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Kennebunk Savings Bank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$536k
Granted FY2023
39
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$589kHousing & Shelter$342kHealth$299kPhilanthropy$248kEducation$232kEnvironment$135kArts & Culture$135kFood & Nutrition$116kOther$0
02FY2023 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k18 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $341k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $161k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way$61,413
Habitat for Humanity York County$50,000
Fair Tide Inc$50,000
York County Community Action Corp$28,000
Age Friendly Saco$25,000
Great Bay Stewards Inc$25,000
Hope on Haven Hill$25,000
Great Works Regional Land Trust$25,000
United Recovery Fund$25,000
Strawberry Banke Museum$25,000
Southern Maine Agency on Aging$25,000
YMCA of Sanford-Springvale$23,000
New England Electric Railway Historical Society$20,000
Footprints Inc$20,000
SOS Recovery Community Connection$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $493k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Community Action Partnership of Strafford County: $25k → 9%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $25k → 7%York County Community Action Corp: $30k → 9%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $25k → 7%York County Community Action Corp: $28k → 9%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $25k → 7%Waban Projects Inc: $25k → 9%Hospice of Southern Maine: $15k → 7%Community Action Partnership of Strafford County: $5k → 9%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $13k → 7%York County Community Action Corp: $20k → 9%York County Community Action Corp: $20k → 9%Hospice of Southern Maine: $10k → 7%Waban Projects Inc: $20k → 9%Waban Projects Inc: $12k → 9%Caring Unlimited Corp: $10k → 9%York County Community Action Corp: $10k → 9%York County Community Action Corp: $10k → 9%Sober Sisters Recovery: $5k → 9%Step Up Parents: $5k → 5%Caring Unlimited: $5k → 9%United Recovery Fund: $25k → 7%Maine Recovery Fund: $25k → 7%Maine Recovery Fund: $15k → 7%Maine Recovery Fund: $15k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $13k → 7%Age Friendly Saco: $25k → 9%Age Friendly Saco: $11k → 9%Sweetser: $10k → 9%Sweetser: $5k → 9%Sweetser: $5k → 9%Age Friendly Saco: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 40 repeat orgs$843k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
38

Total granted

$1.4M
$615k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+20%

Still filing today

55%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • AH
    AVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $175k · revenue +30%
  • SM
    Southern Maine Agency on Aging
    4× · 2020–2023 · $88k · revenue +46%
  • HO
    HOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of York County
    one grant, 2020 · $59k
  • UW
    United Way of Southern Maine
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
  • SD
    SHA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
2
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
3
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
4
Maine Council on Aging

A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…

Unclassified
5
Quarry Hill

To provide a full range of living options, high-quality health services and individualized care plans designed to respect older adults' varied interests, abilities and needs and promote independence and well-being.

Health
6
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

—
7
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.

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8
Harbor Homes Inc

Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…

Housing & Shelter
9
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
10
Community Health and Nursing Services

Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.

Health
11
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
12
Waldo County General Hospital

Waldo County General Hospital's mission is to be the BEST - Better, Empathy, Service and Teamwork. Our goal is to ensure quality, accessible and affordable health care services and to improve the health and well-being of our community.

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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 Spaulding Center for Active Living. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDiverse Social ServicesDiverse Community Organizat…Maine Community Organizatio…Early Childhood Care and Ed…Local Community & Cultural …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%9%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%9%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
10%
493/5,013

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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 90 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/59
Grantees still filing
37/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

