Maine · Private foundation
Reny Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $380k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 105
- Grants FY2024
- 125
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 125
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Reny Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 102 | $364k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 125 | $334k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 117 | $385k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 103 | $375k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $285k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $278k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 87 | $340k | 36% |
| FY2017 | 81 | $242k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust | $275,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Community Energy Fund of Lincoln County | $160,000 | 4 | 25% |
| Lincoln Academy | $147,300 | 8 | 0% |
| Midcoast Conservancy | $109,250 | 8 | 2% |
| Maine Maritime Museum | $92,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Maine Farmland Trust | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Twin Villages Alliance | $51,300 | 2 | 30% |
| Portland Public Schools | $50,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Hearty Roots Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 13% |
| Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 136 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 139 recipients with no EIN on record ($872k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Reny Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 122 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Onion Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation
How this is measured
About Reny Charitable Foundation
- How much does Reny Charitable Foundation give?
- Reny Charitable Foundation reported 105 grants totaling $379,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 125 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Reny Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (25%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Reny Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ($275k), The Community Energy Fund of Lincoln County ($160k), Lincoln Academy ($147k).
- Does Reny Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Reny Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Reny Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation, Davis Family Foundation.
- Where is Reny Charitable Foundation based?
- Reny Charitable Foundation is based in ME.
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