· Private foundation
Feinstein Family Fund
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| ST JOSEPHS | $3,500 |
| THORTON SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| ST MARYS | $3,500 |
| THOMAS WILLETT SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| ST JOHN SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| ST LUKES | $3,500 |
| ST CECILIA SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| ST PETER | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| TIOGUE SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| TIVERTON MIDDLE SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| JEWISH COMM DAY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| HOPE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| NORTH SMITHFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 119 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k 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
- WMWAMSUTTA MIDDLE SCHOOL2× · 2020–2021 · $4k
- RSROCKWELL SCHOOL2× · 2020–2021 · $4k
- RSROBERTSON SCHOOL2× · 2020–2021 · $4k
Funded once
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $120k · revenue +17%- RIRHODE ISLAND COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $60k
- SRSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · 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.
The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Personal initiative, perserverance and social responsibility. our facility is committed to differentiated instruction and evidence-based practices that connect academic success to social-emotional learning.
Parent teacher organization
The mission of southside elementary charter school is to provide a diverse group of providence kindergarten through fifth grade students with a solid step towards college and community leadership. students will learn to read, write, think…
The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.
The mission of Polaris Charter School is to create a joyful and exciting learning community for intellectually curious elementary-aged children. Through an engaging, inquiry-based curriculum, our students will develop the ability to…
Kingston hill academy's mission is to operate a "charter school" under the laws of the state of rhode island. kingston hill academy is dedicated to providing students with the opportunity for an inclusive, individualized, and challenging…
A commitment to enhancing and enriching the education of children and fostering a sense of community within the school, classroom and community.
The ensworth school (the school), founded in 1958, is a kindergarten through twelfth grade, coeducational independent school located in nashville, tennessee. the mission of the school is to promote academic excellence and inspire students…
The mission of the greene school is to organize, operate and promote a not-for-profit educational institution in western rhode island that shall emcompass a charter and/or independent school and that shall be at all times operated in…
Portsmouth christian academy exists to honor god joyfully by inspiring students to maximize their god-given potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Highlander Charter School and the most unlike its peers is George R Martin Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 149 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.
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: Feinstein Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Feinstein Family Fund 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.
- Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% 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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