· Private foundation
Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of VERA GRACE GREENLAW TRUST PORTLAND TRUST CO LLC’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO | $13,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $3,000 |
| RIT | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FORT KENT | $3,000 |
| HUSSON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +23% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
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
- HUHusson University9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +38%
- BCBowdoin College4× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +94%
- TCTHOMAS COLLEGE3× · 2018–2021 · $6k · revenue +23%
Funded once
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +18%
Vanderbilt Universityone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +24%- NMNORTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
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…
Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Anselm College and the most unlike its peers is American University. 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 72 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% 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 9% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 67 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 Husson University ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds Kennebec Valley Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Unity Environmental University ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds New England College ↗
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: 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
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 Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC 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.
- Montserrat College of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 1% of income from government
- Lasell University — 1% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Simmons University — 0% of income from government
- Springfield College — 0% of income from government
- Lesley University — 0% of income from government
- Bentley University — 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.