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Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Maine$58,000
Husson University$34,000
University of Maine at Presque Isle$20,000
University of New England$12,000
University of Southern Maine$8,000
University of Maine at Farmington$7,800
University of Maine at Fort Kent$6,000
University of Maine at Augusta$4,000
Colby College$4,000
Thomas College$4,000
University of New Hampshire$2,000
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago$2,000
Eastern Maine Community College$2,000
Bennington College$2,000
Northern Maine Community College$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wentworth Institute of Technology: $6k → 16%Paul Smith's College: $4k → 16%New Mexico State University: $4k → 23%Roger Williams University: $4k → 7%Neumont College of Computer Science: $4k → 8%Cedarville University: $4k → 9%Liberty University: $4k → 20%Bowdoin College: $7k → 7%University of New England: $13k → 9%University of Maine at Augusta: $10k → 12%University of Maine at Farmington: $8k → 14%University of Maine: $82k → 15%University of Maine at Presque Isle: $23k → 15%University of New Hampshire: $4k → 7%University of New England: $12k → 9%University of Maine at Augusta: $4k → 12%University of Maine at Farmington: $6k → 14%University of Maine: $73k → 15%University of Maine at Presque Isle: $22k → 15%Harvard Univeristy: $6k → 8%University of New England: $10k → 9%University of Maine: $58k → 15%University of Maine at Presque Isle: $20k → 15%University of New England: $5k → 9%University of Maine: $43k → 15%University of Maine at Presque Isle: $11k → 15%University of Southern Maine: $11k → 7%Thomas College: $12k → 12%University of Maine: $41k → 15%Northern Maine Community College: $10k → 15%University of Southern Maine: $8k → 7%Thomas College: $12k → 12%University of Maine: $12k → 15%University of Maine at Presque Isle: $7k → 15%Thomas College: $11k → 12%Husson University: $43k → 15%University of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Thomas College: $8k → 12%Husson University: $34k → 15%Husson University: $30k → 15%University of Southern Maine: $5k → 7%Husson University: $29k → 15%Southern Maine Community College: $6k → 7%Husson University: $19k → 15%Husson University: $18k → 15%University of Maine at Fort Kent: $8k → 15%University of Maine at Fort Kent: $8k → 15%University of Maine at Fort Kent: $6k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
UT
KY
VA
AZ
NM
TN
SC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$986k · 43 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
7

Total granted

$986k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+50%

Still filing today

56%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HU
    Husson University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $171k · revenue +16%
  • TC
    THOMAS COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +28%
  • University of New England
    6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • NC
    Neumont College of Computer Science
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • UO
    University of Arizonia
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • FI
    Fashion Institute of Technology
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
Wake Forest University

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…

Education
3
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Dickinson College

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

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Bentley University

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…

Education
8
Whittier College

Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…

Education
9
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
10
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
11
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
12
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bennington College Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Kennebec Valley Community College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
26/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Maine: $307,800 · OtherUniversity of MaineUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $83,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCUniversity of Maine at Fort Kent: $31,500 · OtherUniversity of Southern Maine: $27,500 · OtherNorthern Maine Community College: $21,000 · Other+22 more: $139,800 · Other+22 moreHusson University: $171,300 · EducationHusson UniversityTHOMAS COLLEGE: $47,500 · EducationTHOMAS COLLEGEUniversity of New England: $46,000 · EducationUniversity of New England+26 more: $144,300 · Education+26 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · Community Improvement
Other$610,900Education$409,100Community Improvement$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHusson University: $171,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE: $47,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $46,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $11,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKennebec Valley Community College Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Husson University ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds University of New England ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Cedarville University ↗
  • Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Kennebec Valley Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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 T…Maine Community Found…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committee. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • Regis College: 1% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 0% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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