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Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIRIAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $15,000 |
| JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI | $15,000 |
| JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES | $11,300 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CLASSICAL HS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| INSPIRING MINDS | $10,000 |
| JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI | $7,200 |
| RI JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST ED CTR | $5,000 |
| RI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC | $3,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC | $2,500 |
| PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM | $2,500 |
| PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +7% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- JAJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND4× · 2021–2024 · $172k · revenue +19%
- TMThe Miriam Hospital Foundation3× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +55%
- TSTHE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- HIHATTIE IDE CHAFFEE HOMEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TETEMPLE EMANUELone grant, 2023 · $2k
- CACLASSICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.
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…
Rhode island council for the humanities seeds, supports, and strengthens public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement by and for all rhode islanders.
Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.
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…
Ri chiefs of police gather to share information on new or proposed state laws and maintaining best methods for state's citizens' protection
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…
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
To celabrate the day of portugal in the state of rhode island
The rhode island public health association (ripha) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax-exempt, professional organization that works toward the advancement of public health. ripha is the rhode island affiliate of the american public health…
The rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Blackstone Parks Conservancy. 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 44 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.
28 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. 28 of the 92 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 JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING MINDS ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Libraries of Providence ↗
- Who funds TOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds John Hope Settlement House ↗
- Who funds SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE ↗
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 · The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Ress Family Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation · The Weisberg Family Foundation · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr
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 Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky 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 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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