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Baker-Adams Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$197kRecreation & Sports$4kYouth Development$4kArts & Culture$2kScience & Tech$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$677k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BATES COLLEGE$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$4,000
MERRIMACK COLLEGE$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$3,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $4k → 15%BOSTON COLLEGE: $4k → 7%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $4k → 10%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $4k → 11%WHEATON COLLEGE: $4k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $5k → 12%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 16%LOS ANGELES COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $1k → 14%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $4k → 7%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 7%ELON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 7%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $4k → 14%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 15%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $4k → 21%THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $6k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $6k → 13%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 15%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $5k → 12%MASS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $2k → 16%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT: $28k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $4k → 12%SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%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

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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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$34k · 5 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
45

Total granted

$34k
$129k

Still filing today

0%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
    2× · 2022–2023 · $11k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST
    2× · 2023–2025 · $9k
  • NU
    NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2021 · $7k

Funded once

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +12%
  • UA
    UMASS AMHERST
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • Elon University
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +14%

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.

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Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
3
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
4
Whittier College

Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…

Education
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College and the most unlike its peers is Citrus County 4-H Association 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT — $10,750 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONTUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST — $8,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERSTNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $7,000 · OtherNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYUMASS AMHERST — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $4,750 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE — $4,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY — $4,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $4,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $4,000 · OtherFAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY — $4,000 · Other+27 more — $60,500 · Other+27 moreTrustees of Tufts College — $6,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegePRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $6,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLE…Elon University — $5,000 · EducationElon UniversitySKIDMORE COLLEGE — $4,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGEMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $4,000 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGEWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $4,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYBENTLEY UNIVERSITY — $4,000 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $4,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEWHEATON COLLEGE — $3,500 · EducationWHEATON COLLEGEHusson University — $3,500 · EducationHusson UniversityPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $3,500 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGEUniversity of Miami — $3,000 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $3,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE — $3,000 · Education+2 more — $3,000 · EducationCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 · Youth Development
Other$116,500Education$59,500Youth Development$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHusson University — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
  • Who funds Elon University
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE
  • Who funds Husson University
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
  • Who funds University of Miami
  • Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
  • Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Baker-Adams Scholarship Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Trustees of Tufts College11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute6% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College2% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc2% of income from government
  • Merrimack College2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University1% of income from government
  • Endicott College0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College0% of income from government
  • Bentley University0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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