United Way of York County — $59,044 · OtherUnited Way of York CountyUnited Way of Southern Maine — $54,705 · OtherUnited Way of Southern MaineHABITAT FOR HUMANITY YORK COUNTY MAINE — $50,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY YORK COUNTY MAINEYMCA of Sanford-Springvale — $33,000 · OtherAlzheimers Disease & Related Disorders Association — $30,000 · OtherSTRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM — $50,000 · OtherSTRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUMNEW MUSEUM OF PORTSMOUTH INC — $50,000 · OtherNEW MUSEUM OF PORTSMOUTH INCGood Shepherd Food Bank — $67,000 · OtherGood Shepherd Food BankTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE — $47,500 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFEANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $45,000 · Other+44 more — $379,299 · Other+44 moreYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION — $118,000 · Human ServicesYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACT…Southern Maine Agency on Aging — $87,500 · Human ServicesSouthern Maine Agency on …United Recovery Fund — $80,000 · Human ServicesUnited Recovery FundWaypoint Maine Inc — $56,850 · Human ServicesWaypoint Maine IncAGE FRIENDLY SACO — $37,150 · Human ServicesAGE FRIENDLY SACOCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY — $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS…Hospice of Southern Maine — $25,000 · Human ServicesSweetser — $20,000 · Human Services+4 more — $48,000 · Human Services+4 moreAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $175,000 · Housing & ShelterAVESTA HOUSING…Fair Tide — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterFair TideSHA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterSHA DEVELOPMEN…KENNEBUNKPORT HERITAGE HOUSING TRUST — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterKENNEBUNKPORT …HOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC — $85,000 · HealthHOPE ON HA…Greater Seacoast Community Health — $55,000 · HealthGreater Se…York Hospital — $39,000 · HealthYork Hospi…MAINEHEALTH CARE AT HOME — $16,800 · HealthMAINEHEALT…+3 more — $13,500 · Health+3 moreRICE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $36,142 · EducationEARLY LEARNING NEW HAMPSHIRE — $30,000 · EducationPINETREE INSTITUTE — $25,000 · EducationWhite Pine Programs — $10,000 · EducationYork County Community College Foundation — $6,500 · Education+1 more — $3,000 · EducationUnited Way Inc — $120,628 · PhilanthropyKITTERY LAND TRUST INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentGREAT BAY STEWARDS INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentYORK LAND TRUST — $25,000 · EnvironmentGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST — $25,000 · EnvironmentTHREE RIVERS LAND TRUST — $20,000 · Environment
Other$865,548Human Services$502,500Housing & Shelter$280,000Health$209,300Education$160,642Philanthropy$120,628Environment$120,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $175,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way Inc — $120,628 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION — $118,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $87,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC — $85,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUnited Recovery Fund — $80,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $67,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of York County — $59,044 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWaypoint Maine Inc — $56,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Seacoast Community Health — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRICE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $50,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY YORK COUNTY MAINE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEW MUSEUM OF PORTSMOUTH INC — $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetFair Tide — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE — $47,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYork Hospital — $39,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGE FRIENDLY SACO — $37,150 over 3y, 20% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $36,142 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARLY LEARNING NEW HAMPSHIRE — $30,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKITTERY LAND TRUST INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINETREE INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGREAT BAY STEWARDS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYORK LAND TRUST — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSPAULDING CENTER FOR ACTIVE LIVING — $25,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSweetser — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHREE RIVERS LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetFootprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry — $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRICHIE MCFARLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMAINEHEALTH CARE AT HOME — $16,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENNEBUNKPORT HERITAGE HOUSING TRUST — $15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSTEP UP PARENTS — $15,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCARING UNLIMITED — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance — $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Full Maine — $12,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWhite Pine Programs — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARLISLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $9,800 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetYork County Community College Foundation — $6,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetA PLACE TO START — $6,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTable of Plenty — $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetVolunteers of America Northern New England — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…A Caring Community IncSaco & Biddeford Savi…New Hampshire Charita…Elmina B Sewall Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…Virginia Hodgkins Som…Sam L Cohen FoundationUnited Way IncAtlantic Federal Cred…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Foundation for Seacoa…
Maine Community Foundation IncME60.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · A Caring Community Inc · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · United Way Inc · Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Foundation for Seacoast Health

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 Kennebunk 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $690k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

    Source object · view filing

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