· 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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k27 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SAKONNET LIGHTHOUSE | $5,000 |
| UNITED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST ANDREWS BY THE SEA | $5,000 |
| KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| LITTLE COMPTON HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SCHOLARSHIP LITTLE COMPTON | $2,000 |
| SAKONNET PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $1,500 |
| LITTLE COMPTON AGRICULTURAL CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| THE HAVEN UPPER VALLEY | $1,000 |
| THE SEEING EYE | $1,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| LITTLE COMPTON WELLNESS CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Gpb Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in RI; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
LINCOLN SCHOOL4× · 2019–2022 · $105k · revenue +24%- FOFRIENDS OF SAKONNET LIGHTHOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +73% · 36% of their budget
- SAStay at Home in Little Compton Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +21%
Funded once
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +95%- NCNORWICH COMMUNITY NURSEone grant, 2020 · $1k
- LCLITTLE COMPTON TOWN TREASURERone grant, 2020 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Restoration of and maintenance of a healthy population of loons and to monitor the health and productivity of loon populations and promotion of a greater understanding of loons and the natural world.
The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAKONNET LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Stay at Home in Little Compton Inc ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Little Compton Food Bank ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The Sakonnet Preservation Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Scholarship Little Compton ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Little Compton Community Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds VIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gpb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gpb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc: 17% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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