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F Roger Miller Trust at a glance

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F Roger Miller Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$145kReligion$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$804k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH BERWICK FREE BAPTIST CHURCH$20,000
CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE$5,000
WHEATON COLLEGE$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WHEATON COLLEGE: $5k → 11%GROVE CITY COLLEGE: $2k → 13%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%EMERY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL: $5k → 12%JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%SOUTH BERWICK FREE: $21k → 9%AVEDA INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $3k → 12%CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 13%UNIV OF MAINE FARMINGTON: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $5k → 15%WASHINGTON COUNTY COMM COLLEGE: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $5k → 7%SOUTH BERWICK FREE BAPTIST CHURCH: $20k → 9%AVEDA INSTITUTE OF MAINE: $2k → 12%CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY: $3k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $3k → 15%WASHINGTON COUNTY COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 16%MAINE ELECTRICAL INSTITURE: $2k → 7%SOUTH BERWICK FREE BAPTIST CHURCH: $20k → 9%CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $2k → 7%SOUTH BERWICK FREE: $19k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $2k → 7%SOUTH BERWICK FREE BAPTIST CHURCH: $18k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $2k → 15%SOUTH BERWICK FREE: $18k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $2k → 15%SOUTH BERWICK FREE: $17k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $2k → 15%SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 7%SOUTH BERWICK FREE: $16k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $2k → 15%SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 7%SOUTH BERWICK FREE: $15k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $2k → 15%SOUTHER MAINE COMMUNITY: $2k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $2k → 15%COLBY COLLEGE: $3k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $2k → 15%THOMAS COLLEGE: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $2k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $2k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of F Roger Miller Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

F Roger Miller Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$267k · 16 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$267k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+24%

Still filing today

19%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% 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× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +38%
  • TC
    THOMAS COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +28%
  • GC
    GROVE CITY COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2022 · $3k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • JW
    JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -22%
  • EA
    EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +61%
  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +3%
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
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
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
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
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
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Reed Institute

The mission of Reed College is to provide education in the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
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 Bowdoin College; the most unlike its peers is Husson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 35 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $105,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTH BERWICK FREE BAPTIST CHURCH: $58,000 · OtherSOUTH BERWICK FREE BAPTIST CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $27,446 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCUNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $12,300 · Other+20 more: $65,697 · Other+20 moreHusson University: $8,431 · EducationHusson Univers…JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationJOHNSON & WALE…EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE A…WHEATON COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationWHEATON COLLEG…THOMAS COLLEGE: $4,285 · EducationTHOMAS COLLEGEGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationGROVE CITY COL…ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $2,650 · EducationST LAWRENCE UN…The President and Trustees of Colby College: $2,571 · EducationThe President …University of New England: $1,860 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · Education
Other$269,043Education$39,797

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: $8,431 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE: $4,285 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $2,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $2,571 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $1,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 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 Husson University ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
  • Who funds University of New England ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS 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.

William Searls Schola…Sweetser Foundation I…Davis Educational Fou…Fidelity Investments …
William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank TrusteeME13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee · Sweetser Foundation Inc · Davis Educational Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 F Roger Miller Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from F Roger Miller Trust. 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 2%
  • Brandeis University: 8% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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 35 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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