· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M 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
- BYBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +173%
- PCPENQUIS CAP INC3× · 2018–2022 · $545k · revenue +65%
University of New England2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- AHAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +23%
- NENEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +107%
- NHNE HISTORIC SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $250k
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.
Public library
To maintain a library proving lending services to all residents of Monhegan Island, ME.
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…
To provide free library services to the residents of the bangor area.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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; 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 BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Acadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital ↗
- Who funds BRIDGTON FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds PENQUIS CAP INC ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MAINE HEALTHCARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONSPACE ↗
- Who funds BANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds SHAW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds YWCA Central Maine ↗
- Who funds MAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POETRY SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Society of Maine ↗
- Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING ↗
- Who funds MILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FOOD AND MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION ↗
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 · 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.
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
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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