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Ethel D Colket Foundation at a glance

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Ethel D Colket Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$659k
Granted FY2021
72
Grants FY2021
10
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$1.8MHealth$176kHuman Services$133kHousing & Shelter$129kArts & Culture$116kReligion$99kEnvironment$98kPublic Safety & Disaster$83kOther$0
02FY2021 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k60 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $338k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THUNDER DRAGON FUND: $5k → 7%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $600 → 11%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $300 → 11%HOBE SOUND EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $300 → 10%OPERATION WARM: $8k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $200 → 6%WOMEN'S WAY: $5k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $500 → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 22%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND YMCA: $51k → 11%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND YMCA: $48k → 11%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND YMCA: $3k → 11%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $300 → 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

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WA
ID
MT
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PA
NJ
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CA
CO
KY
VA
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DE
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NC
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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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 135 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135
54

Total granted

$1.9M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+34%

Still filing today

59%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    THE COLORADO COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $236k · revenue +39%
  • EA
    Episcopal Academy
    4× · 2017–2021 · $186k · revenue +42%
  • IH
    ISLAND HOUSING TRUST
    4× · 2017–2021 · $114k · revenue +344%

Funded once

  • MD
    MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +200%
  • Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +375%
  • QL
    QUEBEC LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
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
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
2
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
3
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
5
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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6
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

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7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
11
Harbor School

Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.

Education
12
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc; 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

121 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. 121 of the 212 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)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/121
Grantees still filing
94/121
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $963,761 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIATHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $235,936 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGEEpiscopal Academy: $186,356 · EducationEpiscopal AcademyJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $104,315 · EducationJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARYACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $69,113 · EducationHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $68,437 · Education+16 more: $84,106 · EducationFRIENDS OF ACADIA BENEFIT COMMITTEE: $74,837 · OtherFRIENDS OF ACADIA BENEFIT COMMITTE…ST DAVID'S CHURCH: $60,300 · OtherST DAVID'S CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $54,711 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $52,376 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMaine Seacoast Mission: $35,323 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $35,130 · OtherCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $32,000 · OtherHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $33,800 · Other+125 more: $572,513 · Other+125 moreMt Desert Island YMCA: $101,637 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $8,100 · Human ServicesEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania: $6,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS WAY: $5,500 · Human ServicesTHUNDER DRAGON FUND INC: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,900 · Human ServicesISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $114,376 · Housing & ShelterJUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC: $26,500 · EnvironmentWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $26,500 · EnvironmentForest Society of Maine: $6,300 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $5,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Acadia: $5,000 · EnvironmentSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: $4,500 · Environment1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $3,250 · Environment+6 more: $10,300 · EnvironmentMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC: $25,644 · HealthJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $12,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,124 · HealthRIDING ON INSULIN: $8,000 · HealthMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $6,750 · HealthEASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA: $5,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $3,300 · Health+6 more: $7,900 · HealthPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $26,400 · Arts & CultureMount Desert Festival of Chamber Music: $10,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $9,100 · Arts & CultureBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $7,600 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $3,000 · Arts & CultureBEATRIX FARRAND SOCIETY: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,712,024Other$950,990Human Services$129,137Housing & Shelter$114,376Environment$90,850Health$78,718Arts & Culture$66,600

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $963,761 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $235,936 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $186,356 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $114,376 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $104,315 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMt Desert Island YMCA: $101,637 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $69,113 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $68,437 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $48,006 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $35,323 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $33,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAOLI FIRE COMPANY: $29,275 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC: $26,500 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $26,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $26,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC: $25,644 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM: $10,800 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAcadia Family Center: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMount Desert Festival of Chamber Music: $10,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOMESVILLE LANDING CORPORATION: $10,400 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $9,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHEROKEE PLANTATION CHARITIES INC: $9,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $8,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDING ON INSULIN: $8,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $7,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $6,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $6,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLISTOWN TOWNSHIP POLICE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetACADIAN YOUTH SPORTS AYS: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHUNDER DRAGON FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY: $4,700 over 4y, 0.7% 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 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 Acadia Family Center ↗
  • Who funds Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOMESVILLE LANDING CORPORATION ↗

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.

Colket Family Foundat…Maine Community Found…Fore River FoundationCornelia Cogswell Ros…E Newbold & Margaret …Florence V Burden Fou…Hamilton Family Found…The Medway Charitable…Gerrish H Milliken Fo…The Widgeon Point Cha…The David and Elizabe…Hattie a and Fred C L…
Colket Family FoundationPA117.5× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to Ethel D Colket 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 212 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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