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Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$718k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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 arriving10$43k40%
FY20247$55k29%
FY20236$35k33%
FY20228$45k13%
FY20219$30k33%
FY20208$36k25%
FY20199$36k33%
FY201810$24k10%
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$327kHealth$16k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MA
IA
PA
CT
CA
AZ
NC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Husson University$65,20090%
University of Maine System Inc$44,3007n/a
Maine Maritime Academy$34,9008n/a
University of New England$23,50060%
Rockland District Nursing Association$16,00033%
Thomas College$8,30020%
Bowdoin College$7,30030%
Dean College$6,60020%
Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine$5,00010%
Endicott College$5,00010%
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All grantees of Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Husson University$65,20090%
University of Maine System Inc$44,3007n/a
Maine Maritime Academy$34,9008n/a
University of New England$23,50060%
Rockland District Nursing Association$16,00033%
Thomas College$8,30020%
Bowdoin College$7,30030%
Dean College$6,60020%
Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine$5,00010%
Endicott College$5,00010%
Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa$3,30020%
The President and Trustees of Colby College$3,30020%
Northeastern University$3,00010%
Bryn Mawr College$3,00010%
Saint Anselm College$2,00010%
Bentley University$2,00010%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHusson University: $65,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $23,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRockland District Nursing Association: $16,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThomas College: $8,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $7,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDean College: $6,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEndicott College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBryn Mawr College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Anselm College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBentley University: $2,000 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 14.

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.

Frederic E Skillings Trust UwOH15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frederic E Skillings Trust Uw · Davis Educational Foundation · Cochran Gifford a Tr Uind · Higgins Mary E Educ Fund · Albert H Young · Jw Robinson Welfare Trust · Sweetser Foundation Inc · Melmac Education Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation

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 Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC

How much does Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC give?
Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC reported 10 grants totaling $43,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (95%), Health (5%).
Who are Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Husson University ($65k), University of Maine System Inc ($44k), Maine Maritime Academy ($35k).
Does Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frederic E Skillings Trust Uw, Davis Educational Foundation, Cochran Gifford a Tr Uind.
Where is Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC based?
Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC is based in ME.

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 31 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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