How much did FRED FORSYTH EDUCATIONAL FD grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of FRED FORSYTH EDUCATIONAL FD’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

—

2020

—

2021

gray

2022

scholarship fbo

2023

scholarship fbo

2024

scholarship

2025

scholarship

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $28k
$10k–50k1 grant · $11k

$2,368

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

EMCC$10,937
HUSSON UNIVERSITY$9,474
MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY$4,737
ALFRED UNIVERSITY$2,369
GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY$2,368
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - AUGUSTA$2,368
SMCC$2,368
UUNIVERSITY OF MAINE - ORONO$2,368
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY$2,368

02The need

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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 88% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of FRED FORSYTH EDUCATIONAL FD’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in RI; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

FRED FORSYTH EDUCATIONAL FDlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$251k · 12 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$251k

$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+61%

Still filing today

42%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

HU
HUSSON UNIVERSITY
5× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +16%
TC
THOMAS COLLEGE
2× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +19%
EM
EASTERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
3× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +25%

Funded once

FA
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2024 · $6k
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +61%
MC
MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +34%

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.

Colby-Sawyer College

Institute of Higher Learning

Education

New England College

An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.

Education

Monmouth College

To create and sustain an environment that is committed to liberal arts education.

Education

Massachusetts Higher Education

Provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—

Merrimack College

Merrimack college is a comprehensive, catholic augustinian institution of higher education.

Education

Western New England University

See Schedule O Statement for Part III, Line 1 that also applies to Part I, Line 1

Education

University of Maine Foundation

Fundraising and endowment management for the benefit of the University of Maine

Education

Franklin & Marshall College

A residential college dedicated to excellence in undergraduate liberal arts education.

Education

Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover share knowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and develop leadership expressed in service to others.

Education

Eastern University

Eastern University is a diverse, Christ-centered community preparing graduates to impact the world through faith, reason, and justice.

Education

Endicott College

Undergraduate and graduate education. (see schedule o)endicott integrates professional and liberal arts with experiential learning including internships.

Education

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine College of Art and Design and the most unlike its peers is Grand View University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

8/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$213,046Education$69,040

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.

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.

Albert H YoungME18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert H Young · William Searls Scholarship Fund · Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust · Ricker College Scholarship · Maine Community Foundation Inc · F Roger Miller Trust · Margaret J S Kennedy Trust · Worthington Scholarship Foundation · Cochran Gifford a Tr Uind · Melmac Education Foundation · Davis Educational Foundation · Higgins Mary E Educ Fund

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 organisation FRED FORSYTH EDUCATIONAL FD 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EASTERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 010385303 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on EASTERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Fred Forsyth Educational Fd?

Find your warmest path to Fred Forsyth Educational Fd through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FRED FORSYTH EDUCATIONAL FD

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fred Forsyth Educational Fd?

More from the funding graph

FRED FORSYTH EDUCATIONAL FD

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fred Forsyth Educational Fd?

More from the funding graph