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Amherst College Trustees
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $795,518 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $87,061,636 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,266,118 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $430k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE JONES LIBRARY SYSTEM INC | $250,000 |
| TOWN OF AMHERST | $225,000 |
| AMHERST PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| AMHERST GOLF CLUB INC | $55,000 |
| COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL INC | $50,000 |
| WOODSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $35,225 |
| AMHERST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC | $32,000 |
| THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| AMHERST AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $11,750 |
| NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA | $11,543 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WDWOODSIDE DAYCARE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $397k · revenue +25%
- FCFIVE COLLEGES INCORPORATED2× · 2021–2024 · $231k · revenue +3%
- ABAMHERST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +64%
Funded once
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $57k · revenue -54%- HCHILLTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +21%
- NMNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAMEone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To promote the interests of the university of massachusetts amherst through programs, services and communications that develop and reinforce the bonds between the university and its alumni; to validate the value and alumni pride in the…
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
To assist local business in amesbury to improve not only their personal business environment but the business environment of amesbury as a whole.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Operation of public access, educuational,and governmental television channels.
To inspire, inform and entertain through the universal language of cinema arts and to serve as a cultural and educational resource for all.
The university of massachusetts amherst foundation leads and supports private fund raising on behalf of the faculty, staff and students of the amherst campus. its volunteer board of directors provides leadership for the development of…
To enhance the quality of life in Amherst NH by raising and providing funds for programs or projects tha benefit the community.
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
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…
Land conservation and open space preservation
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region and the most unlike its peers is Amherst Golf Club Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WOODSIDE DAYCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE JONES LIBRARY SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE COLLEGES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMHERST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds Amherst Golf Club Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DOWNTOWN AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE JONES LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE FRANKLIN & HAMPSHIRE REGION ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COMMITTEE FOR A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop ↗
- Who funds Indigo Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE TOMAQUAG INDIAN MEMORIAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Amherst College Trustees 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.
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- Hilltown Community Health Centers Inc — 18% of income from government
- Five Colleges Incorporated — 3% of income from government
- United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region — 2% of income from government
- The Downtown Amherst Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst Business Improvement District Inc — 0% of income from government
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.