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Higgins Mary E Educ Fund at a glance

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Higgins Mary E Educ Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$52k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$154k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FBO$1,000
SAINT JOSEPHS COLLEGE$1,000
SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE$1,000
ENDICOTT COLLEGE$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE$1,000
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.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34k · 6 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$34k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • University of New England
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +20%
  • TC
    THOMAS COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +19%
  • ENDICOTT COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +17%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • MM
    MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
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
3
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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4
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
8
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
9
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
10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of New England; the most unlike its peers is Central Maine Community College Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $19,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINEUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $4,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINESAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE OF MAINE: $4,000 · OtherSAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE OF MAINEUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $2,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIREMAINE MARITIME ACADEMY: $2,000 · OtherMAINE MARITIME ACADEMY+5 more: $4,500 · Other+5 moreTrustees of Tufts College: $4,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeUniversity of New England: $2,000 · EducationUniversity of New EnglandTHOMAS COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationTHOMAS COLLEGEENDICOTT COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGEHusson University: $1,500 · EducationHusson UniversitySPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationSPRINGFIELD COLLEGESAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGETrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $1,000 · EducationTrustees of Saint Joseph's Colle…BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $500 · Education
Other$37,000Education$15,000

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

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
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.

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 …Lillian M Baker Trust…Albert H YoungJw Robinson Welfare T…Frederic E Skillings …Sweetser Foundation I…Davis Educational Fou…Melmac Education Foun…Harold Alfond Foundat…Maine Community Found…Verizon FoundationDonor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Higgins Mary E Educ Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Higgins Mary E Educ Fund. 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 0%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
  • Springfield College: 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College: 0% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home