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Feinstein Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2023
240
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$6.8MArts & Culture$47kRecreation & Sports$36kHealth$17kFood & Nutrition$17kReligion$15kAnimals$13kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2023 · 240 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 240 grants below total $1,612,722, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,710,147 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $97,425 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k174 grants · $748k
  • $10k–50k66 grants · $865k
$6,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rhode Island College$20,000
Birchwood Middle School$18,500
Winsor Hill School$17,500
Ramos Dual Language Academy$17,500
Northern Lincoln Elementary School$17,500
Cedar Hill Elementary School$17,500
Edward S. Rhodes Elementary School$17,000
Raymond C. LaPerche Elementary School$17,000
Forest Avenue School$16,500
Gardner Elementary School$16,500
North Cumberland Middle School$16,500
Achievement First Providence Elementary$16,500
Hopkins Hill School$16,500
Scituate Middle School$16,000
Pleasant View School - Narducci Learning Center$16,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 200 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

200
76

Total granted

$6.2M
$589k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+113%

Still filing today

6%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23
HealthAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • PC
    PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    4× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +1%
  • TH
    THE HOPE ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2023 · $19k · revenue +310%
  • RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • VU
    Various under $10,000
    one grant, 2017 · $222k
  • ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue +21%
  • PS
    Paw Sox Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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.

03Its 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
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
2
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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3
The Alumni Association of the University of Rhode Island

The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.

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4
Roger Williams University School of Law

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…

Education
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
Providence Preparatory Charter School

The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.

Education
7
Rhode Island Health Care Assoc

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…

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8
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
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
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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11
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
12
Ocean State Animal Coalition

The ocean state animal coalition (osac) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the status and well-being of animals in rhode island.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robert Potter League for Animals Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 361 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rhode Island College: $270,000 · OtherVarious under $10,000: $221,948 · Other+192 more: $6,069,432 · Other+192 moreROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $46,000 · EducationTHE HOPE ACADEMY: $19,421 · EducationKINGSTON HILL ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationNUESTRO MUNDO PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $12,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $40,000 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $13,250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$6,561,380Education$92,421Arts & Culture$40,000Food & Nutrition$13,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $46,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOPE ACADEMY: $19,421 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKINGSTON HILL ACADEMY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCollege Unbound: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $13,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNUESTRO MUNDO PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI46.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.
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Find your warmest path to Feinstein Foundation Inc 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 361 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.6M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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