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The Olga D Rasmussen Award

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$97k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2026
17
Organizations funded FY2025
59%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$14,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 17
FY2020 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
6
Total assets, FY2026
$128k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 59% of the organizations The Olga D Rasmussen Award funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving19$97k26%
FY202517$64k59%
FY202414$74k36%
FY20238$49k50%
FY20221$7k0%
FY20213$20k67%
FY20205$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2026.

Education$331k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Georgetown University$36,00030%
St John Fisher University$30,00050%
Russell Sage College$28,00040%
Northeastern University$21,00040%
Utica University$17,00060%
Thomas Jefferson University$14,0001n/a
Hartwick College$13,00020%
Ithaca College$12,00030%
Centenary University$10,0002n/a
Liberty University Inc$10,00020%
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All grantees of The Olga D Rasmussen Award by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Georgetown University$36,00030%
St John Fisher University$30,00050%
Russell Sage College$28,00040%
Northeastern University$21,00040%
Utica University$17,00060%
Thomas Jefferson University$14,0001n/a
Hartwick College$13,00020%
Ithaca College$12,00030%
Centenary University$10,0002n/a
Liberty University Inc$10,00020%
Marywood University$9,0001n/a
Nazareth University$8,00040%
Trustees of Boston University$8,0001n/a
Marist University$6,00040%
Flagler College Inc$4,00010%
Paul Smiths College$4,00010%
Florida Institute of Technology Inc$4,00010%
Le Moyne College$4,00010%
Suny Cortland$4,0002n/a
Azusa Pacific University$3,00010%
Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc$2,00020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Olga D Rasmussen Award supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGeorgetown University: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt John Fisher University: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRussell Sage College: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUtica University: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIthaca College: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty University Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNazareth University: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarist University: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFlagler College Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaul Smiths College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Institute of Technology Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLe Moyne College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAzusa Pacific University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Atlantic University Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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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 16.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 The Olga D Rasmussen Award

How much does The Olga D Rasmussen Award give?
The Olga D Rasmussen Award reported 19 grants totaling $96,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
What does The Olga D Rasmussen Award fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are The Olga D Rasmussen Award's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Georgetown University ($36k), St John Fisher University ($30k), Russell Sage College ($28k).
Does The Olga D Rasmussen Award fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Olga D Rasmussen Award accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Olga D Rasmussen Award?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The Olga D Rasmussen Award based?
The Olga D Rasmussen Award is based in NY.

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 31 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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