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Collette 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k95 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $228k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Pack Shack | $42,250 |
| Social Enterprise Greenhouse | $35,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Pawtucket | $30,100 |
| Feed RI | $18,750 |
| Pawtucket Foundation | $18,000 |
| RI Community Food Bank | $15,250 |
| YMCA of Pawtucket RI | $14,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| American Heart Association Eastern States | $10,441 |
| Tauck Family Foundation | $10,000 |
| McAuley House | $10,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $8,113 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Pawtucket Soup Kitchen | $6,200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Collette Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in RI; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 89 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +36%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +1%
PAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- NFNature Foundation SAone grant, 2020 · $28k
- EPELISHA PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -23%
- TCTOURISM CARES INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +19%
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.
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
End hunger together.
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels of Ri Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tauck Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
108 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. 108 of the 174 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 SOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PACK SHACK ↗
- Who funds Feed RI ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET ↗
- Who funds PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELISHA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TOURISM CARES INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESO LATINO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHIEF EXECUTIVES FOR CORPORATE PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND (AARI) ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Blackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds TAUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PEARLS INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKSTONE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE PARKS NETWORK ↗
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation · Pawtucket Red Sox James J Skeffington Charitable Foundation · Banknewport 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 Collette Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Salem Interfaith Hospitality Network — 25% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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