· Private foundation
Jay Ramsdell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| EASTERN MAINE TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $1,500 |
| MDI HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $1,100 |
| MAINE SEACOAST MISSION DE FOOD | $1,100 |
| ELLSWORTH CHALLENGER LITTLE LEAGUE | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +269% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MAINE4× · 2020–2024 · $9k
- SMSEACOAST MISSION3× · 2019–2023 · $4k
- HUHusson University3× · 2018–2022 · $4k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- EAEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +7%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MAINE PRESQUE ISLEone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MCMAINE COLLEGE OF HEALTH PROFone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
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…
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
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…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Hastings college is a private, co-education, residential, liberal arts college founded in 1882.
See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Harbor House Community Service Center ↗
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- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jay Ramsdell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jay Ramsdell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Lasell University: 4% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
- Endicott College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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