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Cora & Everett Harris Trust Fund at a glance

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Cora & Everett Harris Trust Fund

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.

$202k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$33k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$259kEducation$136kHuman Services$127kReligion$92kYouth Development$84kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kHousing & Shelter$15kScience & Tech$5k
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $112k
$4,650
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER$32,628
INLAND HOSPITAL$24,471
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$24,471
WATERVILLE AREA YMCA$20,392
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT ORONO$10,243
WATERVILLE AREA BOYS &GIRLS CLUB$8,157
PINE TREE BOY SCOUTS$8,157
MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME LITTLE WANDERERS$6,118
SKILLS INC$6,118
SALVATION ARMY$6,118
PINE TREE SOCIETY INC$6,118
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$6,118
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON$4,650
BATES COLLEGE$4,631
GIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE$4,078
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $6k → 14%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $4k → 11%SKILLS INC: $6k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $6k → 14%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $4k → 11%SKILLS INC: $6k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $6k → 14%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $4k → 11%SKILLS INC: $6k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%SKILLS INC: $5k → 15%WATERVILLE AREA YMCA: $21k → 12%WATERVILLE AREA YMCA: $21k → 12%WATERVILLE AREA YMCA: $20k → 12%WATERVILLE AREA YMCA: $19k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$683k · 20 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
6

Total granted

$683k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+16%

Still filing today

55%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • WA
    WATERVILLE AREA YMCA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $81k · revenue +69%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +23%
  • PT
    PINE TREE SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • WI
    WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • HU
    Husson University
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +16%
  • AM
    AMERICAN MUSICAL & ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
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
3
University of New England

The University of New England prepares students to thrive in a rapidly-changing world and, in so doing, to improve the health of people, communities, and our planet.

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
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
12
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College

Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown University; the most unlike its peers is Sunset Home of Waterville. 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

19 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. 19 of the 37 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINEGENRAL MEDICAL CENTER: $123,236 · OtherMAINEGENRAL MEDICAL CENTERFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $92,428 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHPINE TREE BOY SCOUTS: $30,809 · OtherPINE TREE BOY SCOUTSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $23,107 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYMAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $23,107 · OtherMAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERSSUNSET HOME OF WATERVILLE: $15,404 · OtherKENNEBEC VALLEY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $15,404 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $15,254 · Other+12 more: $57,283 · Other+12 moreWATERVILLE AREA YMCA: $81,070 · Human ServicesWATERVILLE AREA YMCASkills Inc: $23,107 · Human ServicesSkills IncAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $23,107 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $15,404 · Human ServicesWAYFINDER SCHOOLSINLAND HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT INLAND HOSPITAL: $97,285 · HealthINLAND HOSPITA…WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $37,560 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE: $15,404 · Youth DevelopmentPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $23,107 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $4,631 · EducationTHOMAS COLLEGE: $4,235 · EducationHusson University: $4,009 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $2,487 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $2,422 · EducationSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $2,421 · EducationTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $2,400 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$396,032Human Services$142,688Health$97,285Youth Development$52,964Education$50,712Community Improvement$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINLAND HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT INLAND HOSPITAL: $97,285 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWATERVILLE AREA YMCA: $81,070 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetWATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $37,560 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSkills Inc: $23,107 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $23,107 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $23,107 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $23,107 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSUNSET HOME OF WATERVILLE: $15,404 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $15,404 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE: $15,404 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $4,631 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE: $4,235 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHusson University: $4,009 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $2,487 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $2,422 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $2,421 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 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 INLAND HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT INLAND HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds WATERVILLE AREA YMCA ↗
  • Who funds WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Skills Inc ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS ↗
  • Who funds SUNSET HOME OF WATERVILLE ↗
  • Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MAINE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Husson University ↗
  • Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
  • Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Davis Family Foundati…Maine Community Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…John T Gorman Foundat…Enterprise Holdings F…Harold Alfond Foundat…Bill and Joan Alfond …Lunder FoundationLibra FoundationStephen & Tabitha Kin…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…
Davis Family FoundationME19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davis Family Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Libra Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Cora & Everett Harris Trust Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cora & Everett Harris Trust Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’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 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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 37 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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