Maine · Private foundation
Jay Ramsdell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $7k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $157k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Jay Ramsdell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $7k | 83% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $6k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $8k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $4k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $5k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $6k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Husson University | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Bar Harbor Food Pantry | $2,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Lasell University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Harbor House Community Service Center | $1,515 | 1 | 0% |
| Bowdoin College | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Endicott College | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hood College | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Maine Basketball Hall of Fame | $685 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jay Ramsdell Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Jay Ramsdell Foundation
- How much does Jay Ramsdell Foundation give?
- Jay Ramsdell Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $7,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jay Ramsdell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Religion (10%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Jay Ramsdell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Husson University ($4k), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc ($3k), Bar Harbor Food Pantry ($2k).
- Does Jay Ramsdell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jay Ramsdell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jay Ramsdell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Jay Ramsdell Foundation based?
- Jay Ramsdell Foundation is based in ME.
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