How much did THE K2 FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of THE K2 FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

farmoceanview grange

2021

neighbor

2022

george cdcwabanaki healthgood shepherdimmigrant legallegal advocacyleaps imaginationfood

2023

foodgoodneighbor

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k23 grants · $37k
$10k–50k4 grants · $95k
$50k–250k3 grants · $325k
$250k+3 grants · $1.1M

$1,093

Median grant

States reached

$5.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - DONOR ADVISED FUND$475,800
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$400,000
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$250,000
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$225,000
ACLU OF MAINE$50,000
MAINE FARMLAND TRUST$50,000
THE JAR$25,000
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY$25,000
ST GEORGE HOUSING I LLC$25,000
MIDCOAST HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$20,000
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION$5,150
AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST$5,000
OUT MAINE$2,575
ACLU OF MAINE$2,575
AIO FOOD PANTRY$2,575

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.9M · 39 repeat orgs$904k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$349k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+78%

Still filing today

56%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $554k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +109%
MF
MAINE FARMLAND TRUST
4× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +46%
SG
ST GEORGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
2× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +60%

Funded once

SG
ST GEORGE CDC
one grant, 2022 · $80k
RB
RADIUS BOOKSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +143%
EF
E FOR ALL
one grant, 2022 · $50k

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.

Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation

Maine Public is Maine's premier, independent media resource serving the entirety of Maine, dedicated to creating exceptional opportunities for the communities it serves to engage with critical issues, compelling stories, and quality…

Arts & Culture

Maine Equal Justice Partners

Maine Equal Justice is a Nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity, and equity for people in Maine.

Crime & Legal

Fork Food Lab

Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…

Environment

Maine Donor Alliance Fund

Maine Donor Alliance Fund and Maine Donor Alliance both work to build lasting progressive power through year-round investment in strategic infrastructure organizations in Maine. We use strategic philanthropy to advance the goals of our…

Education

Islesboro Islands Trust

Islesboro Island Trust is a nonprofit land trust serving the community of Islesboro in Maine's Penobscot Bay. Founded in 1985, the mission is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all…

Philanthropy

Maine Media College

Maine Media College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential.

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Maine & Company

Economic development in Maine.

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Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate and ecological emergency. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate…

Environment

Maine Federation of Farmers Markets

MFFM's Mission is to cultivate a vibrant sustainable farmers' market community, as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The Federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown foods available to…

Food & Nutrition

Maine Island Trail Association

To steward and maintain Maine's coastal islands and educate users.

Environment

University of Maine Foundation

Fundraising and endowment management for the benefit of the University of Maine

Education

The Maine Center for Public Interest

The maine center for public interest reporting is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. it produces investigative and enterprise journalism on issues of public interest in the state of maine and publishes the maine…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Initiativesinc and the most unlike its peers is Hurricane Island Outward Bound School. 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.

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 32 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/39

the rest of the field

716/9,512

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.

05the grantee network

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/37

Grantees still filing

33/37

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,242,223Philanthropy$1,172,725Food & Nutrition$150,845Human Services$90,240Arts & Culture$70,667Community Improvement$25,000Environment$17,000

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.

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 IncME41× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Rocking Moon Foundation Inc · Quimby Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Peter Alfond Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation

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 organisation THE K2 FAMILY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ST GEORGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~36 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +60% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821977455 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ST GEORGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 36 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The K2 Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The K2 Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE K2 FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The K2 Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE K2 FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The K2 Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph