· Private foundation
Frederick C Tanner Memorial Fund
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k22 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA-NARRAGANSETT COUNC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CITY MEAL SITE | $5,000 |
| HOPE ALZHEIMER'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| SOPHIA ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| RISE | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE VISIONS | $5,000 |
| HOPE HEALTH | $5,000 |
| INSPIRING MINDS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2026, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2026 · $45k · revenue +200%
SOPHIA ACADEMY8× · 2018–2026 · $39k · revenue +30%
SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- MMMIXED MAGIC THEATREone grant, 2025 · $5k
- TTHUNDERMISTone grant, 2022 · $5k
THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +64%
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.
The mission of the providence children's museum is to inspire and celebrate learning through active play and exploration. the museum welcomes children and adults of all ages and backgrounds and from all communities although its focus is on…
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
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…
The purpose of the organization is to improve outcomes for all students in rhode islands public schools through rigorous, high-quality teacher preparation.
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…
We are peer professionals on a mission to help rhode islanders of all abilities, ages, and backgrounds get the support they need to thrive.
The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…
Using innovative education practices as a catalyst for social change, highlander charter school ensures that all children have the opportunity and support necessary to meet their full potential.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
Our mission is to cultivate a community where students take ownership of their education, preparing them to excel in high school, college, and beyond. we provide a rigorous academic experience that empowers scholars to view themselves as…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mary's Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is The Frosty Drew Memorial Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. 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.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 82 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 COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FROSTY DREW MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ALZHEIMER'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BUTTON HOLE ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ONE ↗
- Who funds READ TO SUCCEED INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIRSTWORKS ↗
- Who funds Prison Dharma Network Inc ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds PAUL CUFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds 134 Collaborative ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING MINDS ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE ↗
- Who funds Community Libraries of Providence ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PARK CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC ↗
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 Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Citizens 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Frederick C Tanner Memorial 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.
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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