How much does Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee give?

Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee reported 26 grants totaling $189,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

Who are Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Husson University ($171k), University of Maine System Inc ($83k), Thomas College ($48k).

Does Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

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Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$190k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2025: 31
Organizations funded FY2024: 16%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $2,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $58,000
Organizations funded a year: 15 to 36; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 9
Total assets, FY2025: $6.8M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	25	$188k	12%
FY2024	31	$220k	16%
FY2023	36	$276k	25%
FY2022	27	$125k	30%
FY2021	15	$56k	20%
FY2020	25	$142k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.0MReligion$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 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	$171,300	6	0%
University of Maine System Inc	$83,300	6	n/a
Thomas College	$47,500	6	0%
University of New England	$46,000	6	0%
Maine Maritime Academy	$18,500	5	n/a
Bowdoin College	$11,800	4	0%
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc	$10,000	3	0%
Liberty University Inc	$10,000	4	0%
Cedarville University	$8,500	4	0%
Bennington College Corporation	$8,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Husson University	$171,300	6	0%
University of Maine System Inc	$83,300	6	n/a
Thomas College	$47,500	6	0%
University of New England	$46,000	6	0%
Maine Maritime Academy	$18,500	5	n/a
Bowdoin College	$11,800	4	0%
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc	$10,000	3	0%
Liberty University Inc	$10,000	4	0%
Cedarville University	$8,500	4	0%
Bennington College Corporation	$8,000	4	0%
Messiah University	$8,000	4	0%
Roger Williams University	$8,000	3	0%
President and Trustees of Bates College	$6,500	4	0%
Paul Smiths College	$6,000	2	0%
The President and Trustees of Colby College	$6,000	2	0%
The George Washington University	$6,000	4	0%
Monmouth University Inc	$6,000	3	0%
Bryant University	$4,500	3	0%
Rochester Institute of Technology	$4,500	3	0%
Saint Michael's College	$4,000	2	0%
Regis College	$4,000	2	0%
Kennebec Valley Community College Foundation	$4,000	2	0%
Southern Wesleyan University	$4,000	2	0%
Western Michigan University	$4,000	2	n/a
President and Fellows of Middlebury College	$4,000	2	0%
Trustees of Clark University	$3,000	2	0%
Johnson & Wales University	$3,000	2	0%
Colby-Sawyer College	$2,000	1	0%
Trustees of Boston College	$1,500	1	0%
Calvin University	$1,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($501k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLCME13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee

How much does Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee give?: Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee reported 26 grants totaling $189,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Religion (1%).
Who are Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Husson University ($171k), University of Maine System Inc ($83k), Thomas College ($48k).
Does Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLC, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee based?: Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee is based in ME.