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Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Pawtucket Foundation | $18,000 |
| Rhode Island College | $15,500 |
| Reach out and Read RI | $10,000 |
| Boston University | $7,000 |
| Pawtucket Public Schools | $5,000 |
| Brown University | $2,500 |
| Emerson College | $2,500 |
| Vermont State University | $2,500 |
| City of Pawtucket | $2,500 |
| Mercy Mount Country Day School | $2,300 |
| Connecticut College | $2,000 |
| University of Kentucky | $2,000 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $2,000 |
| Davidson College | $2,000 |
| Clark University | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 12 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET5× · 2021–2025 · $99k · revenue +50%
MCAULEY CORPORATION4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +15%- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC4× · 2021–2024 · $48k · revenue +16%
Funded once
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +8%- WCWorld Central Kitchen Incorporatedone grant, 2022 · $29k
- FRFeed RIone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
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.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
Education and Research
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Rhode Island Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Flower District. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 92 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET ↗
- Who funds PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKS ARE WINGS ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds FIRSTWORKS ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Blackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Feed RI ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds TENDERFEET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING MINDS ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FACE Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
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 · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn
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 Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
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.
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