Rhode Island · Private foundation
B Street 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.
- $257k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations B Street Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $252k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $261k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $209k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $178k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $222k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $170k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $186k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $148k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rhode Island Free Clinic Inc | $607,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Frenchman Bay Conservancy | $120,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Wheeler School | $72,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Grand Teton National Park Foundation | $46,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Paws - Providing Animal Welfare Services | $44,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Bowdoin College | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Crossroads Rhode Island | $42,000 | 4 | 0% |
| One22 Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Colgate University | $35,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Hole Food Rescue | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($446k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
B Street Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · John and Dawn Hummel Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Giving Brands · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation
How this is measured
About B Street Foundation
- How much does B Street Foundation give?
- B Street Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $257,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does B Street Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Education (21%), Animals (10%).
- Who are B Street Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Rhode Island Free Clinic Inc ($607k), Frenchman Bay Conservancy ($120k), The Wheeler School ($73k).
- Does B Street Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does B Street Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as B Street Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation.
- Where is B Street Foundation based?
- B Street Foundation is based in RI.
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