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Barbara Thorndike Wiggin Fund Portland Trust Co LLC at a glance

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Barbara Thorndike Wiggin Fund Portland Trust Co LLC

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
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$266k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,181
Median grant
4
States reached
$697k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$9,543
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$3,181
MIAMI UNIVERSITY$3,181
ENDICOTT COLLEGE$3,181
ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE$3,181
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$3,181
REGIS COLLEGE$3,181
SMCC$3,181
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $3k → 10%WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%SIMMONS COLLEGE: $8k → 16%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $8k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $3k → 13%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $3k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE: $7k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $13k → 15%REGIS COLLEGE: $5k → 8%WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%SIMMONS COLLEGE: $5k → 16%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE: $5k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $11k → 15%REGIS COLLEGE: $3k → 8%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE: $4k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $10k → 15%REGIS COLLEGE: $3k → 8%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE: $3k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $4k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $8k → 15%SMCC: $3k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $7k → 15%SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $5k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $18k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $18k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $14k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $14k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$222k · 9 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$222k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+9%

Still filing today

67%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

  • HU
    Husson University
    5× · 2017–2021 · $68k · revenue +38%
  • QU
    QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • SIMMONS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • NG
    NORTH GREENWICH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +9%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +6%
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
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
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
3
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
4
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
5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

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
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
8
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
9
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
10
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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11
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University; the most unlike its peers is Endicott College. 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

9 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. 9 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Husson University: $68,071 · EducationHusson UniversityQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $20,405 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $18,252 · EducationTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Mai…SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $15,252 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITYREGIS COLLEGE: $11,514 · EducationREGIS COLLEGETrustees of Tufts College: $7,500 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $6,181 · Education+1 more: $3,181 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $61,852 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINEARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $11,333 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYWORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $9,571 · OtherWORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITYNORTH GREENWICH UNIVERSITY: $8,500 · OtherNORTH GREENWICH UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,333 · Other+6 more: $18,862 · Other+6 more
Education$150,356Other$115,451

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHusson University: $68,071 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $20,405 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $18,252 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $15,252 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $11,514 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $6,181 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $3,181 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Husson University ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barbara Thorndike Wiggin Fund Portland Trust Co LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara Thorndike Wiggin Fund Portland Trust Co LLC. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
  • Regis College: 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 19 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-PF 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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