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Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k89 grants · $277k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $539k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Augusta Colonial Theater | $50,000 |
| United Way of Kennebec Valley | $47,004 |
| Kennebec Land Trust | $45,000 |
| Alfond Youth & Community Center | $35,000 |
| Gardiner Library Association | $25,000 |
| Friends of Quarry Road | $25,000 |
| Victoria Mansion | $25,000 |
| Town of Readfield | $25,000 |
| Portland Parks Conservatory | $25,000 |
| Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center | $25,000 |
| CYC Lake Association | $22,500 |
| Mitchell Institute | $17,000 |
| Annabessacook Lake Improvement Association | $16,500 |
| YMCA Camp of Maine | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 61% 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
104 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 47 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY8× · 2017–2025 · $376k · revenue +8%
- AYALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +138%
- TCThe Childrens Center4× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- CCChildren's Center Early Intervention & Family Supportone grant, 2021 · $115k · revenue +17%
- CTCOLONIAL THEATREone grant, 2017 · $100k
- WCWATERVILLE CREATESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +26%
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.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
The Association's primary mission is to keep the tourism insdustry sustainable by providing visitors and residents with tourism information, to develop travel, tourism, and advocacy, and to promote workforce development in Maine.
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.
The mission of the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust is to conserve, restore, and instill appreciation of the land and water resources of the Kennebec Estuary for the benefit of today's communities and future generations.
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine and the most unlike its peers is Camp Kv for Kids. 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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
128 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. 128 of the 230 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 UNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds Kennebec Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Support ↗
- Who funds COBBOSSEECONTEE LAKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WATERVILLE CREATES ↗
- Who funds BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COBBOSSEE WATERSHED ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE ↗
- Who funds CAMP KV FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Viles Arboretum ↗
- Who funds Worromontogus Lake Association ↗
- Who funds TEDFORD HOUSING ↗
- Who funds WATERVILLE AREA SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Maine GearShare ↗
- Who funds FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID-MAINE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Portland Public Schools ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
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 · Onion Foundation · Elsie & William Viles Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable 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 Kennebec Savings Bank 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.
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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