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Grace K and Wesley S Alpert Charitable 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of Grace K and Wesley S Alpert Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Rhode Island Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $503k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $1,075,000 |
| The Miriam Hospital Foundation | $250,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND SPCA | $200,000 |
| BROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE | $110,300 |
| JEWISH COLLABORATION SERVICES | $92,350 |
| Temple Beth-El | $50,000 |
| CHABAD OF SARASOTA | $50,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| FIRST WORKS | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| Child Protection Center | $15,000 |
| NMA ROWING BOOSTER CLUB | $10,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $5,000 |
| MD Anderson Cancer Center | $5,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $4,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $796k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $516k 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
- BEBROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $276k · revenue +21%
- TTTHE TOMORROW FUND4× · 2018–2022 · $200k · revenue +63%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc5× · 2018–2023 · $180k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES OF RIone grant, 2018 · $515k
- NLNYU LANGONE HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $75k
- ATAMERICAN TECH SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $50k
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 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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
NHF supports, encourages and coordinates the development of comprehensive, integrated health care-related services for the advancement and well-being of the community, in furtherance of the purposes of Newport Hospital (see Schedule O)
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Henry C Lord Scholarship Fd. 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 88 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 THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TOMORROW FUND ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Team Noah Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD SAILING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NEWBURGH ROWING CLUB ↗
- Who funds FIRSTWORKS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds Bronxcare New Directions Fund ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION 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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353
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 Grace K and Wesley S Alpert Charitable 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice Inc — 0% 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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