· Public charity
Employee Community Services Association
Disperse employee contributions to needy community based organizations and to current employees who have experienced a qualifying event.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $104,636 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $336,710 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $232,074 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF RI | $33,136 |
| MS DREAM CENTER | $10,000 |
| TOMORROW FUND | $10,000 |
| MADDIE POTTSS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH | $7,500 |
| ANGELS GIVING BACK | $7,500 |
| CHILDRENS WISH GROUP | $7,500 |
| SECRET ANGELS SOCIETY | $7,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF RI | $6,500 |
| STAND UP FOR ANIMALS | $5,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TTTHE TOMORROW FUND5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +30%
SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +31%- CWCHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND4× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CWCOVENTRY WRESTLING ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $14k
- RIRHODE ISLAND BLOOD CENTERone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +35%
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.
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference
Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…
To promote the art and science of medicine for the betterment of public health and to advocate quality patient care and promote the exchange of information
Our mission is we grant wishes and we provide resources for families that have a child, ages 3-18, struggling with a life-threatening illness living in rhode island, central and southern ma and eastern connecticut.in 2022, our mission…
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
Roger williams medical center's mission is to provide healthcare services in providence, rhode island and surrounding communities.
Rosemarys wish kids, inc. grants wishes to children and young adults age 3 thru 21 who medically qualify with a life-threatening illness living in rhode island and areas of southeastern mass.
As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.
Refocus is a human service agency that serves adults with differing physical and developmental needs. we are an organization of dedicated people offering opportunities for growth in a loving, trusting, and challenging environment. we value…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 27 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 UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds The Maddie Potts Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TOMORROW FUND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds M S DREAM CENTER RI INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS GIVING BACK ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE IZZY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND BLOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND BOY SCOUTS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SARGENT REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
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: Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Navigant Credit Union · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Lifespan Corporation · Feinstein 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 Employee Community Services Association 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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