· Private foundation
William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee
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: 59% of WILLIAM SEARLS SCHOLARSHIP FUND FIRST NATIONAL BANK TRUSTEE’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPIRE BEAUTY SCHOOL | $1,200 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $1,200 |
| WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY | $1,200 |
| MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY | $1,200 |
| YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,200 |
| MUHLENBERG COLLEGE | $1,200 |
| BOWDOIN | $1,125 |
| HUSSON UNIVERSITY | $1,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO | $1,125 |
| HARTPURY UNIVERSITY | $1,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH WESTERN | $1,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $1,125 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON | $1,125 |
| FLAGLER COLLEGE | $1,125 |
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 11%. 72% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 University8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +38%
Rochester Institute of Technology4× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +29%- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- SRSALVE REGINA COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2024 · $2k
Fairfield Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +63%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dartmouth 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 76 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.
31 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. 31 of the 56 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 Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Worthington Scholarship Foundation · F Roger Miller Trust · Fred Forsyth Educational Fd · Albert H Young · Frederic E Skillings Trust Uw · Sweetser Foundation Inc · Melmac Education Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Davis Family 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 William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Lasell University — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 0% of income from government
- Western New England University — 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music 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.