· Private foundation
Gruben 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $505k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rhode Island Hospital | $175,000 |
| Newport Festivals Foundation | $70,000 |
| BrainGate | $50,000 |
| Newport Hospital | $30,000 |
| Norman Bird Sanctuary | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Bike Newport | $25,000 |
| Strategic Prevention Partnerships INC | $25,000 |
| Martin Luther King Community Center | $25,000 |
| Newport Mental Health | $25,000 |
| Women's Resource Center | $25,000 |
| Family Service of Rhode Island | $25,000 |
| Miriam Hospital | $25,000 |
| Day One | $20,000 |
| Sail Newport Inc | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 16 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $488k 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
Rhode Island Hospital Foundation3× · 2021–2023 · $295k · revenue +11%
FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC4× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +54%- LHLUCY'S HEARTH4× · 2020–2023 · $165k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- HWHIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +25%
- PSPARENT SUPPORT NETWORK OF RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%
- RIRHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +154%
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 mission of NAMI Rhode Island is to educate the public about mental illness; to offer resources and support to all whose lives are touched by mental illness; to advocate at every level to ensure the rights and dignity of those with…
To develop and maintain a coordinated network of collaborating partners that measurably strengthens families and enhances the quality of life in the city of newport, middletown, and more broadly newport county, ri.
Newport community school provides educational opportunities to complement classroom learning and support academic success, personal responsibility and economic self-sufficiency in a vibrant engaged commmunity.
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 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…
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…
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
The mission of the Newport Public Library: To bring people, ideas, and information for the good of every individual and the community it services. The library aims to be a leading resource for information and the center for lifelong…
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…
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…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services of Newport County and the most unlike its peers is Linc Foundation Inc. 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 33 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 65 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 Rhode Island Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds THE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc ↗
- Who funds The Newport Tree Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BIKE NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ecoRI Inc ↗
- Who funds PARENT SUPPORT NETWORK OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FILM INC ↗
- Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ↗
- Who funds RI Slave History Medallions ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL 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: Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Champlin Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Newportfed Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Bazarsky Family Foundation · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beacon Foundation
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 Gruben 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- High Watch Recovery Center 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.