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Higgins Mary E Educ Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 10
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$154k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Higgins Mary E Educ Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$5k60%
FY20243$4k33%
FY202310$11k70%
FY20226$13k50%
FY20215$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$52k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Higgins Mary E Educ Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Tufts College$4,00010%
Maine Maritime Academy$2,0001n/a
University of New England$2,00020%
Thomas College$2,00020%
Endicott College$2,00020%
Husson University$1,50010%
Springfield College$1,00010%
Saint Joseph's College$1,00010%
Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine$1,00010%
Central Maine Community College Foundation$1,00010%
Bentley University$50010%
University of Maine System Inc$5001n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Higgins Mary E Educ Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThomas College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEndicott College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHusson University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpringfield College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Joseph's College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Maine Community College Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBentley University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Cochran Gifford a Tr UindPA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cochran Gifford a Tr Uind · Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC · Albert H Young · 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

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.

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About Higgins Mary E Educ Fund

How much does Higgins Mary E Educ Fund give?
Higgins Mary E Educ Fund reported 5 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Higgins Mary E Educ Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Higgins Mary E Educ Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Trustees of Tufts College ($4k), Maine Maritime Academy ($2k), University of New England ($2k).
Does Higgins Mary E Educ Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Higgins Mary E Educ Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Higgins Mary E Educ Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cochran Gifford a Tr Uind, Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC, Albert H Young.
Where is Higgins Mary E Educ Fund based?
Higgins Mary E Educ Fund is based in OH.

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 19 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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