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Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
217
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$5.0MHuman Services$4.9MHealth$3.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.1MArts & Culture$2.7MFood & Nutrition$1.9MHousing & Shelter$955kYouth Development$496kOther$0
02FY2024 · 217 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k54 grants · $254k
  • $10k–50k111 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k50 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIDGTON FOOD PANTRY$800,000
BANGOR REGION YMCA$500,000
PREBLE STREET$75,000
ACLU OF MAINE$50,000
PENOBSCOT VALLEY HOSPITAL$50,000
GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$50,000
ALNA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$50,000
WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL$50,000
FOREST SOCIETY OF MAINE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
YORK HOSPITAL$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY$50,000
UNDERWOOD MEMORIAL LIBRARY$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $10k → 8%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 9%PROGRESS CENTER: $45k → 13%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $50k → 13%SWEETSER: $25k → 9%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 7%LA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $50k → 13%YMCA CENTRAL MAINE: $50k → 13%AK HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES: $50k → 13%MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES: $50k → 13%YMCA CENTRAL MAINE: $40k → 13%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $25k → 11%BIDDEFORD FOOD PANTRY: $50k → 9%BIDDEFORD FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 9%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $20k → 9%AROOSTOOK AGENCY ON AGING: $25k → 15%EASTERN AGENCY ON AGING: $15k → 15%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $25k → 11%WELCOME TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANK: $50k → 15%CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RURAL LIVING: $45k → 15%MAINE INFONET COLLABORATIVE: $30k → 15%PREBLE STREET: $75k → 7%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $500k → 15%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $500k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $50k → 7%PENQUIS CAP: $500k → 15%BANGOR YMCA: $500k → 15%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $500k → 15%BANGOR YMCA: $500k → 15%PREBLE STREET: $40k → 7%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $500k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 15%PREBLE STREET: $25k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE: $25k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BANGOR: $50k → 15%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $50k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 15%MAYO STREET ARTS: $15k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $15k → 7%COMMUNITY CARE: $50k → 15%MAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS: $50k → 15%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $50k → 15%MAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTION: $36k → 15%WAYFINDER SCHOOL: $25k → 7%PENQUIS CAP: $25k → 15%PENQUIS CAP INC: $20k → 15%MAINE VETERANS PROJECT: $15k → 15%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

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 114 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

114 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 173 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
588

Total granted

$10M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+12%

Still filing today

52%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • BY
    BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +173%
  • PC
    PENQUIS CAP INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $545k · revenue +77%
  • University of New England
    2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • AH
    Acadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +107%
  • NH
    NE HISTORIC SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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
Bridgton Public Library

Public library

Education
3
Monhegan Memorial Library

To maintain a library proving lending services to all residents of Monhegan Island, ME.

Education
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
Bangor Public Library Association

To provide free library services to the residents of the bangor area.

—
6
Eastport Public Library

We are a free public library serving the people of eastport, me and the surrounding communities. the population is estimated to be 3,500 people.

Education
7
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…

—
8
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
9
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
10
Bowdoinham Public Library

To provide and maintain a public library which provides free services and programming to the residents of Bowdoinham (pop. c. 3000), lends books and other media, offers educational and reading programs for children, youth and people of all…

Education
11
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
12
Merrill Memorial Library

To provide free public library services to the town of yarmouth, maine and nearby communities.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services; the most unlike its peers is Ogunquit Memorial Library. 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

304 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. 304 of the 876 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.

18
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
71
Early backer (in before they grew)
291/304
Grantees still filing
187/304
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $500,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $300,000 · Other+130 more: $7,302,000 · Other+130 moreBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3,100,000 · Human ServicesBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN …PENQUIS CAP INC: $545,000 · Human ServicesPENQUIS CAP INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $200,000 · Human Services+15 more: $1,001,000 · Human Services+15 moreAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital: $1,000,000 · HealthAcadia Hospita…MABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR: $275,000 · HealthMABEL WADSWORT…CENTRAL MAINE HEALTHCARE CORPORATION: $150,000 · HealthCENTRAL MAINE …COMMONSPACE: $100,000 · Health+16 more: $815,000 · Health+16 moreBRIDGTON FOOD PANTRY: $800,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank: $300,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Farmland Trust: $100,000 · Food & NutritionPISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CENTER: $65,000 · Food & NutritionAUGUSTA FOOD BANK: $61,000 · Food & NutritionTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $50,000 · Food & NutritionUniversity of New England: $500,000 · EducationMILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $75,000 · EducationLUBEC MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $53,500 · EducationGARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EducationWHITEFIELD LIBRARY: $50,000 · EducationJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $50,000 · EducationPORTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EducationHARTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50,000 · EducationTHE FRANKLIN LIBRARY: $50,000 · EducationBERWICK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EducationRICE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50,000 · EducationBangor Area Recovery Network Inc: $40,000 · EducationBANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $90,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE: $85,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $67,000 · Arts & CulturePENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureForest Society of Maine: $75,000 · EnvironmentMAINE ALLCARE: $50,000 · EnvironmentROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $50,000 · Environment
Other$8,102,000Human Services$4,846,000Health$2,340,000Food & Nutrition$1,426,000Education$1,068,500Arts & Culture$567,000Environment$175,000

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 budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3,100,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPENQUIS CAP INC: $545,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of New England: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $500,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $300,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR: $275,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL MAINE HEALTHCARE CORPORATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $140,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONSPACE: $100,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHOME INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $100,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetSHAW HOUSE: $95,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $90,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetYWCA Central Maine: $90,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC: $86,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE: $85,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL POETRY SERIES INC: $80,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING: $75,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetMILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $75,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION: $70,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetBIDDEFORD FOOD PANTRY: $70,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetFOOD AND MEDICINE: $70,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $67,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY MANAGER: $66,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetPISCATAQUIS REGIONAL FOOD CENTER: $65,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetAUGUSTA FOOD BANK: $61,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetLUBEC MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $53,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetSOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWHITEFIELD LIBRARY: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY FAMILY DENTISTRY: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetELLSWORTH FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFISH RIVER RURAL HEALTH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSacopee Valley Health Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAINE ALLCARE: $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BLUE HILL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPenobscot Valley Hospital: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPenobscot Community Health Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Care: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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…Davis Family Foundati…Bangor Savings Bank F…John T Gorman Foundat…Fisher Charitable Fou…Elmina B Sewall Found…Simmons Foundation - …Maine Health Access F…Onion FoundationSam L Cohen FoundationGood Shepherd Food Ba…Morton-Kelly Charitab…
Maine Community Foundation IncME182.6× affinity224 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · 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 Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
64report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc 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 876 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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