· Private foundation
Citizens Charitable 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1508 grants · $826k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $223k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $49,800 |
| BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC | $30,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $25,150 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $25,000 |
| PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC | $23,541 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $17,998 |
| E4E RELIEF LLC | $15,899 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC | $14,760 |
| SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC | $10,440 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC | $9,756 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $9,422 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $9,113 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION | $8,569 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC | $8,417 |
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 (FY22–25, $613k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +13% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
1344 repeat relationships: 951 still active in FY2025, 393 since wound down; 174 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION4× · 2022–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +25%
Bucknell University4× · 2022–2025 · $89k · revenue +47%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $84k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UCUNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -7%
AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERSone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +4%- TITECH IMPACTone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +13%
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.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with over 2,046 undergraduate and graduate students.
Education of students
Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.
Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.
Easter seals massachusetts is a statewide community-based organization that has been helping people with disabilities to live full and independent lives for over 75 years. our mission is to provide services to ensure that children and…
Inspire students to contribute to knowledge, justice and positive change.
The mission of united way of connecticut is to help the people of connecticut to thrive through trusted partnerships and innovative solutions.
We are ct's only locally owned media organization producing tv, radio, print and internet content with a mix of educational, new, public affairs, children's and entertainment programming.
To support its exempt affiliates.
How this is measured
1691 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1691 of the 2,000 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds TECH IMPACT ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds FOSTER FORWARD ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
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: The Champlin Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Amica Companies Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Citizens Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Citizens Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Arc Massachusetts Inc: 100% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford: 39% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc: 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc: 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: 8% of income from government
- Open Table Inc: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc: 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
- Project Just Because Inc: 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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