Feoffees Contributions
from the Little Neck summer colony trust
to Ipswich Public Schools

Here is a graphical presentation of the contributions from the Feoffees of the Grammar School trust to the Ipswich Public Schools over recent decades. The income to the Feoffees comes from the Little Neck summer colony (more specifically either rents or an endowment fund created by the sale), and ultimately benefits Ipswich's public schools.

The numbers behind this graph were collected and published by the Town Committee on The Feoffees, and are now available inside the Town Committee Report Portfolio on the town website (note that although the numbers are generally accepted as accurate, there remains some question about some of them.)

Feoffees Trust contributions, dollars each year - the graph:

The graph illustrates:

1. Market-rate rents did not trigger the renters' strike. The phase-in of market rate rents was completed three years before the renters' strike began.
2. Too-low rents and the renters' strike are separate problems. Although both problems resulted in no contributions to Ipswich Schools, they happened at different times.
3. Five consecutive years of reasonable contributions suggested the Feoffees issue was resolved. But then the renters' strike made the Feoffees an issue all over again.

(The Feoffees Trust or the Little Neck trust or The Feoffees of the Grammar School is a very old endowment for the benefit of Ipswich Public Schools.)