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Taber Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$152kCommunity Improvement$3kScience & Tech$2k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,100
Median grant
3
States reached
$555k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$2,100
BRYANT UNIVERSITY$2,100
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY$2,100
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$2,100
MOTORING TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTE$2,100
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY$2,100
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY$2,100
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$2,100
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND$2,100
SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY$2,100
02The need
03

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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DEAN COLLEGE: $3k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY: $3k → 8%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $3k → 10%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $2k → 11%WHEATON COLLEGE: $3k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $4k → 12%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 16%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $3k → 16%BROWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 13%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $3k → 7%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 7%SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 7%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $1k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $3k → 12%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%LOUISANNA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $3k → 9%BABSON COLLEGE: $3k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%GORDON COLLEGE: $3k → 10%BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 11%MASS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $3k → 16%NOVA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 7%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 7%SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 7%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 11%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%MOTORING TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTE: $3k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%MOTORING TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UMASS DARTMOUTH: $3k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY: $2k → 16%UMASS DARTMOUTH: $3k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CO
KY
VA
SC
LA
GA
FL

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

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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$45k · 9 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
31

Total granted

$45k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+14%

Still filing today

44%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +6%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • NS
    NOVA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • WI
    WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +13%
  • UA
    UMASS AMHERST
    one grant, 2021 · $4k

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.

1
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
2
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
3
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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4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
12
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

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

Your grantees are a median of 77 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%80%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%81%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,539

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $7,500 · OtherBRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGEUMASS DARTMOUTH — $6,500 · OtherUMASS DARTMOUTHNOVA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · OtherNOVA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND — $4,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLANDMOTORING TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTE — $4,600 · OtherMOTORING TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTEUMASS AMHERST — $4,000 · OtherUMASS AMHERSTBRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY — $3,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA — $2,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT — $2,500 · OtherMASS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — $2,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $2,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $2,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY — $2,500 · OtherLOUISANNA STATE UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · Other+7 more — $9,450 · Other+7 moreWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $5,000 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INCSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY — $4,600 · EducationSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITYROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $4,600 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $4,600 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITYNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $4,500 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYWHEATON COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationDEAN COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $2,500 · EducationFairfield University — $2,500 · EducationBABSON COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationGORDON COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · EducationBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $2,100 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $2,100 · EducationWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY — $2,100 · Education+6 more — $9,250 · Education+6 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$68,150Education$61,350Community Improvement$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY — $4,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $4,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $4,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAN COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY — $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organization Taber Scholarship Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University — 0% of income from government
  • Western New England University — 0% of income from government
  • Babson College — 0% of income from government
  • Gordon College — 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College — 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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

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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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