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Edward Little High School Alumni as Portland Trust Co LLC

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of EDWARD LITTLE HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI AS PORTLAND TRUST CO LLC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - ORONO$2,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$1,000
CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000
ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE$1,000
BATES COLLEGE$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FT KENT$1,000
ENDICOTT COLLEGE$1,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $1k → 10%UMASS DARTMOUTH: $1k → 11%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $1k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%ELMS COLLEGE: $1k → 17%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%MORRISVILLE STATE COLLEGE: $2k → 11%FLAGLER COLLEGE: $1k → 6%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%ELON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 7%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 7%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 20%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $1k → 9%BENNINGON COLLEGE: $1k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS: $1k → 19%COLBY SAWYER COLLEGE: $1k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1k → 9%PLYMOUTH STATE COLLEGE: $1k → 10%SAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE OF MAINE: $2k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $1k → 9%THOMAS COLLEGE: $2k → 12%BATES COLLEGE: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FT KENT: $1k → 15%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $1k → 10%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1k → 9%PLYMOUTH STATE COLLEGE: $1k → 10%ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE: $1k → 7%THOMAS COLLEGE: $1k → 12%CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $5k → 15%SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE: $1k → 7%CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $3k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $1k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - ORONO: $2k → 15%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

ME
VT
NH
WI
NY
MA
PA
RI
VA
MD
NC
AL
FL

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$36k · 8 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
21

Total granted

$36k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+12%

Still filing today

38%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

  • TC
    THOMAS COLLEGE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +7%
  • TO
    Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +0%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +9%
  • SN
    Southern New Hampshire Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +62%

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.

1
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

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
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
4
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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5
Dean College

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,…

Education
6
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
7
Albright College

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

Education
8
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
9
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

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
Nichols College

Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. 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 79 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr18%71%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr19%52%20–35yr16%5%35–55yr18%44%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
9%
845/9,528

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC — $18,070 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINEUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $2,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH STATE COLLEGE — $2,000 · OtherCENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $2,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON — $1,535 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON — $1,535 · OtherSAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE OF MAINE — $1,500 · Other+5 more — $5,000 · Other+5 moreTHOMAS COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationTHOMAS COLLEGETrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine — $2,000 · EducationTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Jose…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $1,535 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITYSouthern New Hampshire University — $1,535 · EducationSouthern New Hampshire UniversityPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $1,000 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $1,000 · EducationElon University — $1,000 · EducationMarquette University — $1,000 · EducationUniversity of New England — $1,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS — $1,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationColby-Sawyer College — $1,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $1,000 · EducationWilliams College — $1,000 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $1,000 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $1,000 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College — $1,000 · EducationFLAGLER COLLEGE INC — $1,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE — $1,000 · Education
Other$38,640Education$25,570

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $1,535 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University — $1,535 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE — $1,000 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Edward Little High School Alumni as Portland Trust Co LLC 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack College — 2% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 34 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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