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The Kirby Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$198k
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$322kEducation$200kInternational$33kHuman Services$29kHealth$22kHousing & Shelter$19kEnvironment$16kCrime & Legal$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 45 grants below total $151,910 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $198,433 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,523 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Maine Foundation$30,000
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Inc$15,000
Key West Film Society Inc$12,000
DeMatha Catholic High School$10,000
University of Idaho Foundation Inc$10,000
Key West Literary Seminar Inc$5,000
The Studios of Key West Inc$5,000
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project$4,000
American Academy in Rome$3,500
Cultural Alliance of Maine$3,150
Take Stock in Children$3,000
Birth Roots Inc$3,000
Portland Theater Festival$3,000
Portland Public Library$2,500
Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine$2,500
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 (FY21–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Uplift Afghanistan: $3k → 10%Portland Parks Conservancy: $1k → 7%Preble Street: $3k → 7%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
ID
NY
MA
RI
CA
CO
MD
DC
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$521k · 39 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
31

Total granted

$521k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

82%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthCrime & 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

  • CR
    CIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $62k · revenue +114%
  • UO
    University of Idaho Foundation Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +7%
  • BB
    Brooklyn Book Festival Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $28k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SG
    Space Gallery
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • PI
    PARTNERS IN HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -53%
  • WW
    Words Without Borders Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +33%

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
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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2
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.

Human Services
3
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
4
Maine Philanthropy Center

The Maine Philanthropy Center (MPC) is the state's leading resource that provides opportunity, leadership and support to advance the effectiveness of philanthropy in Maine and its ability to make a meaningful difference. It helps grant…

Education
5
Maine Film Center

To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.

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6
Maine Arts Academy

The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…

Education
7
Maine Jewish Film Festival

The Maine Jewish Film Festival celebrates filmmakinginspiring conversation through the lens of global Jewish experience. Innovative programming invites a diverse statewide audience into the dialogue. Many of our programs include guest…

Arts & Culture
8
Camden Conference

The camden conference fosters informed discourse on world issues.

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9
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
10
Bowdoin International Music Festival

The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…

Arts & Culture
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Civitella Ranieri Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%10%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%35%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% 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%1/66
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,694

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

63 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. 63 of the 84 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
39/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 · OtherCIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDATION INCDEMATHA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $40,000 · OtherDEMATHA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLKEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC — $22,500 · OtherKEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INCFRIENDS SCHOOL OF PORTLAND — $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS SCHOOL OF PORTLANDMAINE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS ALLIAN — $14,575 · OtherThe Studio of Key West — $10,000 · OtherSpace Gallery — $10,000 · OtherALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $16,077 · OtherALI FORNEY CENTER INC+34 more — $84,353 · Other+34 moreUniversity of Maine Foundation — $69,512 · EducationUniversity of Maine Founda…University of Idaho Foundation Inc — $40,000 · EducationUniversity of Idaho Founda…Brooklyn Book Festival Inc — $27,500 · EducationBrooklyn Book Festival IncPortland Public Library — $10,500 · EducationPortland Public LibraryTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $7,120 · Education+5 more — $11,000 · Education+5 moreKEY WEST FILM SOCIETY INC — $34,000 · Arts & CultureKEY WEST FILM SOCI…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $18,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM …HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON VALLEY SHAK…THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIOS OF KEY…Indigo Arts Alliance — $9,940 · Arts & CultureIndigo Arts Allian…Portland Museum of Art — $8,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of…Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $6,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $16,658 · Arts & Culture+7 moreCEC ARTSLINK INC — $39,500 · InternationalCEC ARTSL…AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …Words Without Borders Inc — $6,000 · InternationalWords Wit…PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $2,500 · InternationalPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $17,000 · HealthBIRTH ROOTS INC — $14,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH — $6,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,065 · HealthAfghan Girls Financial Assistance Fund — $12,000 · Human ServicesMaine Needs Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesUplift Afghanistan Fund — $3,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET — $2,500 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Maine — $1,500 · Human ServicesPortland Parks Conservancy — $1,000 · Human ServicesEqualityMaine Foundation — $1,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $8,000 · Crime & LegalTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN — $6,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $4,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$274,505Education$165,632Arts & Culture$115,098International$58,000Health$42,565Human Services$26,000Crime & Legal$18,000

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 budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation — $69,512 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCEC ARTSLINK INC — $39,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKEY WEST FILM SOCIETY INC — $34,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBrooklyn Book Festival Inc — $27,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC — $22,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $18,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $16,077 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS ALLIAN — $14,575 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBIRTH ROOTS INC — $14,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAfghan Girls Financial Assistance Fund — $12,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPortland Public Library — $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndigo Arts Alliance — $9,940 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $7,120 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CONGRESS SQUARE PARK — $7,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH — $6,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWords Without Borders Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,065 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF KEY WEST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMaine Needs Inc — $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Telling Room — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION — $3,599 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCultural Alliance of Maine — $3,150 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUplift Afghanistan Fund — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPORTLAND THEATER FESTIVAL — $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECO THEO COLLECTIVE — $2,700 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $2,070 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWardwell Farm — $2,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR KIDS READ ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetchickadeeds — $2,000 over 2y, 1.5% 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 Found…Onion FoundationMorton-Kelly Charitab…Sam L Cohen FoundationElmina B Sewall Found…Horizon Foundation IncJohn T Gorman Foundat…Davis Family Foundati…The Widgeon Point Cha…Algar FoundationMoser Family Foundati…The Clements Family C…
Maine Community Foundation IncME40.7× affinity21 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 · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Algar Foundation · Moser Family Foundation Inc · The Clements Family 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 The Kirby 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Key West Film Society Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report 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, FY20–25

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.

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 84 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $205k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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