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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 you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

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

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
UNDERWOOD MEMORIAL LIBRARY$50,000
PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY$50,000
AUGUSTA BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY$50,000
WEST PARIS FIRE DEPARTMENT$50,000
EAST GRAND HEALTH CENTER$50,000
MAINE CENTER FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST$50,000
LEWISTON REGIONAL TECHNICAL CENTER$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
HOME$50,000
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 (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 your 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%MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES: $50k → 13%AK HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES: $50k → 13%YMCA CENTRAL MAINE: $40k → 13%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $25k → 11%BIDDEFORD FOOD PANTRY: $50k → 9%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $20k → 9%AROOSTOOK AGENCY ON AGING: $25k → 15%BIDDEFORD FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 9%EASTERN AGENCY ON AGING: $15k → 15%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $25k → 11%CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RURAL LIVING: $45k → 15%WELCOME TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANK: $50k → 15%MAINE INFONET COLLABORATIVE: $30k → 15%PREBLE STREET: $75k → 7%BANGOR YMCA: $500k → 15%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $500k → 15%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $500k → 15%BANGOR YMCA: $500k → 15%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $500k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $50k → 7%PENQUIS CAP: $500k → 15%PREBLE STREET: $40k → 7%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $500k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 15%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $50k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE: $25k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $25k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $15k → 7%MAYO STREET ARTS: $15k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 15%COMMUNITY CARE: $50k → 15%MAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS: $50k → 15%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BANGOR: $50k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 15%BANGOR REGION YMCA: $50k → 15%MAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTION: $36k → 15%PENQUIS CAP: $25k → 15%WAYFINDER SCHOOL: $25k → 7%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

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you 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%
+14%

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

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

  • BY
    BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +173%
  • PC
    PENQUIS CAP INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $545k · revenue +65%
  • University of New England
    2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • AH
    Acadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +23%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +107%
  • NH
    NE HISTORIC SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $250k

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
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.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services and 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.

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 backsteadyYouth Recreation & Developm…Healthcare & Recovery Servi…Food Pantries and Emergency…Public LibrariesEmergency Medical ServicesCommunity Health & Housing …Fraternal Veterans Organiza…Local History MuseumsRural Community RecreationIndependent Schools and Ear…Youth Sports ProgramsSenior Affordable HousingMaine Statewide Advocacy Or…Affordable Housing Developm…Music & Arts ProgrammingAroostook Regional Health &…Land Conservation TrustsBehavioral Health & Disabil…
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 29 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%6%<5yr12%13%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr18%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%2%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr18%34%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%8/366
the rest of the field
10%
672/7,044

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

304 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
73
Early backer (in before they grew)
291/304
Grantees still filing
186/304
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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+17 more — $855,000 · Health+17 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 · EducationWHITEFIELD LIBRARY — $50,000 · EducationRICE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $50,000 · EducationBERWICK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · EducationJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $50,000 · EducationHARTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY — $50,000 · EducationPORTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · EducationTHE FRANKLIN LIBRARY — $50,000 · EducationGARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · 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 & CultureFRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC — $50,000 · Arts & CulturePENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureForest Society of Maine — $75,000 · EnvironmentROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST — $50,000 · EnvironmentMAINE ALLCARE — $50,000 · Environment
Other$8,102,000Human Services$4,846,000Health$2,380,000Food & Nutrition$1,426,000Education$1,028,500Arts & Culture$567,000Environment$175,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetHOME INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMONSPACE — $100,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $100,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSHAW HOUSE — $95,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $90,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA Central Maine — $90,000 over 2y, 2.9% 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 budgetForest Society of Maine — $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING — $75,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetMILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $75,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetFOOD AND MEDICINE — $70,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION — $70,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetBIDDEFORD FOOD PANTRY — $70,000 over 2y, 22% 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 budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWELCOME TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetRegional Medical Center at Lubec ME Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILIES AND CHILDREN TOGETHER — $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAK HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMAINE DENTAL HEALTH OUT-REACH INC — $50,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetWHITEFIELD LIBRARY — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSt Joseph Hospital — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY FAMILY DENTISTRY — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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 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

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 Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc2% 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc?

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 876 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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