· Private foundation
The Gb Knecht Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMMAUS HOMELESS CENTER | $12,000 |
| GOOD SHEPARD FOOD BANK | $12,000 |
| DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BANGOR | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| CARE USA | $5,000 |
| WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING | $5,000 |
| MANO EN MANO | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE | $5,000 |
| HEALTHY PENINSULA | $5,000 |
| MAINE PUBLIC | $5,000 |
| BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| WERU | $5,000 |
| JONATHAN FISHER HOUSE MEMORIAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
34 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- CCCatholic Charities Maine5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +11%
Save The Children Federation Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +1%- MPMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- UOUBS OPTIMUS FOUNDATION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- HIHIAS INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +18%
- WFWORLD FOOD PROGRAMMEone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
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…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
The Corporation operates for the purpose of providing medical & health services, including primary & specialized care, through licensed physicians & other health professionals primarily in Lincoln County, Maine. Effective February 5, 2023…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 53 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
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 Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Bangor ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds JONATHAN FISHER MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds ISLAND PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY HOUSING INC ↗
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 · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc
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 The Gb Knecht 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Cornerstone Community Housing Inc — 68% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.