· Public charity
Brown Physicians Inc
To support the purposes of the warren alpert medical school of brown university, as well as other tax-exempt nonprofit hospitals in rhode island.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $313k
- $250k+6 grants · $9.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWN UROLOGY INC | $4,228,292 |
| BROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE | $1,600,421 |
| BROWN MEDICINE | $1,269,708 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH | $1,111,869 |
| UNIVERSITY SURGICAL ASSOCIATES INC DBA BROWN SURGICAL ASSOCIATES | $801,887 |
| BROWN DERMATOLOGY | $323,503 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $160,566 |
| BROWN NEUROLOGY INC | $99,907 |
| RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $52,100 |
| THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL | $34,600 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PROVIDENCE | $5,920 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +51% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.4M 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
Rhode Island Hospital Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $264k · revenue +3%
The Miriam Hospital7× · 2018–2024 · $174k · revenue +51%
Rhode Island Hospital2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +59%
Funded once
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
BHMG provides accountable patient-centered, high quality, efficient, value-based care to serve the health care needs of Rhode Islanders and others. BHMG's mission is: Delivering health with care.
CMPI was organized to provide accountable patient-centered, high quality, efficient, value-based and innovative care to serve the health needs of the communities in Rhode Island and elsewhere. (see Schedule O)
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)
BUHF operates exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, and more specifically, for the purpose of supporting and otherwise benefiting and being responsive to the needs of Brown University Health. (see Sched.O)
To be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, and more specifically, for the purpose of supporting and otherwise benefiting and being responsive to the needs of Brown University Health and its affiliates.
BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…
Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, and more specifically, for the purpose of supporting and otherwise benefiting and being responsive to the needs of Brown University Health and its affiliates.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown Urology Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 BROWN UROLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Lifespan Corporation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SURGICAL ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN DERMATOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital ↗
- Who funds BROWN NEUROLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Brown Physicians Inc 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.
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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