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Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$614k
Granted FY2025still arriving
106
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$123kFood & Nutrition$88kEducation$76kCommunity Improvement$70kArts & Culture$58kHealth$54kHousing & Shelter$41kRecreation & Sports$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k82 grants · $296k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $318k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$25,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION (LISC)$20,000
HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS$20,000
PAWTUCKET CENTRAL FALLS DEVELOPMENT$15,000
STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM$15,000
SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY$15,000
HOPE & MAIN$15,000
PROJECT GOAL INC$15,000
CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$15,000
BIKE NEWPORT$12,000
FEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION$11,000
CENTRAL FALLS FOUNDATION$10,000
JOHN CLARKE NURSING AND RETIREMENT CENTER$10,000
IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN NEW ENGLAND: $10k → 7%TIDES FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 7%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $4k → 14%LOOKING UPWARDS INC: $5k → 7%BOYS TOWN NEW ENGLAND: $5k → 7%PROJECT WEBERRENEW: $2k → 14%BENJAMIN CHURCH SENIOR CENTER INC: $1k → 7%PROGRESO LATINO: $1k → 14%ACCESS POINT RI: $1k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $3k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $11k → 14%JAMES L MAHER CENTER: $8k → 7%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $4k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $2k → 14%NEWPORT PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES: $2k → 7%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $8k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $4k → 14%ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%REFUGEE DREAM CENTER: $5k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115k · 6 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 100 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$115k
$588k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $19k · revenue +44%
  • BT
    Boys Town New England Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $584k
  • FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +38%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…

Health
2
Preserve Rhode Island

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Parent Support Network of Rhode Island

The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…

Human Services
4
Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council

Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.

Public Benefit
5
Rhode Island Housing Development Corporation

Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island

Housing & Shelter
6
Rhode Island Food Policy Council

Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.

Food & Nutrition
7
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc

Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…

Health
8
Day of Portugal and Portuguese Heritage in Ri Inc

To celabrate the day of portugal in the state of rhode island

Human Services
9
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

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…

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10
Rhode Island Public Radio

To provide quality journalism and compelling storytelling that informs, educates, and inspirescommunity.

—
11
Nami Rhode Island

The mission of NAMI Rhode Island is to educate the public about mental illness; to offer resources and support to all whose lives are touched by mental illness; to advocate at every level to ensure the rights and dignity of those with…

Health
12
Jamaican Association of Rhode Island
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island; the most unlike its peers is Winners Circle Xr Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/90
Grantees still filing
31/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $583,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+51 more: $310,500 · Other+51 moreBoys Town New England Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $12,000 · Human ServicesFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesJAMES L MAHER CENTER: $8,000 · Human ServicesRefugee Development Center: $5,000 · Human ServicesLOOKING UPWARDS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · Human ServicesBEAUTIFUL DAY: $3,500 · Human Services+9 more: $14,500 · Human ServicesRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Food & NutritionNorthern RI Food Pantry: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionEAST BAY FOOD PANTRY: $6,000 · Food & NutritionTHE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES CENTER OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $15,000 · EducationSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationNEWPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $8,000 · EducationFABNEWPORT INC: $7,000 · EducationCOLLEGE VISIONS: $4,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE PROMISE: $2,500 · Education+3 more: $5,000 · EducationIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBLITHEWOLD INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET RI: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFIRSTWORKS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureRI Slave History Medallions: $3,000 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH COUNTY MUSEUM INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTrinity Repertory Company: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBATTLE OF RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT GOAL INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsSAIL NEWPORT: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBIKE NEWPORT: $12,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE BAY INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentPOCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentCONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentAQUIDNECK COMMUNITY TABLE: $4,000 · EnvironmentEASTERN RHODE ISLAND CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $2,500 · Environment
Other$894,000Human Services$82,000Food & Nutrition$81,000Education$66,500Arts & Culture$54,500Recreation & Sports$35,000Environment$34,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE & MAIN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Town New England Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAWTUCKET CENTRAL FALLS DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIKE NEWPORT: $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDA VINCI CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMCAULEY CORPORATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLITHEWOLD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING AROUND MINISTRIES INC TURNING AROUND MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMAE ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRefugee Development Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOOKING UPWARDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRSTWORKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Services of Newport and Bristol Counties Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE VISIONS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH PRIDE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY MUSEUM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEASTERN RHODE ISLAND CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDESIGNXRI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE PROMISE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIA ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRI SCHOOL FOR PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBATTLE OF RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRhode Islanders Sponsoring Education: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…The Champlin Foundati…United Way of Rhode I…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Centreville Savings B…Amica Companies Found…Washington Trust Co C…The Beacon FoundationVan Beuren Charitable…Bristol County Saving…Citizens Charitable F…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI131.7× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Beacon Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 108 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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