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Amherst College Trustees

Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence.

$87M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MPublic Benefit$1.4MHuman Services$397kCommunity Improvement$360kRecreation & Sports$195kArts & Culture$159kHealth$150kCivil Rights$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $795,518, the rows itemized in this filing. The $87,061,636 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $86,266,118 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $430k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE JONES LIBRARY SYSTEM INC$250,000
TOWN OF AMHERST$225,000
AMHERST PUBLIC SCHOOLS$100,000
AMHERST GOLF CLUB INC$55,000
COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL INC$50,000
WOODSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER$35,225
AMHERST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC$32,000
THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC$25,000
AMHERST AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$11,750
NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA$11,543
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOODSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $98k → 12%Woodside Children's Center: $94k → 12%Woodside Children's Center: $69k → 12%Woodside Children's Center: $61k → 12%WOODSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $40k → 12%WOODSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $35k → 12%Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc: $16k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 15 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$3.9M
$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-11%

Still filing today

73%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WD
    WOODSIDE DAYCARE CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $397k · revenue +25%
  • FC
    FIVE COLLEGES INCORPORATED
    2× · 2021–2024 · $231k · revenue +3%
  • AB
    AMHERST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $57k · revenue -54%
  • HC
    HILLTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +61%
  • NM
    NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Amherst College Trustees

Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…

Education
2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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3
Amesbury Chamber of Commerce & Industrial Foundation Inc

To assist local business in amesbury to improve not only their personal business environment but the business environment of amesbury as a whole.

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4
University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc

The university of massachusetts amherst foundation leads and supports private fund raising on behalf of the faculty, staff and students of the amherst campus. its volunteer board of directors provides leadership for the development of…

Education
5
Amherst Community Television Inc

Operation of public access, educuational,and governmental television channels.

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6
Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc

To inspire, inform and entertain through the universal language of cinema arts and to serve as a cultural and educational resource for all.

Arts & Culture
7
University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association Inc

To promote the interests of the university of massachusetts amherst through programs, services and communications that develop and reinforce the bonds between the university and its alumni; to validate the value and alumni pride in the…

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8
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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9
Amherst Community Foundation

To enhance the quality of life in Amherst NH by raising and providing funds for programs or projects tha benefit the community.

Community Improvement
10
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
11
Amagansett Free Library

Providing quality materials and services, which fulfill the educational, information, cultural and recreational needs of the entire community in an atmosphere that is welcoming and respectful.

Education
12
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region; the most unlike its peers is Amherst Golf Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF AMHERST: $1,377,881 · OtherTOWN OF AMHERSTAMHERST-PELHAM REGIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $640,000 · OtherAMHERST-PELHAM REGIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLSFRIENDS OF THE JONES LIBRARY SYSTEM INC: $250,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE JONES LIBRARY SYSTEM INCAmherst Golf Club Inc: $195,000 · OtherAmherst Golf Club IncNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA: $103,887 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $100,000 · Other+3 more: $81,190 · OtherTHE FRIENDS OF THE JONES LIBRARY SYSTEM INC: $350,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDS OF THE…FIVE COLLEGES INCORPORATED: $230,785 · EducationFIVE COLLEGES INCO…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $38,131 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLE…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $25,000 · Education+4 more: $56,010 · Education+4 moreWOODSIDE DAYCARE CENTER INC: $396,507 · Human ServicesWOODSIDE D…PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $16,223 · Human ServicesAMHERST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC: $209,500 · Community ImprovementAMHERST B…THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DOWNT…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $57,489 · Civil RightsNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $25,000 · Arts & CultureIndigo Arts Alliance: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TOMAQUAG INDIAN MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF THE FRANKLIN & HAMPSHIRE REGION: $16,600 · Philanthropy
Other$2,747,958Education$699,926Human Services$412,730Community Improvement$359,500Civil Rights$57,489Arts & Culture$55,000Philanthropy$16,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOODSIDE DAYCARE CENTER INC: $396,507 over 9y, 19% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE JONES LIBRARY SYSTEM INC: $350,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetFIVE COLLEGES INCORPORATED: $230,785 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMHERST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC: $209,500 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetAmherst Golf Club Inc: $195,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $57,489 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $38,131 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $26,040 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JONES LIBRARY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE FRANKLIN & HAMPSHIRE REGION: $16,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $16,223 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMHERST COMMITTEE FOR A BETTER CHANCE INC: $16,010 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetIndigo Arts Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TOMAQUAG INDIAN MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Community Foundation …Peoplesbank Charitabl…The Beveridge Family …Easthampton Savings B…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Amherst College Trustees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amherst College Trustees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Hilltown Community Health Centers Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Five Colleges Incorporated: 3% of income from government
  • United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region: 2% of income from government
  • The Downtown Amherst Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst Business Improvement District Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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