How much does The President and Trustees of Colby College give?

The President and Trustees of Colby College reported 8 itemized grants totaling $252,194, out of $74,302,194 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The President and Trustees of Colby College fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Public Benefit (27%), Community Improvement (24%).

Who are The President and Trustees of Colby College's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Maine Growth Council ($441k), Waterville Creates ($412k), City of Waterville ($298k).

Does The President and Trustees of Colby College fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The President and Trustees of Colby College?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation, Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation.

Where is The President and Trustees of Colby College based?

The President and Trustees of Colby College is based in ME.

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Maine · Public charity

The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

$74M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2025: 7
Organizations funded FY2024: 14%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $252k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $84,766
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 11; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $2.5B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The President and Trustees of Colby College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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	8	$252k	25%
FY2024	7	$381k	14%
FY2023	6	$262k	50%
FY2022	4	$174k	0%
FY2021	8	$180k	63%
FY2020	5	$97k	40%
FY2019	11	$294k	36%
FY2018	9	$208k	33%

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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 2025.

Arts & Culture$692kPublic Benefit$551kCommunity Improvement$494kRecreation & Sports$80kReligion$57kYouth Development$31kFood & Nutrition$30kHealth$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Central Maine Growth Council	$441,090	9	25%
Waterville Creates	$411,905	9	4%
City of Waterville	$297,500	6	n/a
Town of St George	$253,879	3	n/a
Waterville Opera House Improvement Association	$123,495	4	31%
Maine Film Center	$91,347	3	4%
Congregation Beth Israel	$56,500	2	n/a
Carrabassett Valley Academy	$50,000	2	1%
Alfond Youth & Community Center	$31,150	4	0%
Children's Discovery Museum	$30,200	3	5%

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All grantees of The President and Trustees of Colby College by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Central Maine Growth Council	$441,090	9	25%
Waterville Creates	$411,905	9	4%
City of Waterville	$297,500	6	n/a
Town of St George	$253,879	3	n/a
Waterville Opera House Improvement Association	$123,495	4	31%
Maine Film Center	$91,347	3	4%
Congregation Beth Israel	$56,500	2	n/a
Carrabassett Valley Academy	$50,000	2	1%
Alfond Youth & Community Center	$31,150	4	0%
Children's Discovery Museum	$30,200	3	5%
Waterville Main Street	$30,000	1	23%
Friends of Quarry Road	$30,000	2	5%
Kennebec Valley Dental Coalition	$25,000	1	2%
University of Chicago	$15,000	1	0%
Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce	$13,180	2	1%
Mid-Maine Global Forum	$12,500	1	n/a
Maine National Guard Foundation Fund	$11,822	2	6%
Maine College of Art and Design	$10,000	1	0%
Herring Gut Learning Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Kennebec Valley Council of Governments	$10,000	1	1%
Kennebec Montessori School	$10,000	1	1%
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting	$10,000	1	2%
Equal Justice Initiative	$9,606	1	0%
National Black Child Development Institute	$9,295	1	0%
Maine Inside Out	$8,538	1	1%
Waterville Area Soup Kitchen	$7,800	1	5%
Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc	$7,293	1	1%
Waterville Public Schools	$7,000	1	n/a
Smithsonian Institution	$6,416	1	0%
Sacred Heart Soup Kitchen Inc	$6,064	1	n/a
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets	$5,719	1	n/a

The President and Trustees of Colby College supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 23.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME34.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Raymond J and Mary C Reisert Foundation Inc · Harold Alfond Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Borman Family Foundation · Waterville Area Women's Club · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · United Way of Kennebec Valley

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 President and Trustees of Colby College

How much does The President and Trustees of Colby College give?: The President and Trustees of Colby College reported 8 itemized grants totaling $252,194, out of $74,302,194 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The President and Trustees of Colby College fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Public Benefit (27%), Community Improvement (24%).
Who are The President and Trustees of Colby College's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Maine Growth Council ($441k), Waterville Creates ($412k), City of Waterville ($298k).
Does The President and Trustees of Colby College fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The President and Trustees of Colby College?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation, Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation.
Where is The President and Trustees of Colby College based?: The President and Trustees of Colby College is based in ME.