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Friendship Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS | $10,000 |
| BRISTOL MIDDLE PASSAGE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ON STAGE INC | $10,000 |
| THE WHEELER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE REVOLVE DANCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ACTORS STUDIO OF NEWBURYPORT | $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 (FY17–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
LEADERSHIP RHODE ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +164%
JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +107%- AFARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- BRBALLET RIone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +3%
SOPHIA ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +38%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -17%
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.
Rhode island youth theatre is a non-profit educational theatre company that provides opportunites for youth to explore their interests and develop their theatre skills.
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
The academy of performing arts is an innovative theatrical venue for hands-on learning, creativity, and entertainment for the cape cod community.
The seacoast repertory theatre is a non-profit, professional regional theater located in historic downtown portsmouth, nh. its mission is to entertain, educate and inspire through the power of live theater. this mission is achieved through…
The North Shore Children's Theater provides an inclusive and affordable theater arts education to children in the North Shore of Massachusetts and surrounding areas.
To create high quality theatre with a focus on womens voices. Professional productions, educational programs, and community outreach foster civically engaged audiences and the joy of live theatre.
Studio east creates opportunities for young people to discover and explore the performing arts.
Barrington stage company is a theatre company in the berkshires with a mission to produce top-notch compelling work; to develop new plays and musicals; and to find fresh, bold ways of bringing new audiences into the theatre, especially…
None
Granite state arts academy's educational mission is to nurture creative thinkers, active citizens, and independent learners with a curriculum that integrates the arts and academics.
The mission of Young Dancers in Repertory, Inc. (YDR) is to provide professional training that fosters growth and communication through dance via creative educational arts programming and performances for children, youth and general public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lady Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 26 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 LEADERSHIP RHODE ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Actors Studio of Newburyport Inc ↗
- Who funds On Stage Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds BALLET RI ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Exit Dance Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CRANSTON WEST ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LADY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
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: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Friendship Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Exit Dance Theatre Inc — 100% of income from government
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
- On Stage Inc — 2% of income from government
- Actors Studio of Newburyport Inc — 2% 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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