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Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
56%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$556k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 arriving12$40k67%
FY20249$26k56%
FY202310$29k30%
FY202213$28k38%
FY202111$29k55%
FY202011$16k45%
FY201918$24k50%
FY201816$26k63%
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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$239kEnvironment$3kArts & Culture$3k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
ID
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
AZ
TN
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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
University of Maine System Inc$50,5009n/a
Husson University$17,50090%
Maine Maritime Academy$13,0007n/a
Bowdoin College$7,50040%
Thomas College$6,25030%
University of New England$5,00020%
Kennebec Valley Community College Foundation$4,50021%
Springfield College$4,00030%
Shenandoah University$3,25010%
Vanderbilt University$3,00010%
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All grantees of Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Maine System Inc$50,5009n/a
Husson University$17,50090%
Maine Maritime Academy$13,0007n/a
Bowdoin College$7,50040%
Thomas College$6,25030%
University of New England$5,00020%
Kennebec Valley Community College Foundation$4,50021%
Springfield College$4,00030%
Shenandoah University$3,25010%
Vanderbilt University$3,00010%
Simmons University$3,00020%
Lesley University$3,00020%
Unity Environmental University$3,00030%
University of Hartford$2,00010%
St Joseph's University New York$2,00010%
President and Trustees of Bates College$2,00010%
Bennington College Corporation$2,00010%
William Woods University$2,00010%
University of South Florida$2,0001n/a
American University$2,00010%
Oglethorpe University Inc$2,00010%
University of San Francisco$2,00010%
The President and Trustees of Colby College$2,00010%
Maine College of Art and Design$2,00020%
New England College$2,00010%
Bentley University$1,50010%
Brigham Young University-Idaho$1,0001n/a
Lasell University$1,00010%
Saint Anselm College$1,00010%
University of Northwestern - St Paul$1,00010%
Johnson & Wales University$1,00010%
Hampshire College Trustees$1,00010%
Colby-Sawyer College$1,00010%
Roanoke College$1,00010%
Bryant University$1,00010%
St Lawrence University$1,00010%
University of New Haven$1,00010%
Montserrat College Of Art Inc$1,00010%
Rollins College$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($82k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHusson University: $17,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThomas College: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKennebec Valley Community College Foundation: $4,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSpringfield College: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShenandoah University: $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimmons University: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLesley University: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnity Environmental University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Hartford: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph's University New York: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Trustees of Bates College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBennington College Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Woods University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOglethorpe University Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine College of Art and Design: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew England College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBentley University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLasell University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Anselm College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Northwestern - St Paul: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohnson & Wales University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHampshire College Trustees: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoanoke College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBryant University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontserrat College Of Art Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRollins College: $1,000 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 35.

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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.

Davis Educational FoundationME22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davis Educational Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee · Margaret & Donald Matheson School Portland Trust Co LLC · Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee · Fred Forsyth Educational Fd · Albert H Young · Frederic E Skillings Trust Uw · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · 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 Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC

How much does Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC give?
Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC reported 12 grants totaling $39,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (98%), Environment (1%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Maine System Inc ($51k), Husson University ($18k), Maine Maritime Academy ($13k).
Does Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vera Grace Greenlaw 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 Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Davis Educational Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee.
Where is Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC based?
Vera Grace Greenlaw 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 67 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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