Maine · Private foundation
Fred Forsyth Educational Fd
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $38k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2026
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $4,737
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $9,474
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 3
- Total assets, FY2026
- $808k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 22% of the organizations Fred Forsyth Educational Fd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 10 | $38k | 10% |
| FY2025 | 9 | $39k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $62k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $41k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $45k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $40k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $38k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Husson University | $72,480 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Maine System Inc | $18,254 | 3 | n/a |
| Maine Maritime Academy | $13,918 | 3 | n/a |
| Thomas College | $13,891 | 3 | 0% |
| Alfred University | $7,837 | 3 | 0% |
| Maine College of Art and Design | $3,154 | 1 | 0% |
| Grand View University | $2,960 | 2 | 0% |
| Johnson & Wales University | $2,368 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($244k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Albert H Young · William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee · Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC · Davis Educational Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Fred Forsyth Educational Fd
- How much does Fred Forsyth Educational Fd give?
- Fred Forsyth Educational Fd reported 10 grants totaling $38,486 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Fred Forsyth Educational Fd fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Fred Forsyth Educational Fd's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: Husson University ($72k), University of Maine System Inc ($18k), Maine Maritime Academy ($14k).
- Does Fred Forsyth Educational Fd fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fred Forsyth Educational Fd accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fred Forsyth Educational Fd?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert H Young, William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee, Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC.
- Where is Fred Forsyth Educational Fd based?
- Fred Forsyth Educational Fd is based in ME.
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