· Private foundation
Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k15 grants · $385k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| SRBA HISTORIC BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NEWPORT COUNTY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC | $250,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND | $250,000 |
| OLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND | $250,000 |
| BOYS CLUB & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWPORT COUNTY INC | $250,000 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST | $160,000 |
| BELMONT CHAPEL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEWPORT | $140,000 |
| ARTILLERY COMPANY OF NEWPORT | $120,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT INC | $115,000 |
| EMMANUEL CHURCH | $115,000 |
| THE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST | $100,000 |
| STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $100,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% 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.
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 7% of Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust’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 +67% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $648k 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
- NHNewport Hospital Foundation5× · 2018–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +30%
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +193%- RIRHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT6× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +118% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- SJST JOHN THE EVANGELISTone grant, 2020 · $466k
- LFLA FARGE RESTORATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $300k
- SCSAINT COLUMBA'S THE BERKELEY MEMORIAL CHAPELone grant, 2021 · $300k
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.
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
To celabrate the day of portugal in the state of rhode island
The mission of the Newport Public Library: To bring people, ideas, and information for the good of every individual and the community it services. The library aims to be a leading resource for information and the center for lifelong…
The newport public library seeks to strengthen the community by providing opportunities that support life long learning, inspiration, imagination, enjoyment and connect people to each other and to the rest of the world.
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…
Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.
The Rhode Island Natural History Survey is an independent nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to gather and disseminate information on Rhode Islands animals and plants geology and ecosystems to facilitate communication among the diverse…
The mission of the East Providence Historical Society is to enrich and educate the citizens of East Providence and surrounding communities about its history through excellent museum experiences and qualify educational programs that are…
Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.
Bike newport's mission is to ensure that bicycling is a viable, safe, and comfortable primary choice for transportation and recreation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newport Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Newport String Project. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 85 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 Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds BELMONT CHAPEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc ↗
- Who funds SRBA HISTORIC BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND KIDS COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds FORT ADAMS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT STRING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Bradley Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Visiting Nurse Services of Newport and Bristol Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds PORTSMOUTH FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT SINGS ↗
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: Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Newportfed Charitable Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Gruben Charitable Foundation
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 Alletta Morris McBean Charitable 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.
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