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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
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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.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$252k15%
FY202424$261k17%
FY202326$209k27%
FY202224$178k8%
FY202124$222k13%
FY202022$170k9%
FY201921$186k43%
FY201816$148k50%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$878kEducation$390kAnimals$183kEnvironment$125kHuman Services$88kPhilanthropy$56kHousing & Shelter$42kFood & Nutrition$36kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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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.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Rhode Island Free Clinic Inc: $607,000 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $120,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe Wheeler School: $72,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGrand Teton National Park Foundation: $46,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPaws - Providing Animal Welfare Services: $44,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $44,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Rhode Island: $42,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOne22 Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetColgate University: $35,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHole Food Rescue: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHonoring Our Veterans: $35,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetJackson Hole Therapeutic Riding: $34,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetJackson Hole Wildlife Foundation: $32,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFrenchman Bay United: $25,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetTeton County Library Foundation & Friends: $21,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBeachwood Center for Wellbeing: $15,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOff Square Theatre Company: $11,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSorrento Public Library: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetFenway Community Health Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Academy of Nursing: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSophia Academy: $7,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRhode Island Zoological Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCowden Street Collaborative Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConservation Law Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Phillips Academy: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence After School Alliance: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew England Ski Museum Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFirstworks: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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