· Private foundation
Horace a & S Ella Kimball 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOY FELLOWSHIPBUILDING ON THE LANE | $60,000 |
| The Jonnycake Center Inc | $50,000 |
| URI FOUNDATION & ALUMNI | $50,000 |
| South County Health | $34,000 |
| St Thomas Episcopal Church | $33,000 |
| Westerly Land Trust | $30,000 |
| THE COMPASS SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| NAEIR Program | $27,500 |
| WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| The Westerly Senior Citizens Center | $20,000 |
| Sojourner House | $15,000 |
| Southern Rhode Island Volunteers | $15,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $15,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Providence | $15,000 |
| Chariho Athletic Association | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- TCTHE COMPASS SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +37%
- TJTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC5× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +157%
THE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FAFellowship Assembly of God- The Buildingone grant, 2020 · $87k
RHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +242%- WSWESTERLY SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2017 · $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.
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…
To promote personal and community enrichment by providing opportunities that enable the reading, writing, making and sharing of books.
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 only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island
To provide quality journalism and compelling storytelling that informs, educates, and inspirescommunity.
The rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
To represent the interests of municipal officials and to provide them services which enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of city and town services through technical assistance, information sharing and training.
To uphold and defend the constitution and laws of the united states and the constitution and laws of rhode island
To operate a public library system in providence, ri. the organization was formed to operate nine neighborhood community libraries. providence community library serves the culturally rich people of providence by adapting to their evolving…
The ywca rhode island provides cultural, educational and recreational programs specifically for women, girls and young children.
The ri association of realtors exists to unite the realtors of this state for the purpose of exerting effectively a combined influence upon matters affecting real estate interests. to enable realtors and others to transact their business…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels of Ri Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pawtucket Slaterettes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 20. 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 — 0.0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 78 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 COMPASS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERLY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Langworthy Public Library ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CLOUDS HILL VICTORIAN HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Wood River Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
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 · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Ashaway Charitable Trust · Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Warren Alpert 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 Horace a & S Ella Kimball 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.
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.