· Private foundation
Ashaway Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| 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 |
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 (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. 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you 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
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
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
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Langworthy Public Library. 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 53 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 53 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 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 WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC ↗
- Who funds FALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Ashaway 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.
- 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
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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