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Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation at a glance

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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.

$866k
Granted FY2025still arriving
120
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$746kYouth Development$675kHuman Services$556kHealth$552kEnvironment$489kPhilanthropy$419kRecreation & Sports$400kEducation$369kOther$0
02FY2025 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k89 grants · $277k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $539k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,050
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Augusta Colonial Theater$50,000
United Way of Kennebec Valley$47,004
Kennebec Land Trust$45,000
Alfond Youth & Community Center$35,000
Friends of Quarry Road$25,000
Town of Readfield$25,000
Victoria Mansion$25,000
Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center$25,000
Portland Parks Conservatory$25,000
Gardiner Library Association$25,000
CYC Lake Association$22,500
Mitchell Institute$17,000
Annabessacook Lake Improvement Association$16,500
KVCAP - South End Teen Center$15,000
Ember's Paws of Hope$15,000
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%American Red Cross: $1k → 13%Portland Parks Conservatory: $25k → 7%Good Will-Hinckley: $2k → 15%Preble Street: $5k → 7%Preble Street: $5k → 7%Independence Association: $1k → 7%Independence Association: $1k → 7%Emergency Action Network: $1k → 7%Emergency Action Network: $1k → 7%NEIGHBORS DRIVING NEIGHBORS: $10k → 12%Emergency Action Network: $1k → 7%Neighbors Driving Neighbors: $3k → 12%Emergency Action Network: $1k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $6k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $5k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $5k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 7%Neighbors Driving Neighbors: $3k → 12%Freeport Community Services: $2k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 7%Spectrum Generations: $10k → 12%FAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $10k → 12%The Maine Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program: $1k → 12%The Maine Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program: $1k → 12%YMCA Camp of Maine: $50k → 12%YMCA Camp of Maine: $15k → 12%YMCA Camp of Maine: $5k → 12%KVCAP: $5k → 12%KVCAP: $2k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 104 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
79

Total granted

$3.8M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+0%

Still filing today

68%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $376k · revenue +8%
  • AY
    ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +138%
  • TC
    The Childrens Center
    4× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • CC
    Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Support
    one grant, 2021 · $115k · revenue +17%
  • WC
    WATERVILLE CREATESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • CT
    COLONIAL THEATRE
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
4
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Maine Media College

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…

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6
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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7
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
8
Maine Tourism Association

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.

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9
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
10
Sail Maine

To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.

Arts & Culture
11
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust

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.

Environment
12
Maine & Company

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine; 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.
04the grantee network

128 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
126/128
Grantees still filing
71/128
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MaineGeneral Health: $316,329 · OtherMaineGeneral HealthKennebec Valley YMCA: $159,000 · OtherKennebec Valley YMCAFIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM: $155,000 · OtherCOLONIAL THEATRE: $100,000 · OtherChildren's Center Early Intervention & Family Support: $115,000 · Other+143 more: $2,132,588 · Other+143 moreALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $365,000 · Youth DevelopmentALFOND YO…BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY: $81,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS&GIRL…+2 more: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY: $375,786 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…Foundation for Portland Public Schools: $30,000 · PhilanthropyFoundatio…+1 more: $8,000 · PhilanthropyThe Childrens Center: $167,500 · EducationSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $54,500 · EducationEDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE: $52,500 · EducationGARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · EducationAwesome Bear Society: $25,000 · EducationMaine Arts Academy: $25,000 · EducationNATIONAL DIGITAL EQUITY CENTER: $15,000 · Education+6 more: $43,000 · EducationCOBBOSSEECONTEE LAKE ASSOCIATION: $102,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE COBBOSSEE WATERSHED: $78,500 · EnvironmentTHE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST: $61,000 · EnvironmentROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $43,500 · EnvironmentViles Arboretum: $43,500 · EnvironmentWorromontogus Lake Association: $35,000 · Environment+8 more: $38,000 · EnvironmentWATERVILLE CREATES: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $27,500 · Arts & CultureJohnson Hall Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureVictoria Mansion: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING: $22,500 · Arts & CultureREADFIELD UNION MEETING HOUSE CO: $13,200 · Arts & CultureMEETINGHOUSE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Starling Hall Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture317 Main St Community Center Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $26,000 · Arts & CultureKENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $250,000 · Animals+1 more: $7,000 · Animals
Other$2,977,917Youth Development$457,000Philanthropy$413,786Education$407,500Environment$402,000Arts & Culture$269,200Animals$257,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY: $375,786 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $365,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $250,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetThe Childrens Center: $167,500 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetKennebec Valley YMCA: $159,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetChildren's Center Early Intervention & Family Support: $115,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOBBOSSEECONTEE LAKE ASSOCIATION: $102,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetWATERVILLE CREATES: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY: $81,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COBBOSSEE WATERSHED: $78,500 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST: $61,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetAUGUSTA FOOD BANK: $54,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $54,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE: $52,500 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetCAMP KV FOR KIDS: $50,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $43,500 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetViles Arboretum: $43,500 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetTEDFORD HOUSING: $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWorromontogus Lake Association: $35,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetWATERVILLE AREA SOUP KITCHEN: $34,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMaine GearShare: $33,500 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $33,200 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MID-MAINE: $30,501 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine: $29,687 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $27,850 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $27,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetMid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc: $26,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPortland Parks Conservancy: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJohnson Hall Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetVictoria Mansion: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFriends of Quarry Road: $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetKennebec Valley Community College Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMaine Arts Academy: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAUGUSTA DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBEARNSTOW: $22,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING: $22,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $18,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMaine Appalachian Trail Club: $16,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $16,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL DIGITAL EQUITY CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORS DRIVING NEIGHBORS: $15,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetKENNEBEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetGARDINER MAIN STREET: $14,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetREADFIELD UNION MEETING HOUSE CO: $13,200 over 3y, 5.4% 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 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 TEDFORD HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds Worromontogus Lake Association ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Onion FoundationElsie & William Viles…Davis Family Foundati…Bangor Savings Bank F…Elmina B Sewall Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Franklin Savings Bank…Bill and Joan Alfond …Sam L Cohen FoundationFisher Charitable Fou…Morton-Kelly Charitab…
Maine Community Foundation IncME116.6× affinity89 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kennebec Savings Bank 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 230 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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