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· Public charity

The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

$74M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of The President and Trustees of Colby College’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $252,194 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $74,302,194 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,050,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $166k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Central Maine Growth Council$84,766
Town of St George$81,293
Waterville Creates$41,500
Friends of Quarry Road$15,000
Alfond Youth Center$11,500
Archives of American Art Journal$6,416
Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce$6,000
Maine Federation of Farmers' Markets$5,719
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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%National Black Child Development Institute: $9k → 8%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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 13 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$1.8M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+12%

Still filing today

62%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CM
    Central Maine Growth Council
    9× · 2017–2025 · $441k · revenue +816%
  • WC
    WATERVILLE CREATES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $412k · revenue +372%
  • CV
    Carrabassett Valley Academy
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • WM
    WATERVILLE MAIN STREET
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • KV
    KENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +12%
  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +15%

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.

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Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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2
Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

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3
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
4
Northern Maine Development Commission

To serve the northern Maine region with effective regional community planning and economic development.

Community Improvement
5
Manufacturers Association of Maine

The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.

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6
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
7
Maine State Chamber of Commerce

Enhance the business climate, the quality of life, and economic wellbeing of the businesses and people of maine

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8
Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center

To strengthen the competitive position on the development and commercialization of new marketable species of finfish, shellfish, and sea vegetables by developing technology to lower industry cost and provide education.

Food & Nutrition
9
Maine Citizens for Clean Elections

MCCE is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to ensure that Maine's campaign finance laws, elections, and government serve the public interest, both in principal and practice.

Civil Rights
10
Maine Arts Academy

The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…

Education
11
Maine Jewish Film Festival

The Maine Jewish Film Festival celebrates filmmakinginspiring conversation through the lens of global Jewish experience. Innovative programming invites a diverse statewide audience into the dialogue. Many of our programs include guest…

Arts & Culture
12
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

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 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF WATERVILLE — $297,500 · OtherCITY OF WATERVILLETown of St George — $253,879 · OtherTown of St GeorgeWATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION — $123,495 · OtherWATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONMAINE FILM CENTER — $91,347 · OtherMAINE FILM CENTERCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL — $56,500 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL+13 more — $140,279 · Other+13 moreWATERVILLE CREATES — $411,905 · Arts & CultureWATERVILLE CREATESCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $30,200 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSE…+3 more — $24,954 · Arts & Culture+3 moreCentral Maine Growth Council — $441,090 · Community ImprovementCentral Maine Growth Coun…+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCarrabassett Valley Academy — $50,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $15,000 · EducationMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $10,000 · EducationALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER — $31,150 · Youth DevelopmentFriends of Quarry Road — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsKENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION — $25,000 · Health
Other$963,000Arts & Culture$467,059Community Improvement$451,090Education$75,000Youth Development$31,150Recreation & Sports$30,000Health$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCentral Maine Growth Council — $441,090 over 9y, 25% of budgetWATERVILLE CREATES — $411,905 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetWATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION — $123,495 over 4y, 31% of budgetMAINE FILM CENTER — $91,347 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCarrabassett Valley Academy — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER — $31,150 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $30,200 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetWATERVILLE MAIN STREET — $30,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFriends of Quarry Road — $30,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-MAINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $13,180 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMaine National Guard Foundation Fund — $11,822 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKennebec Valley Council of Governments — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $9,606 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $9,295 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE INSIDE OUT — $8,538 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWATERVILLE AREA SOUP KITCHEN — $7,800 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc — $7,293 over 1y, 0.9% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Found…Bill and Joan Alfond …Kennebec Savings Bank…Raymond J and Mary C …Harold Alfond Foundat…Lunder FoundationOnion FoundationDavis Family Foundati…The Borman Family Fou…Waterville Area Women…Franklin Savings Bank…United Way of Kennebe…
Maine Community Foundation IncME34.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Raymond J and Mary C Reisert Foundation Inc · Harold Alfond Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Borman Family Foundation · Waterville Area Women's Club · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · United Way of Kennebec Valley

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 The President and Trustees of Colby College 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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