Maine · Private foundation
The Gb Knecht Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $125k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 36
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Gb Knecht Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $125k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $120k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $109k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $113k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $107k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $38,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Downeast Community Partners Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Maine | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Blue Hill Public Library | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Women for Healthy Rural Living | $17,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Literacy Volunteers of Bangor | $17,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Healthy Peninsula | $17,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hand in Hand Mano en Mano | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gb Knecht Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Gb Knecht Foundation
- How much does The Gb Knecht Foundation give?
- The Gb Knecht Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $125,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 36 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Gb Knecht Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Food & Nutrition (14%), International (14%).
- Who are The Gb Knecht Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Good Shepherd Food Bank ($38k), Downeast Community Partners Inc ($35k), Catholic Charities Maine ($25k).
- Does The Gb Knecht Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gb Knecht Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gb Knecht Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Fisher Charitable Foundation, Davis Family Foundation.
- Where is The Gb Knecht Foundation based?
- The Gb Knecht Foundation is based in ME.
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