–2021 · $236k · revenue +39%
- EAEpiscopal Academy4× · 2017–2021 · $186k · revenue +42%
- IHISLAND HOUSING TRUST4× · 2017–2021 · $114k · revenue +334%
Funded once
- MDMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +200%
Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +278%- QLQUEBEC LABRADOR FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $18k
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.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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 institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc 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 51 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
121 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. 121 of the 212 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Mt Desert Island YMCA ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds PAOLI FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC ↗
- Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Acadia Family Center ↗
- Who funds SOMESVILLE LANDING CORPORATION ↗
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: Colket Family Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fore River Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) · Florence V Burden Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Medway Charitable Trust · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust
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 Ethel D Colket 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.
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- The Hun School of Princeton — 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.
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