· Private foundation
Adelaide Dawson Lynch Mem Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JONNYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE DALE | $2,500 |
| MCAULEY CORPORATION | $2,000 |
| Westerly-Area-Rest-Meals-Warm-Inc | $2,000 |
| AMOS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN & FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| Dr Martin Luther King Jr Comm Center | $1,500 |
| BETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND | $1,500 |
| North Kingstown Food Pantry Inc | $1,000 |
| Women's Resource Center | $1,000 |
| Rhode Island Community Food Bank Assoc | $1,000 |
| Little Compton Community Center Corp | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PROVIDENCE | $1,000 |
| CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND | $1,000 |
| EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| BENJAMIN CHURCH SENIOR CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RI INC | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MCAULEY CORPORATION4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +43%
BETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +137%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- BVBLACKSTONE VALLEY ADVOCACY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +76%
- UCUnited Church of Christone grant, 2023 · $2k
THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +66%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To organize, plan and provide social services to low income and elderly individuals.
We seek to minimize hunger and provide nutritional sustenanc
Christian mission to the poor providing food, shelter clothing and counseling to the homeless
To provide with dignity, emergency food and outreach to thousands of at-risk neighbors in southern rhode island and surrounding communities.
The rhode island dream center provides hope and holistic support to the impoverished in the greater rhode island area through food, clothing and services.
Provide nourishing food and basic necessities to the residents of Little Compton and Tiverton Rhode Island.
To supply the necessary food to needy residents
To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity
Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
The mission of mae organization is to work with the homeless and help them transition through workshops, and other related programs
To serve people experiencing homelessness or living in poverty by providing food assistance and services that promote health, community, and equity. the organization serves hot evening meals, packs free bag lunches, stocks food pantry…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jonnycake Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Haven of Grace Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN CHURCH SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BLACKSTONE VALLEY ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds The Haven of Grace Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLACKSTONE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Little Compton Community Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Uw Urania C Sherburne · Harry M Miriam C Will C Horton F · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Adelaide Dawson Lynch Mem Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.