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The Sukeforth 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $261k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Central Maine Bible Conference (dba Camp Fair Haven) | $65,000 |
| Christian Education League | $65,000 |
| Washington Advent Christian Camp | $65,000 |
| Thomas College | $33,000 |
| The Masonic Charitable Foundation of the Grand Lodge of Maine | $30,000 |
| Spectrum Generations | $26,000 |
| Kennebec Valley Community College | $25,000 |
| Maine General Health | $25,000 |
| Children's Discovery Museum | $25,000 |
| Vassalboro United Methodist Church | $21,850 |
| Lakewood Nursing Home | $20,000 |
| China Baptist Church | $20,000 |
| American Baptist Churches of Maine | $15,000 |
| Kennebec Valley Community Action Program (KVCAP) | $10,000 |
| MaineHealth | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- TCTHOMAS COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $408k · revenue +33%
- CECHRISTIAN EDUCATION LEAGUE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +38% · 30% of their budget
- TSTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN4× · 2020–2023 · $210k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- EMEastern Maine Healthcare Systemsone grant, 2020 · $76k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- EMEastern Maine Healthcare Systemone grant, 2023 · $45k
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 provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…
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.
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The organization's mission is to serve its students, their families and their sending school districts through well coordinated educational, clinical and consultation services.
The ASF mission is to provide incentive scholarship grants to Maine children for their higher education and to support Maine's children's aspirations and access to, and preparation for, higher education.
The Autism Society of Maine provides education and resources to support the valued lives of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Maine Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clinton Lions Agricultural Fair. 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 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 69 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 THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN EDUCATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Central Maine Bible Conference Fair Haven Camps ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE MASONIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE GRAND LODGE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS ↗
- Who funds MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE CLUB FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF WATERVILLE AR ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE CENTRAL MAINE ↗
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 · Lunder Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Waterville Area Women's Club · United Way of Kennebec Valley · Davis Family Foundation · United Way of Mid-Maine
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 Sukeforth 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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.