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Employee Community Services Association

Disperse employee contributions to needy community based organizations and to current employees who have experienced a qualifying event.

$337k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$274kHealth$258kRecreation & Sports$54kPublic Benefit$50kFood & Nutrition$20kAnimals$18kHousing & Shelter$7kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $104,636, the rows itemized in this filing. The $336,710 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $232,074 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$104k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF RI$33,136
MS DREAM CENTER$10,000
MADDIE POTTSS FOUNDATION$10,000
TOMORROW FUND$10,000
ANGELS GIVING BACK$7,500
MAKE A WISH$7,500
CHILDRENS WISH GROUP$7,500
SECRET ANGELS SOCIETY$7,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF RI$6,500
STAND UP FOR ANIMALS$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DREAM FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%HOPE HEALTH: $7k → 14%HOPE HEALTH: $6k → 14%IZZY FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%IZZY FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$420k · 14 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$420k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+13%

Still filing today

93%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TT
    THE TOMORROW FUND
    5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +14%
  • SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +31%
  • CW
    CHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CW
    COVENTRY WRESTLING ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $14k
  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND BLOOD CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +35%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

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…

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2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

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…

Health
4
The Rhode Island Community Foundation

The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference

Philanthropy
5
Rhode Island Kids Count Inc

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…

Youth Development
6
Rhode Island Medical Society

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

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7
A Wish Come True Inc

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…

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8
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc

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…

Health
9
Roger Williams Medical Center Fka Roger Williams Hospital

Roger williams medical center's mission is to provide healthcare services in providence, rhode island and surrounding communities.

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10
Rosemarys Wish Kids Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
12
Refocus Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $184,136 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INCThe Maddie Potts Foundation: $90,000 · PhilanthropyThe Maddie Potts FoundationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $33,908 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY I…CHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND: $30,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF …M S DREAM CENTER RI INC: $30,000 · HealthM S DREAM CENTER RI INCTHE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC: $20,000 · HealthTHE PROVIDENCE CENTER INCMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $15,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $15,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $7,965 · HealthTHE TOMORROW FUND: $50,500 · OtherTHE TOMORROW FUNDSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC: $35,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISL…SECRET ANGELS SOCIETY: $21,500 · OtherSECRET ANGELS SOCIETYCOVENTRY WRESTLING ASSOCIATION: $13,605 · OtherCOVENTRY WRESTLING ASSOCIA…RHODE ISLAND BLOOD CENTER: $10,000 · OtherRHODE ISLAND BLOOD CENTERRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC: $6,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $6,000 · OtherRHODE ISLAND BOY SCOUTS: $6,000 · OtherMAE ORGANIZATION INC: $6,500 · OtherSARGENT REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $6,000 · OtherANGELS GIVING BACK: $28,000 · Public BenefitRUCKSTOPUCKSFOUNDATIONCORPORATION: $5,500 · Public BenefitTHE IZZY FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Human ServicesHOPEHEALTH: $6,500 · Human ServicesHOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $6,000 · Human ServicesRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSTAND UP FOR ANIMALS: $17,500 · Animals
Philanthropy$274,136Health$152,873Other$161,605Public Benefit$33,500Human Services$32,500Food & Nutrition$20,000Animals$17,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $184,136 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Maddie Potts Foundation: $90,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE TOMORROW FUND: $50,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $33,908 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND: $30,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetM S DREAM CENTER RI INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetANGELS GIVING BACK: $28,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND UP FOR ANIMALS: $17,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IZZY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $7,965 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEHEALTH: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAE ORGANIZATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARGENT REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND BOY SCOUTS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Amica Companies Found…The Champlin Foundati…The Rhode Island Comm…United Way of Rhode I…The Beacon FoundationCitizens Charitable F…Harborone Foundation …Textron Charitable Tr…Navigant Credit UnionThe Pfizer Foundation…Lifespan CorporationFeinstein Foundation …
Amica Companies FoundationRI24.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Employee Community Services Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Employee Community Services Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Employee Community Services Association?

    Find your warmest path to Employee Community Services Association through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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