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Riggs Student Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
56%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$454k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Riggs Student Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$28k43%
FY20239$55k56%
FY20227$31k0%
FY202111$24k18%
FY20209$25k44%
FY20198$26k38%
FY20189$30k67%
FY20175$24kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$242kEnvironment$2k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
OR
WY
CA
UT
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pacific University$25,00070%
George Fox University$9,00050%
Lane Community College$4,5002n/a
Linfield University$4,00010%
Corporation of Gonzaga University$4,00010%
St Olaf College$3,00030%
Utah Valley University$2,0001n/a
Linn-Benton Community College$2,0001n/a
Clark College$2,0001n/a
National Outdoor Leadership School$1,50010%
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All grantees of Riggs Student Scholarship Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pacific University$25,00070%
George Fox University$9,00050%
Lane Community College$4,5002n/a
Linfield University$4,00010%
Corporation of Gonzaga University$4,00010%
St Olaf College$3,00030%
Utah Valley University$2,0001n/a
Linn-Benton Community College$2,0001n/a
Clark College$2,0001n/a
National Outdoor Leadership School$1,50010%
University of Washington$1,0001n/a
glendale community college$5001n/a
West Texas A&M University$5001n/a

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($184k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Jefferson Scholarship FundWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Riggs Student Scholarship Fund

How much does Riggs Student Scholarship Fund give?
Riggs Student Scholarship Fund reported 7 grants totaling $27,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Riggs Student Scholarship Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (99%), Environment (1%).
Who are Riggs Student Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pacific University ($25k), George Fox University ($9k), Lane Community College ($5k).
Does Riggs Student Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Riggs Student Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Riggs Student Scholarship Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jefferson Scholarship Fund.
Where is Riggs Student Scholarship Fund based?
Riggs Student Scholarship Fund is based in WI.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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