· Private foundation
Cochran Gifford a Tr Uind
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOMAS COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| HUSSON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| MASS COLLEGE OF PHARM AND HEALTH SCIENCE | $1,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF MAINE | $1,000 |
| EMERSON COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| UNE - WESTBROOK COLLEGE OF HEATH | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON | $500 |
| EASTERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $500 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE | $250 |
| UMASS BOSTON | $250 |
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
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
- HUHusson University5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +18%
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +22%
EMERSON COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISone grant, 2020 · $2k
- SCSTONEHILL COLLEGE INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +23%
University of New Englandone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +20%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
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…
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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…
Bryant University's mission is to educate and inspire students to discover their passion and become innovative leaders with character around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerson College and the most unlike its peers is Central Maine Community College Foundation. 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 62 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 35 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 Husson University ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Higgins Mary E Educ Fund · Albert H Young · Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC · Jw Robinson Welfare Trust · Frederic E Skillings Trust Uw · Sweetser Foundation Inc · Davis Educational Foundation · Melmac Education Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Cochran Gifford a Tr Uind 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.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 1% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Lesley University — 0% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 0% 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.