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Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC at a glance

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Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$556k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO$13,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FORT KENT$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$3,000
RIT$3,000
HUSSON UNIVERSITY$2,500
BATES COLLEGE$2,000
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$2,000
MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY$2,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$2,000
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$2,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $3k → 12%SIMMONS COLLEGE: $2k → 16%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $2k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $2k → 10%RIT: $3k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE: $2k → 20%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $2k → 11%OGELTHORPE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $2k → 11%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%KEENE STATE COLLEGE: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $3k → 9%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $3k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $4k → 9%THOMAS COLLEGE: $3k → 12%BATES COLLEGE: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON: $4k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $13k → 15%NORTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 15%KENNEBEC VALLEY COMM COLLEGE: $4k → 15%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE: $2k → 7%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $2k → 7%COLBY COLLEGE: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - PRESQUE ISLE: $2k → 15%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $2k → 7%THOMAS COLLEGE: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $8k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FORT KENT: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - ORONO: $7k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - ORONO: $7k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $4k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - ORONO: $4k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - ORONO: $4k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - ORONO: $4k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $3k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 15%EASTERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$167k · 18 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
40

Total granted

$167k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+6%

Still filing today

56%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

Backed again, and grew

  • HU
    Husson University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +38%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    4× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +94%
  • TC
    THOMAS COLLEGE
    3× · 2018–2021 · $6k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +18%
  • Vanderbilt University
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +24%
  • NM
    NORTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
2
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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3
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
4
Dean College

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,…

Education
5
Western New England University

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…

Education
6
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
7
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
8
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
9
Goucher College

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…

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Franklin University

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…

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12
Benedictine University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Anselm College; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
21/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $50,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCUNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $14,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINEMAINE MARITIME ACADEMY: $13,000 · OtherMAINE MARITIME ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $12,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINEUNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON: $9,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTONEASTERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5,500 · Other+27 more: $50,750 · Other+27 moreHusson University: $17,500 · EducationHusson UniversityBowdoin College: $7,500 · EducationBowdoin CollegeTHOMAS COLLEGE: $6,250 · EducationTHOMAS COLLEGEUniversity of New England: $5,000 · EducationUniversity of New EnglandSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $3,250 · EducationVanderbilt University: $3,000 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationUnity Environmental University: $3,000 · Education+25 more: $36,500 · Education+25 more
Other$155,500Education$89,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetWheaton College: $1,000 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Unity Environmental University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
  • Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds New England College ↗

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 Fou…Maine Community Found…William Searls Schola…Margaret & Donald Mat…Ricker College Schola…Fred Forsyth Educatio…Albert H YoungFrederic E Skillings …Bangor Savings Bank F…Davis Family Foundati…Fidelity FoundationVerizon Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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