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William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee at a glance

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William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1k
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$158kArts & Culture$4k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,125
Median grant
6
States reached
$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON$1,125
FLAGLER COLLEGE$1,125
ROCHESTER INST OF TECHNOLOGY$1,125
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 11%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%WHEATON COLLEGE: $1k → 11%MOUNT HOLYOKE: $2k → 12%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH WESTERN: $2k → 14%MUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $2k → 10%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $1k → 14%ROCHESTER INST OF TECHNOLOGY: $1k → 14%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%FLAGLER COLLEGE: $2k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $1k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $1k → 15%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 7%SALVE REGINA COLLEGE: $2k → 7%CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%WHEATON COLLEGE: $1k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1k → 9%BOWDOIN: $2k → 7%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - AUGUSTA: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $6k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE PRESQUE ISLE: $2k → 15%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1k → 14%CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMINGTON: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $5k → 15%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $1k → 16%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $3k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $4k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $1k → 7%THOMAS COLLEGE: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $4k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $2k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO: $1k → 15%SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNTIY COLLEGE: $6k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNTIY COLLEGE: $2k → 7%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 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
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
MD
KS
NC
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$135k · 29 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
20

Total granted

$135k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+32%

Still filing today

55%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
    8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    4× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +29%
  • BC
    BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SR
    SALVE REGINA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • Fairfield Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +63%
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
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
2
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
3
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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4
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
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
7
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
8
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
11
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 56 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)
31/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $27,343 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCSOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNTIY COLLEGE: $8,675 · OtherSOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNTIY COLLEGEMAINE MARITIME ACADEMY: $8,550 · OtherMAINE MARITIME ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTON: $6,160 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE FARMINGTONUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $5,825 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINEUNIVERSITY OF MAINE PRESQUE ISLE: $4,900 · OtherEASTERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3,650 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $3,285 · Other+19 more: $27,428 · Other+19 moreHusson University: $9,984 · EducationHusson UniversityRochester Institute of Technology: $5,825 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $3,700 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $3,459 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $3,285 · EducationThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $3,285 · EducationNova Southeastern University Inc: $3,284 · EducationFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $2,625 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $2,625 · EducationCedarville University: $2,500 · EducationJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $2,350 · Education+17 more: $20,403 · Education+17 more
Other$95,816Education$65,825

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHusson University: $9,984 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $5,825 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $3,459 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $3,285 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $3,285 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $3,284 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $2,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $2,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $2,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE: $2,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College: $1,985 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $1,384 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $1,384 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DARTMOUTH INC: $550 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $500 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 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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗

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…Vera Grace Greenlaw T…Maine Community Found…Worthington Scholarsh…F Roger Miller TrustFred Forsyth Educatio…Albert H YoungFrederic E Skillings …Sweetser Foundation I…Melmac Education Foun…Harold Alfond Foundat…Davis Family Foundati…
Davis Educational FoundationME17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee. 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%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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 56 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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