· Private foundation
Fred M Roddy 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $281k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $354k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Providence College | $100,000 |
| Hope Health Community VNA | $100,000 |
| Rhode Island Free Clinic | $53,125 |
| South County Hospital Healthcare System Endowment | $50,564 |
| Mathewson S United Methodist Church | $50,000 |
| McAuley Ministries | $49,964 |
| Wolf School | $48,923 |
| Connecting for Childern and Families | $40,000 |
| North Kingston Food Pantry | $39,740 |
| The Literacy Center | $30,000 |
| Attleboro-Norton Social Responsibility Alliance CO YMCA | $25,000 |
| Interfaith Counseling Center | $25,000 |
| Pawtucket Soup Kitchen | $12,000 |
| Meeting Street | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k 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
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE4× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +42%- BUBRYANT UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2024 · $303k · revenue +28%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $235k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- BABrown Alpert Medical Schoolone grant, 2020 · $144k
- AYATTLEBORO YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue 0%
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGNone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +11%
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…
Roger williams medical center's mission is to provide healthcare services in providence, rhode island and surrounding communities.
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 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 provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Care new england is devoted to continually improving the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.
Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pace Organization of Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Attleboro Area Industrial Museum 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 48 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 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH COMMUNITY VNA INC ↗
- Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Literacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds ATTLEBORO YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds ATTLEBORO AREA INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds BUTLER HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOLF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds STURDY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 134 Collaborative ↗
- Who funds PACE ORGANIZATION OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRODEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
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 · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Beacon Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Warren Alpert 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 Fred M Roddy Foundation Inc 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% 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.