· Private foundation
Feinstein Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 240 grants below total $1,612,722 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,710,147 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $97,425 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k174 grants · $748k
- $10k–50k66 grants · $865k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rhode Island College | $20,000 |
| Birchwood Middle School | $18,500 |
| Northern Lincoln Elementary School | $17,500 |
| Winsor Hill School | $17,500 |
| Cedar Hill Elementary School | $17,500 |
| Ramos Dual Language Academy | $17,500 |
| Raymond C. LaPerche Elementary School | $17,000 |
| Edward S. Rhodes Elementary School | $17,000 |
| Hopkins Hill School | $16,500 |
| Forest Avenue School | $16,500 |
| Gardner Elementary School | $16,500 |
| North Cumberland Middle School | $16,500 |
| Achievement First Providence Elementary | $16,500 |
| Pleasant View School - Narducci Learning Center | $16,000 |
| Scituate Middle School | $16,000 |
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.
200 repeat relationships — 154 still active in FY2023, 46 since wound down; 85 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k 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
- PCPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM4× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +1%
- THTHE HOPE ACADEMY4× · 2017–2023 · $19k · revenue +310%
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- VUVarious under $10,000one grant, 2017 · $222k
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue +21%- PSPaw Sox Foundationone grant, 2017 · $30k
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 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…
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…
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
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…
The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Roger williams medical center's mission is to provide healthcare services in providence, rhode island and surrounding communities.
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
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…
The ocean state animal coalition (osac) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the status and well-being of animals in rhode island.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robert Potter League for Animals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 47 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 361 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Cvs Health Charity Classic Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Navigant Credit Union · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Ocean State Job Lot Charitable 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.
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