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Abrams-Bell Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$400
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 45
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$20k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Abrams-Bell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving29$20k14%
FY202428$19k18%
FY202327$15k11%
FY202228$17k4%
FY202130$14k17%
FY202045$15kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$21kHousing & Shelter$16kAnimals$12kHealth$10kArts & Culture$9kInternational$9kHuman Services$4kEducation$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of Abrams-Bell Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Crossroads Rhode Island$8,95060%
Providence Animal Rescue League Inc$7,45060%
Amos House$6,80060%
The Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa Inc$4,50050%
Providence Village of Rhode Island$3,32160%
American Society for Yad Vashem Inc$2,00040%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$1,70060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,65060%
Trinity Repertory Company$1,65060%
New England Disabled Sports$1,40060%
Providence Preservation Society$1,00060%
Helphopelive Inc$1,00010%
Blackstone Parks Conservancy$92560%
Little Rhody Rescue and Quarantine Inc$87930%
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress$80030%
Classical High School Alumni Association Inc$65660%
Children's Friend and Service$65050%
Wellesley College$60060%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$30010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$30010%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$3001n/a
Lawyers for Good Government Inc$30010%
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc$30010%
Americans United for Separation of Church and State$25010%
Birthright Israel Foundation$2001n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$20010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$20010%
Stand Up to Cancer$1501n/a
National Autism Association Inc$12510%
World Central Kitchen Inc$10010%
Jewish Collaborative Services$10010%
Chai Lifeline Inc$1001n/a
United States Fund for Unicef$10010%
American Jewish Historical Society$10010%
American Cancer Society Inc$10010%
The Rhode Island Historical Society$5010%
Southside Community Land Trust$5010%
Simmons University$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($51k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Abrams-Bell Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCrossroads Rhode Island: $8,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence Animal Rescue League Inc: $7,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmos House: $6,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence Village of Rhode Island: $3,321 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company: $1,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Disabled Sports: $1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence Preservation Society: $1,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHelphopelive Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlackstone Parks Conservancy: $925 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Rhody Rescue and Quarantine Inc: $879 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClassical High School Alumni Association Inc: $656 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Friend and Service: $650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers for Good Government Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Independent Documentary Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans United for Separation of Church and State: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of America: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Autism Association Inc: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Collaborative Services: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Historical Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rhode Island Historical Society: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthside Community Land Trust: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimmons University: $50 over 1y, 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 34.

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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.

Amica Companies FoundationRI20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Weisberg Family Foundation · Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation · Ress Family Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The New York Community Trust

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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How do I get to Abrams-Bell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Abrams-Bell Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Abrams-Bell Foundation

How much does Abrams-Bell Foundation give?
Abrams-Bell Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $20,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Abrams-Bell Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (20%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Animals (11%).
Who are Abrams-Bell Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Crossroads Rhode Island ($9k), Providence Animal Rescue League Inc ($7k), Amos House ($7k).
Does Abrams-Bell Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Abrams-Bell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Abrams-Bell Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amica Companies Foundation, The Champlin Foundation, June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated.
Where is Abrams-Bell Foundation based?
Abrams-Bell Foundation is based in RI.

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 66 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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