Rhode Island · Private foundation
Gpb 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.
- $84k
- Granted FY2021
- 29
- Grants FY2021
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Gpb Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Gpb Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $84k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2021
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 29
- FY2019 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 7
- Total assets, FY2021
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 37% of the organizations Gpb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 27 | $74k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $104k | 59% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $55k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln School | $105,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Sakonnet Lighthouse Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 36% |
| United Congregational Church | $31,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Kimball Union Academy | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Stay at Home in Little Compton Inc | $12,500 | 7 | 1% |
| St Lawrence University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Little Compton Food Bank | $8,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Upper Valley Land Trust Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Sakonnet Preservation Association Inc | $6,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Scholarship Little Compton | $4,500 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gpb Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Weatherlow Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Help for People Foundation · Barrette Family Fund · The Vermont Community Foundation · Ud Hpb Foundation · Higgins Family Foundation · The Chase Family Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gpb Foundation
- How much does Gpb Foundation give?
- Gpb Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $83,500 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
- What does Gpb Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (49%), Education (26%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Gpb Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lincoln School ($105k), Friends of Sakonnet Lighthouse Inc ($50k), United Congregational Church ($32k).
- Does Gpb Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gpb Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gpb Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Weatherlow Foundation, Mutual of America Foundation.
- Where is Gpb Foundation based?
- Gpb Foundation is based in RI.
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