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Bazarsky Family 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MArts & Culture$1.2MYouth Development$868kHealth$739kFood & Nutrition$667kRecreation & Sports$346kReligion$241kHuman Services$236kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $469k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $357k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROGERS TECH ENDOWMENT FUND$350,000
MARTIN LUTHER KING CENTER$75,400
PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL$70,000
NEWPORT HOSPITAL$60,375
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$51,000
FABNEWPORT$50,000
BIKE NEWPORT$50,000
CONGREGATION JESHUAT ISRAEL$49,494
SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY$41,825
ST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$40,000
STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM$35,000
NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION$35,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWPORT COUNTY$35,000
NEWPORT CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL$30,100
JEWISH ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND$27,500
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 (FY19–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $100k → 7%ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%NEWPORT PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 7%ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 14%LOOKING UPWARDS: $2k → 7%LOOKING UPWARDS: $1k → 7%LOOKING UPWARDS: $1k → 7%LOOKING UPWARDS: $1k → 7%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $500 → 7%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $40k → 7%NEWPORT PRIDE: $11k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 7%NEWPORT PRIDE: $1k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 60 repeat orgs$740k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
51

Total granted

$5.4M
$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+19%

Still filing today

52%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $501k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • Newport Hospital
    8× · 2018–2025 · $462k · revenue +40%
  • SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $434k · revenue +52%
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $361k · revenue +191%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHURCH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +32%
  • EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -4%
  • BT
    BOYS TOWN
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

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Newport Community School

Newport community school provides educational opportunities to complement classroom learning and support academic success, personal responsibility and economic self-sufficiency in a vibrant engaged commmunity.

Education
2
Newport Public Library

The mission of the Newport Public Library: To bring people, ideas, and information for the good of every individual and the community it services. The library aims to be a leading resource for information and the center for lifelong…

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3
Newport Community Trust
Philanthropy
4
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Portsmouth Reads
Education
8
Newport Hospital Foundation

NHF supports, encourages and coordinates the development of comprehensive, integrated health care-related services for the advancement and well-being of the community, in furtherance of the purposes of Newport Hospital (see Schedule O)

Health
9
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
10
Providence Children's Museum

The mission of the providence children's museum is to inspire and celebrate learning through active play and exploration. the museum welcomes children and adults of all ages and backgrounds and from all communities although its focus is on…

Arts & Culture
11
Newport Restoration Foundation

Nrf promotes and invests in the heritage of the newport community, the traditional building trades, and doris duke's fine and decorative arts and collections, for the enjoyment, education and inspiration to all.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services of Newport County; the most unlike its peers is The Scudder Association Foundation 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

60 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. 60 of the 128 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
43/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARTIN LUTHER KING CENTER: $664,568 · OtherMARTIN LUTHER KING CENTERROGERS TECH ENDOWMENT FUND: $350,000 · OtherROGERS TECH ENDOWMENT FUNDJEWISH ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND: $309,223 · OtherJEWISH ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLANDBOYS TOWN OF NEW ENGLAND: $235,580 · OtherBOYS TOWN OF NEW ENGLANDST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $179,675 · OtherST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $160,000 · OtherCONGREGATION JESHUAT ISRAEL: $139,858 · OtherPORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL: $116,000 · Other+85 more: $936,114 · Other+85 moreSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $433,825 · EducationSALVE REGINA UN…FABNEWPORT INC: $174,950 · EducationFABNEWPORT INCOUTER COAST: $67,500 · EducationOUTER COASTNEWPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $53,039 · EducationNEWPORT PUBLIC …NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $50,000 · EducationNEWPORTFALL RIV…+4 more: $40,000 · EducationTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $355,400 · Arts & CultureTHE PRESERVAT…NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $156,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT FESTI…NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $114,916 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT CONTE…NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION: $36,250 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WILL INC: $33,400 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT STRING PROJECT: $26,250 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $19,226 · Arts & CultureBIKE NEWPORT: $291,122 · EnvironmentSAVE THE BAY INC: $182,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,500 · EnvironmentNewport Hospital: $462,312 · Health+3 more: $5,600 · HealthBoys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc: $361,155 · Youth DevelopmentNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $100,500 · Human ServicesEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $40,000 · Human ServicesNEWPORT PRIDE INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesNEWPORT PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $6,000 · Human Services+2 more: $6,800 · Human Services
Other$3,091,018Education$819,314Arts & Culture$741,442Environment$474,622Health$467,912Youth Development$361,155Human Services$175,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNewport Hospital: $462,312 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $433,825 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc: $361,155 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $355,400 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBIKE NEWPORT: $291,122 over 8y, 14% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $182,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $179,675 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFABNEWPORT INC: $174,950 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $156,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $114,916 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $100,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBABY STEPS: $76,500 over 4y, 67% of budgetOUTER COAST: $67,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetNEWPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $53,039 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $50,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCHURCH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION: $36,250 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCHOIR SCHOOL OF NEWPORT COUNTY INC: $36,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $34,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC: $33,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT STRING PROJECT: $26,250 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetWORCESTER ACADEMY: $19,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST: $19,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEWPORT PRIDE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSIDE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetNEWPORT PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFour Hearts Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStages of Freedom: $5,750 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Scudder Association Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLOOKING UPWARDS INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEWPORT SKATEPARK: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN IN FILM: $3,576 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Newport Tree Conservancy: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,026 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversal Promise: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds Newport Hospital ↗
  • Who funds SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BIKE NEWPORT ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FABNEWPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
  • Who funds BABY STEPS ↗
  • Who funds OUTER COAST ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHOIR SCHOOL OF NEWPORT COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT STRING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗

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.

Van Beuren Charitable…The Rhode Island Comm…Frederick Henry Princ…The Champlin Foundati…Ejmp Fund for Philant…The de Ramel Foundati…Gruben Charitable Fou…Alletta Morris McBean…Middlecott FoundationUnited Way of Rhode I…Newportfed Charitable…Banknewport Charitabl…
Van Beuren Charitable Foundation IncNY63.2× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Champlin Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · The de Ramel Foundation · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Middlecott Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Newportfed Charitable Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Bazarsky Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bazarsky Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Bazarsky Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bazarsky Family Foundation 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 128 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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The camps
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