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Aquidneck Foundation

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.

$329k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$2.1MCivil Rights$240kEducation$147kScience & Tech$112kReligion$96kRecreation & Sports$68kCommunity Improvement$65kArts & Culture$64kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $210k
$6,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$69k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in William Sonoma.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACLU$210,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$30,000
BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL$25,000
VINFEN GATEWAY ARTS$15,000
DANA-FARBER - PMC$10,000
PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE$10,000
FRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE$6,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$5,000
TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES$5,000
BROOKLYN MUSEUM$5,000
GAINGER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING$1,500
BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY$980
RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOC$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $10k → 12%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $500 → 8%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $3k → 12%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $500 → 8%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $1k → 12%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $500 → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $1k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $500 → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS: $10k → 16%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
IL
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MA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$539k · 32 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
42

Total granted

$539k
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+28%

Still filing today

72%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TB
    THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2025 · $92k · revenue +36%
  • PP
    PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +186%
  • TA
    TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $59k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue +117%
  • CA
    CONGREGATION ADATH ISRAEL TEMPLE ISRAEL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +121%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
5
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
6
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
7
Western New England University

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…

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Westford Rotary Charitable Endowment 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr21%23%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr11%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%74%5–10yr21%2%10–20yr21%4%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr11%9%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
11%
6,457/58,891

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.

04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
46/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC — $2,000,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC+3 more — $8,575 · HealthACLU — $210,000 · OtherACLUTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC — $59,000 · OtherTRANSPORTATION ALTERN…TOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION — $36,000 · OtherTOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUND…DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUITE — $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC — $30,000 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE FO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $25,000 · Other+53 more — $179,571 · Other+53 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $111,500 · EducationPresident…THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL — $92,000 · EducationTHE BERKE…BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $20,000 · EducationBROOKLYN …+7 more — $23,750 · Education+7 morePROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $65,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $50,000 · ReligionPAWSITIVE PANTRY — $45,000 · AnimalsBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $2,230 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Human Services+2 more — $2,000 · Human Services
Health$2,008,575Other$559,571Education$247,250Recreation & Sports$66,000Religion$50,000Animals$47,230Human Services$34,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $111,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL — $92,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC — $59,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPAWSITIVE PANTRY — $45,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetTOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC — $13,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC — $7,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SECOND STEP INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BOSTON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $4,825 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND LAND TRUST — $4,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTerezin Music Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $2,230 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Midsummer Opera Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget18 DEGREES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ROWING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Cummings Foundation G…Berkshire Taconic Com…Rockland Trust Charit…The Feigenbaum Founda…The Hamilton Company …Berkshire Bank Founda…Jewish Communal FundClaudia K Perles Fami…The Greater Barringto…
Boston Foundation IncMA29.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc · The Greater Barrington Foundation Inc Dba the Barrington 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 Aquidneck Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
  • The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
  • Regis College — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University — 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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