· Private foundation
Ashaway Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Westerly Land Trust | $5,000 |
| The Jonnycake Center of Westerly | $5,000 |
| The Gordon School | $5,000 |
| WARM Inc | $5,000 |
| Wood River Health Services Inc | $4,000 |
| United Way of Rhode Island Inc | $3,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $3,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of RI Inc | $3,000 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $3,000 |
| Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association | $2,000 |
| Oak Grove Cemetery Association | $2,000 |
| Ashaway Free Library | $2,000 |
| RICAN | $2,000 |
| Fall River Deaconess Home | $2,000 |
| Memorial & Library Association of | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +117%- AFAshaway Free Library9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +11%
WOOD RIVER HEALTH SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- TRThe Rhode Island Center Assisting Thoseone grant, 2019 · $2k
- RHROCKY HILL COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -5%
- WHWATCH HILL LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERSone grant, 2024 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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…
The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…
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…
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
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…
Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.
The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE WESTERLY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds Ashaway Free Library ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RI CENTER ASSISTING THOSE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds The Gordon School ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds FALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME ↗
- Who funds WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Washington County ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Chorus of Westerly Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY HOME HEALTH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Horace a & S Ella Kimball Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Forrest C & Frances H Lattner Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Peter and Deborah Lamm Foundation R Bradford Malt Et Al Trustees · Royce Family Fund Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ashaway Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ashaway Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Fall River Deaconess Home: 78% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center: 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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