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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.

$815k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$465kEnvironment$408kHousing & Shelter$325kArts & Culture$195kRecreation & Sports$190kEducation$177kAnimals$155kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $505k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Women's Resource Center$25,000
Family Service of Rhode Island$25,000
Newport Mental Health$25,000
Miriam Hospital$25,000
Strategic Prevention Partnerships INC$25,000
Martin Luther King Community Center$25,000
Bike Newport$25,000
Sail Newport Inc$20,000
Day One$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PARENT SUPPORT NETWORK OF RI: $50k → 7%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $25k → 7%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $25k → 7%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 7%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 7%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 7%Women's Resource Center: $25k → 7%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 7%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 37 repeat orgs$768k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
11

Total granted

$3.0M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+25%

Still filing today

73%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $488k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Foundation
    3× · 2021–2023 · $295k · revenue +55%
  • FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +54%
  • LH
    LUCY'S HEARTH
    4× · 2020–2023 · $165k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • HW
    HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +25%
  • PS
    PARENT SUPPORT NETWORK OF RHODE ISLAND
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +154%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Nami Rhode Island

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…

Health
2
Newport Partnership for Families

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.

Human Services
3
Newport Community School

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.

Education
4
Preserve Rhode Island

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

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…

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6
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
7
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

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…

Health
8
Newport Public Library

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…

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9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
11
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
12
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services of Newport County; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEWPORT MENTAL HEALTH: $190,000 · OtherNEWPORT MENTAL HEALTHIndividual grant recipient: $155,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMOS HOUSE: $100,000 · OtherAMOS HOUSEDR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY: $95,000 · OtherDR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITYIndividual grant recipient: $85,000 · OtherLIFESPAN RECOVERY CENTER: $73,600 · OtherHIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC: $60,000 · OtherSAIL NEWPORT: $65,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc: $88,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc+26 more: $618,440 · Other+26 moreRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $295,000 · HealthRhode Island Hospital…Rhode Island Hospital: $175,000 · HealthRhode Island HospitalNewport Hospital Foundation: $90,000 · HealthNewport Hospital Foun…The Miriam Hospital: $75,000 · HealthThe Miriam HospitalNewport Hospital: $30,000 · HealthStrategic Prevention Partnerships Inc: $25,000 · HealthEmma Pendleton Bradley Hospital: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $115,000 · EnvironmentAQUIDNECK ISLA…SAVE THE BAY INC: $112,500 · EnvironmentSAVE THE BAY I…The Newport Tree Conservancy: $75,000 · EnvironmentThe Newport Tr…BIKE NEWPORT: $75,000 · EnvironmentBIKE NEWPORTecoRI Inc: $60,000 · EnvironmentecoRI IncEASTERN RHODE ISLAND CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $25,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN OCEAN ACCESS INC: $20,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVI…WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $100,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOU…NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $90,000 · Human ServicesNEWPORT COUN…PARENT SUPPORT NETWORK OF RHODE ISLAND: $50,000 · Human ServicesPARENT SUPPO…NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Human ServicesNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT FILM INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT: $40,000 · Arts & CultureRI Slave History Medallions: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLUCY'S HEARTH: $165,000 · Housing & ShelterRHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST: $155,000 · Animals
Other$1,640,040Health$720,000Environment$492,500Human Services$420,000Arts & Culture$190,000Housing & Shelter$175,000Animals$155,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $295,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $165,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH: $165,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST: $155,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $115,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $112,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $100,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNewport Hospital Foundation: $90,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $90,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc: $88,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Newport Tree Conservancy: $75,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIKE NEWPORT: $75,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAIL NEWPORT: $65,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetecoRI Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetPARENT SUPPORT NETWORK OF RHODE ISLAND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDAY ONE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRhode Islanders Sponsoring Education: $40,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNEWPORT FILM INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetRHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT: $40,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetRI Slave History Medallions: $35,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNewport Hospital: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKS SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStrategic Prevention Partnerships Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEmma Pendleton Bradley Hospital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEWPORT SKATEPARK: $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEASTERN RHODE ISLAND CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $25,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCLEAN OCEAN ACCESS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAQUIDNECK COMMUNITY TABLE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSOPHIA ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFABNEWPORT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLINC FOUNDATION INC: $8,439 over 2y, 100% of budgetNEWPORT COUNTY YANA CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetNEWPORT SINGS: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budget
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 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 WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
  • 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 The Miriam Hospital ↗
  • Who funds BIKE NEWPORT ↗
  • 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 DAY ONE ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT FILM INC ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT ↗
  • Who funds RI Slave History Medallions ↗
  • Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Newport Hospital ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗

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.

Van Beuren Charitable…The Rhode Island Comm…Frederick Henry Princ…The Champlin Foundati…Ejmp Fund for Philant…United Way of Rhode I…Newportfed Charitable…Amica Companies Found…Bazarsky Family Found…Alletta Morris McBean…Banknewport Charitabl…The Beacon Foundation
Van Beuren Charitable Foundation IncNY61.4× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gruben Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gruben Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • High Watch Recovery Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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