· Private foundation
Cielo Azul 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DR MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER | $110,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $5,000 |
| IMPACT 100 NEWPORT CO | $1,145 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED4× · 2022–2025 · $428k · revenue -43%- MCMLK COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $206k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2020–2022 · $23k
Funded once
- GGENAUSTINgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +32%
- ATAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +235%
- OHOLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +711%
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.
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.
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.
The newport string project is a chamber music performance and youth mentoring initiative committed to making inspiring musical experiences accessible for all in newport, ri. string instrument lessons are provided free of charge to students…
Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.
Gloucester marine genomics institute's mission is to address critical challenges in ocean health, human health, and the environment through innovative marine biotechnology research and transformative science education. by combining…
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.
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…
Support and encourage a collaborative community of the visual, performing and literary arts through education, grants, scholarships and events.
The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and…
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…
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GENAUSTIN ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT SINGS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cielo Azul Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cielo Azul Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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